Do I need a Japanese transit visa when arriving at Narita and departing from Haneda?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 21 Jul, 2023
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Old post, but for posterity:
You do not need a transit visa if there aren’t any possible connections for your itinerary on the same day and you arrive and depart from an airport within the same region.
In this case, by presenting your passport and connecting boarding pass or e-ticket, you get an entry stamp on arrival permitting you to stay in Japan for 72 hours.
From Timatic, the database used by airlines:
Holders of onward tickets transiting to a third country can
obtain a Shore Pass on arrival for a max. stay of 72 hours
only if there are no connecting flights on the same calendar
day
Narita and Haneda are located in the same region (called “group” in Timatic)
Group A:
Airports: Narita (NRT), Haneda (HND), Nagoya (NGO), Niigata
(KIJ), Komatsu (KMQ) and Yokota.
So again, you do not need a visa
There seems to be a regulation (cited here and here, but I could not find an authoritative source) saying that you can get a “transit pass” for exactly this purpose.
But to be on the safe side, I would get a transit visa anyway – link is to the Japanese embassy in India, and it sounds like it is relatively cheap and easy to get.
Credit:stackoverflow.com‘
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