Just arrived in Haneda and looking forward to starting my Japan vacation. Weather seems cooler than I expected which is nice, hope it lasts.
Thought I’d share my general experience and give two tips:
1) my arrival was 3pm on a weekday. Customs was pretty crowded (and slightly chaotic). Took 2 hours to get through customs, and that was probably because I filled up the visit Japan web form beforehand.
2) Definitely fill up your visit Japan web form before your trip. Having the form filled and the generated QR ready saves you time and frustration. You don’t have to crowd around kiosks trying to fill in tiny arrival and custom declaration forms. Your single QR code will work for both the arrival computer and the customs declaration computer. There was surprisingly a lot of people who didn’t seem to know this at customs.
by TheDoorDoesntWork