It appears that as of Oct. 11th (ie, Tuesday) the rules regarding tourist travel to Japan have changed. My understanding if that as of the 11th (or perhaps 12th) you can
- assuming you're from a "blue" country
- assuming you have a full 3+ injections covid vax
it's perfectly fine to just arrive in Japan ("as in the old days") with no visa, and, you can stay as a tourist for awhile.
However, I actually called a couple different airlines and ... they didn't have a clue about this :/ Which is not encouraging.
Airline experts, could it be that this information is perhaps not yet on Timatic? Or?
Does any one happen to know,
in fact if one can fly visa-free to Japan (after the 11th) is there an electronic-visa type arrangement? Or do you literally just roll up to Haneda with a (blue country) passport and you can visit?
does anyone know why, apparently, the "11th" change seems unknown to airlines, as of yet? (Of course, it could have just been a rare snafu w/ the agents I talked to, as always can happen.)
Addendum. As of early Nov (2022), this seems to be fixed.
Just for the sake of anyone actually flying, I added this addendum.
It was definitely not-fixed for three weeks. Incredible!
