Japanese passport
Lucky Nomads Passport Index
LN Passport score
47.56
Global rank
#66
Pure mobility
89.2
Score breakdown
Access weighted by livability
71.78
Access weighted by how livable each reachable destination is, with longer stays counting for more.
Residence rights
2.22
The freedom to live and work somewhere permanently, not just visit.
Tax friendliness
17.4
How the home country taxes its citizens, including worldwide taxation of citizens abroad.
Optionality and freedom
80.6
Governance, rule of law and openness of the home country.
Free-movement destinations: 1. Visa-free or no-prior-visa destinations: 173.
Where this passport can go
Live and work freely (1)
- Svalbard
Visa-free (142)
- Albania
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Bonaire
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Falkland Islands
- Faroe Islands
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- French Polynesia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Iran
- Ireland
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Kazakhstan
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lesotho
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macao
- Malaysia
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia (Federated States of)
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- Nicaragua
- Niue
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Oman
- Palestinian Territories
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Islands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Romania
- Saba
- Saint Barthelemy
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Saint-Martin (French part)
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Uruguay
- US Virgin Islands
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Wallis and Futuna
- Zambia
Visa on arrival (14)
- Bangladesh
- Cape Verde
- Comoros
- Guinea-Bissau
- Lebanon
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Palau
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Timor-Leste
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
Electronic travel authorization (16)
- Alderney
- Australia
- Canada
- Guernsey
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Jersey
- Kenya
- Mozambique
- New Zealand
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Sark
- Seychelles
- Sri Lanka
- United Kingdom
- United States
eVisa (47)
- Ascension
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Guinea
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mauritania
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena
- Saudi Arabia
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tristan da Cunha
- Uganda
- Zimbabwe
Visa required (14)
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Central African Republic
- Eritrea
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Liberia
- Mali
- Nauru
- Niger
- Republic of the Congo
- Sudan
- Turkmenistan
- Yemen
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Researched from official sources, leading global indices and Lucky Nomads' own scoring.