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Custom Procedures For Visitors

1. As a visitor to Japan you are required to make a written declaration about your belongings. Personal effects that are for personal use are all free of duties and /or taxes, if quantitatively they are considered appropriate and not for sale.

• Two copies of a written declaration are required, if you have unaccompanied baggage.
• If you are carrying cash or other means of payment "Checks, Travelers Checks, Promissory Notes, Securities", exceeding 1,000,000 yen, you are required to declare to Customs.
• Customs Declaration Forms are available on the plane, the ship, or at Customs. ​

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Japanese Banknotes

2. The green and red channel system: Please choose either the green channel or the red channel.

• The green channel is for passengers who have no goods subject to duty and/or tax and goods not prohibited or restricted for import.
• The red channel is for all other passengers.

Please pay duties and/or taxes at the bank in the Customs inspection zone. When the value of the dutiable goods exceeds three hundred thousand yen "300,000 yen", Customs procedures for commercial cargo are required.
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Departure Lobby Of Tokyo Narita Airport

Duty-Free/Tax - Free Allowance

1. Alcohol Beverages 3 Bottles "760ml/bottle"
2. Tobacco "Non-Resident"  

• 400 cigarettes, or
• 100 cigars, or
• 500 grams of other tobacco products

3. Perfume 2 ounces "56.699 Grams​"
4. Others  ￥200,000 "Total of Overseas Market Value"

Kansai International Airport Duty Free Shop

Tax-Free Products In Japan

When you purchase articles at specified Tax-Free Shops, consumption tax on those articles may be exempted on condition that they are taken out of Japan.

When you purchase tax-free articles, you will be required to present your passport at the shop and you will receive a card entitled "Record of Purchase of Consumption-Tax-Exempt for Export", which will be attached to your passport. Articles purchased tax free will be checked with the card by a Customs officer, who will collect the card at the time of your departure from Japan.
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Akihabara - Tokyo

Customs and Tariff Bureau - Ministry of Finance, 3-1-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo