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My situation is at follows:

I plan to visit Beijing for 3 days, then go to Japan and then go back to Europe. The thing is, on my trip from Japan back to Europe, I have to do a transfer in Beijing again.

I just want to be sure this won't be a problem. I'm asking because I read that when using the 72 hours visa, you cannot use it to go from Beijing to a place outside China and then back to China...

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The 72 Hour Transit Visa is applicable when you fly from country A to country B via one of the authorized airports in China and wish to stop over. To the best of my knowledge there are no restrictions prohibiting doing it again on the return journey.

There are restrictions if you have separate tickets, ie: London to Beijing and then a separate Beijing to Tokyo ticket.

There are also restrictions on flying to the same country as you originated, ie: you couldn't fly from Chicago to Beijing stay for 72 hours and then fly to New York, using the transit visa.

But it sounds like you are just transiting on the way back (staying in the airport and simply changing planes), in which case you don't enter China so no visas are necessary.