Timid signals from Japan: goodbye pre-start test from Sept. 7
Summer 2022 was the first that saw the world free to travel anywhere, or almost anywhere. Between the spring [...]
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Summer 2022 was the first that saw the world free to travel again everywhere, or almost everywhere. Between spring and the beginning of the peak season, the remaining travel restrictions fell away, and today people are back to moving more or less freely, especially if vaccinated.
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On the map of the few destinations still off limits is China, Hong Kong and Japan. Actually, the Rising Sun nation would also be open to tourists, but we are talking only about quota travel and for group trips run by tour operators. Translated a few hundred tourists arrived in Tokyo Since this possibility has been open.
In the meantime, however, the Japanese are free to go wherever they want, except for having to undergo, like all residents of Japan and those with regular visas, a pre-departure swab. A PCR test to be done in the 72h prior to travel.
Beginning next September 7, however, this obligation will lapse for all travelers who have completed the vaccination cycle and also received the booster dose. The announcement came from the prime minister, the removal to the number of passengers, 20 thousand, who are allowed to enter Japan from abroad each day was also expected, and especially many hoped the announcement on the reactivation of visa on arrival for all tourists would also come.
At present, however, restrictions remain in place, tourist visas must be applied for at embassies, and travel for tourists must mandatorily go through tour operators.
