My mom wants to visit me for a week (I’ve lived in Japan for 7 years and have a work visa). I am renting a small apartment here, is it possible for my mom to list this apartment as her place of stay? Not for the visa application, she already has a tourist visa (she visited Japan as a tourist earlier this year – we booked a hotel, described the detailed trip etc) but for the paper you fill in on the plane, I forgot what it’s called.
Am I gonna get in trouble for this or should we book a hotel? My mom wants to stay as close to me as possible, but there aren’t many hotels where I live.
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I think you need to look at your rental agreement if she is allowed to stay.
You should be fine, as it’s short and not permanent. By the time anyone might even notice, the week will be over. She can put your address on the card, and if anyone does happen to ask about it, she should just say she’s staying with her kid.
Hi. I think you are thinking way too deeply into this as far as the airport and immigration go. No one at the airport or immigration is going to think twice about the address she puts down. If they were to ask where the address is (highly unlikey) she should answer that it is her son’s place of residence.
The only “trouble” you might have is with your landlord if your contract specifically says no guests, but really, I’d be super surprised if anything would come of it. It’s your mother after all. Probably best to follow the “dont ask for permission, beg for forgiveness” approach.
Relax 🙂
From an immigration standpoint, this is fine. Immigration doesn’t care. The government will be okay with you doing this.
Your landlord may or may not care.
Visitors are supposed to write down where they are going to stay during their visit. If your mother is staying at your residence, use that address.
You are fine. Openly write that address. No one in Japan minds your mom visiting you for a week. They are even relieved that she is there to prevent your constant drinking and loud parties. 😄
Yes. My mom also stayed in my apartment before for a week. You’ll have no problem if it’s just for visits. The only time you’ll be in trouble is if your mom or any other person stayed in your house indefinitely and illegally.
I also stayed before on my girlfriend’s family’s house before for a week as well and I had zero issues. I literally wrote their address and they never asked anything about it since airbnb is also a thing in Japan.
We’ve had about ten guests come visit us this year and stayed a combined ten weeks. They listed our house as the address on the entry form and it was totally fine. Visitors are allowed to stay with friends and family and aren’t required to stay in a hotel when visiting another country.
Mom visit , you’re cool. Don’t worry.
Hosted my niece and her high school friend for 12 days in Tokyo. It’s not an issue unless you openly go around talking about it with your conservative neighbors who may/may not snitch on you to the landlord or real estate company. Keep it hush hush and at a moderate level.
Just make sure she has an address to write down.
No need to worry about trouble with immigration.mine visit often and lives with me
Write down wherever she’s actually staying. Don’t lie about where she’s staying. You won’t get in trouble with immigration or anything unless you lie, the only people you would possible have trouble with are your landlord or your neighbours, especially if you’re in a complex with only tiny wooden 1k/1dk apartments or whatever where it’s reasonably assumed everybody will be living alone and they won’t have to hear talking and noise from 2 people for hours on end.
The airport could not care less. For 99% of tourists, the address becomes obsolete within 2 days anyway after they change hotels
My parents also came for a week or two and stayed at my place, no problem.
I cleared it with the landlord before they arrived, which wasn’t an issue, but as long as you don’t have crazy parties and disturb neighbors no one is gonna give you any issues.
Those forms generally are just in case there is some incident and want to track you down. The forms go in a big bin and stay there unless needed.
That’s the same for 90% of the world
You could jot down an address that is located under a bridge and immigration wouldn’t care.
They just want to make sure people are not being trafficked so if they don’t know where they are going or staying that is a red flag.
Not a problem. Lots of people have stayed with me. I have never asked the landlord.
They don’t care about the address. The purpose is like if there was an Ebola outbreak that happened on that flight, then they want to track down everyone and follow where they went
Yes.
Yeah, this should be completely fine so don’t worry. I have had countless guys come and stay with me at my apartment, both when they travel from abroad and if they live here.
My parents came for two weeks in may and put my house as place of stay no problems
What an absurd thing to ask.
Of course it is!
If the police get wind of your mother coming to visit and staying with you, it’s straight to the detention center for both of you, followed by deportation.
You see, according to ancient Japanese traditional law, if one’s relatives come to visit, it is highly dependent on which of the four unique seasons they come in, whether or not the family member can use chopsticks, and if their Japanese is jozu enough.
You don’t want to upset the wa now do you OP?
Didn’t think so. Dame. Zettai.
I guess nobody even reads that, I googled and wrote down any hotel name in tokyo as address, never had a problem, nobody will go check that whether someone stays in this certain hotel really