The Land of the Rising Sun today can compete with the leading tourist destinations in terms of the number of visits per year. Despite its geographical proximity, Japan belongs to the far abroad, where Russians and CIS citizens can only stay with a visa.
Instructions
Step 1
The basis for issuing and obtaining a visa is a written appeal to the consular department of the Japanese Embassy in Moscow or the Japanese Consulate General in Russia located in St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk or Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk with the simultaneous provision of the necessary documents.
Step 2
Russian citizens entering Japan can obtain, depending on the reasons for the trip, two types of visas - a short-term one-time visa (for a period not exceeding three months) and a short-term reusable one for the same period. The reasons for short-term visits can be cultural and sports exchanges, business trips to exchange experiences of local government representatives, conferences, negotiations, meetings with relatives, tourist trips and transit.
Step 3
Multiple short-term visas are issued to business travelers, employees of enterprises listed at the Embassy and Consulates General of Japan in Russia, as well as prominent representatives of science, culture and art. If there is an invitation, Japanese legislation also obliges the inviting party and the guarantor to prepare the necessary documents.
Step 4
It can take from four to thirty days to obtain a visa. Tourist and transit visas are issued within fifteen days. Upon receipt of a visa, its recipient is warned about the inadmissibility of activities in Japan related to obtaining income and remuneration. The peculiarities of a transit visa allow a foreigner to stay only in Tokyo or its environs for no more than 72 hours, subject to a flight through Japan to a third country, when there is no possibility of a non-stop flight from Moscow.
