petina wrote:
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Blue33d wrote:
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craig wrote:
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Tourists from most countries (but not all!!) can usually get a 3 month tourist visa on arrival in Japan.
Most other visas must be applied for and approved before arrival in Japan.
If you have any more questions or information about tourists visas to Japan please post them here.
For one, Japan doesn't issue 90 day visas, nor tourist visa to most nations. This minimum is generally six months.
Also, I don't know of any visa that can't be applied for from within Japan. There are what? 20 visas that you can apply for in Japan? What visas must be applied for outside of the country?
No, you are right.
It is a 90 day permit to be in Japan that they issue to tourists.
I guess calling it a tourist visa makes it easier to put in a sentence and easier for others to understand...
Well, it's for more than just tourism(business, visits[relatives], etc.), and it's an exemption from a visa. So to call it the 2 opposites of what it really is sounds a bit confounding to me.
Calling a visa exemption a "tourist visa" causes such lines of questions as "do I need to have my tourist visa before I leave my country?" and so on. Then it needs to be explained it's not really a visa. Just a bunch of trouble if you ask me.
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