The Japan eVisa surprises people at the wrong moment: there is no sticker, no stamp, nothing glued into your passport. The visa lives online, and at the check-in counter in India you prove it by displaying the Visa issuance notice live from the JAPAN eVISA website on your phone. Japan's foreign ministry is blunt about the rules - PDF data, screenshots and printed copies are not accepted. Not the approval email either; the notice is a page you open fresh, with working internet, in front of the airline staff. That one requirement drives the whole airport routine. Charge your phone fully and carry a power bank, because a dead phone is now a visa problem. Make sure you will have internet at the terminal - a working data pack, not a hope that airport wifi cooperates. Log in and open the live notice before you join the check-in queue, so the page is loaded and ready. Keep the same passport beside it, since the notice ties to that passport number. The eVisa itself covers a single entry for short-term tourism of up to 90 days, applied through VFS in India, and the embassy also warns about look-alike fraud websites - use only the official JAPAN eVISA site linked from the embassy or the foreign ministry. On the trips we run, this is part of the airport routine we walk our travellers through the night before departure - notice loaded, phone charged, documents in one folder - the same quiet checklist our team uses for every batch we host.
A Miranda House graduate and lawyer who traded courtrooms for slow travel. Cheshta travels with the batches we host ourselves, with a soft spot for travelling alongside elders.
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