Do I need a visa to get a cruise passport?

Cruise has now become a very fashionable way to travel. Sailing on the vast sea for a few days will make you feel the charm of the vast Wang Yang. There are many different experiences and games in the process, so do you need a visa before the cruise leaves? The following is a detailed analysis and introduction.

On the list of visas issued by various countries this year, we can be pleasantly surprised to find that the number of countries and regions granting visa-free access to China and landing visa has increased to 94, of which 3 1 in Asia alone. However, Japan's name can't be found on the list of Asia, and even Jeju Island in South Korea has already opened. Why is there no place in Japan? Do I still need to apply for a visa to travel to Japan? Actually, you don't need a visa to travel to Japan on an international luxury cruise.

Now you only need to bring a valid passport to Japan by international luxury cruise. At present, the business volume of major international cruise companies in China is not small, and the cruise companies have applied to the Japanese authorities for visa exemption and obtained approval. So now everyone takes a cruise to Japan for sightseeing, which completely saves the trouble of getting a visa. Compared with the traditional entry process that requires a visa, it seems really convenient to travel to Japan by cruise.

But there is no need to apply for a visa, but it should be noted that all passengers on the cruise ship must have returned to the cruise ship before each departure. Although the seemingly simple sentence "return to the ship on time", there are often tourists who fail to return to the ship on time. It is conceivable that the impact will be enormous. Therefore, for the safety of their own lives and for the time node of cruise ship work, everyone must pay attention to this problem.

Several major cruise companies operating in China market have similar routes to Japan, such as Shanghai to Fukuoka, Okinawa, Ishigaki Island, Kobe, Nagasaki, Kanazawa, Kagoshima, Maizuru and so on. Then they went back to Shanghai, and some of them started from Japanese cities such as Tianjin, Xiamen, Zhoushan, Hong Kong and Guangzhou. The whole cruise usually lasts about four or five days, which is really a convenient way to travel in Japan. Most importantly, you don't need a visa, just a passport.

As for passport processing, it is very simple. Now, citizens can apply for identity cards at the entry-exit permit office of the local public security bureau. Especially now, with more convenient and diversified ways such as online booking in advance and Alipay payment, passport processing becomes easier.

It depends on which country the cruise ship goes to and which country it goes to. If the departure port and destination port of your cruise ship are both abroad, then at least you need to get the visas of the departure country and the destination country of the cruise ship and stop at the port. You don't need a visa until you get off the boat. If you need to disembark, the country will sign the China passport and apply for a visa.

For example, if you go to a port in Italy to take a cruise on the Mediterranean route, you must apply for multiple Schengen visas in advance to enter Italy, otherwise you can't even get on the plane to Italy. If you stay at a port in a non-Schengen country, you should also consult the relevant parties and apply for a visa in advance according to their visa-free policy.

If you want to go to Singapore for a cruise, you must apply for a Singapore visa at least. If you want to disembark when the cruise ship stops at a port in Malaysia or Thailand, you can apply for a visa when you arrive in Malaysia or Thailand. If the cruise ship finally returns to Singapore, your Singapore visa must also be multiple round trips.

Cruise ships departing from the United States on Caribbean routes only need multiple round-trip visas from the United States. Cruise ships on Alaska routes will call at Canadian ports even if they leave from American ports. Therefore, the US-Canada visa must be handled properly.

Let's focus on whether a cruise ship departing from China's home port needs a visa. At present, Japan is the largest destination for cruise ships departing from China's home port.

It is inevitable to go to Japan to sign a China passport. Generally speaking, you need a visa to go to Japan. I remember 12 years ago, I spent several days preparing a lot of visa information to go to Japan by cruise, just to land in Nagasaki for four hours. After thinking about it, it's really not worth the loss, not worth it.

In order to attract more tourists to Japan by cruise, Japan began to implement the ship sightseeing landing permit system on March 15. Foreign tourists can enter Japan for sightseeing without a visa at the port of call as long as they take the passenger ship designated by the Japanese Minister of Justice in advance, but they must return before the passenger ship leaves Hong Kong.

In other words, as long as your cruise ship is on the list of passenger ships designated by the Japanese Minister of Justice, you can take this ship to Japan without a visa.

As far as I know, at present, all cruise ships departing from China's home port are visa-free, including Royal Caribbean, Costa Cruises, Novozhen Cruises, Princess Cruises, MSC Cruises, Star Cruises and China Tianhai Cruises.

Convenient visa-free measures have brought a large number of cruise tourists to Japan. A cruise ship, ranging from 2,000 to 4,000 people, is vast, and Japanese businessmen who call at the port earn a lot of money. I have been to Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Yokohama, Osaka, Shimizu, Kagoshima, Naha and other Japanese port cities without a visa.

In addition, cruise ships to Jeju, Busan and Incheon ports in South Korea are all visa-free (but at present, cruise ships basically do not go to Korean ports).

At present, China citizens need a visa to go to the Philippines by cruise. If you book tickets through a travel agency, the travel agency can apply for a visa. If you have any valid visa for Schengen, Australia, the United States, Canada or Japan (it must be valid), you can stay in the Philippines for 7 days without a visa.

China citizens who travel by cruise to Vietnamese ports also need to apply for visas. If you board the ship through a travel agency, the travel agency will directly apply for the landing visa of the Vietnamese team on the cruise ship.

If Chinese mainland residents go to Hong Kong by cruise, or stay in Hong Kong by cruise, they need to bring their passports, Hong Kong and Macao passes and make Hong Kong endorsements.