2024-01-25 11:00:05
Real-time Center/Reported by Lin Gengyu
Attention travelers planning to go to Hokkaido! Starting from February, the Japanese government will dispatch “immigration inspectors” to Taoyuan Airport to implement “pre-clearance” immigration inspections for people flying to 10 specific airports in Hokkaido and the Tohoku region; passengers who have completed the inspection process will fly to their destination. You can quickly clear the level following landing. The new system will be implemented on a trial basis for one month. If the results are good, expansion will not be ruled out in the future.
Prior review! In the future, Taiwanese may save more time and effort when traveling to 10 airports including Hokkaido and Tohoku; because according to “Traicy”, Japan’s largest self-guided travel news mediareportthe Japanese government will dispatch “Immigration Inspectors” to our Taoyuan Airport starting from February. Passengers will be able to go through immigration inspection, identity confirmation and other procedures at the Taoyuan Airport first. When the plane arrives at the destination, they only need to confirm their identity and get stamped once more. You can clear customs quickly, saving regarding 30 minutes to 1 hour.
At present, the 10 pre-clearance airports selected by Japan for trial operation are Hakodate, Asahikawa, Akita, Sendai, Hanamaki, Yamagata, Fukushima, Niigata, Komatsu and Takamatsu Airport.
Jun Oizumi, Mayor of Hakodate, Hokkaido, Hiroshi Kimizuka, Minister of Immigration, and Kyoharu Azumachi, Director of the Aviation Network of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, explained this new policy at a press conference held in Tokyo; currently, 10 regional airports as trial targets; if the implementation results are good, the deadline will not be ruled out in the future, and the list of applicable airports will be expanded to make it more convenient for Taiwanese tourists to travel to Japan.
According to statistics from the Japan Tourism Bureau, Taiwanese people visited Japan as many as 4.202 million times in 2023, making it the second largest source of tourists, second only to South Korea.
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