China passport and American visa transit Japan.

According to Japanese regulations, you need to transfer at Japan International Airport with a joint air ticket or a boat ticket. If you don't need to stay overnight, you don't need to apply for a transit visa or other types of entry visas. If you need to stay overnight, you need an entry/transit visa according to whether the airport is open 24 hours a day.

Therefore, whether you need to apply for a visa to transfer to another school in Japan depends on the following two conditions:

1. Do you have a connecting ticket?

Connecting ticket generally refers to the one-time ticket issued by the airline, and the flight from A to B. By default, the official divides the flight into several segments. There is only one order number for the connecting ticket. Therefore, if you bought the ticket separately, it is not a joint ticket.

Generally speaking, tourists with joint air tickets only move in the international transit zone, do not enter the transit country, and do not need to pick up their checked baggage through the customs, so they generally do not need to apply for a transit country visa.

2. Is the transit airport open 24 hours a day?

According to the announcement of the China Embassy in Japan, among the many entry ports in Japan, except Haneda Airport and Kansai Airport, popular airports such as Narita Airport, Central Airport, Fukuoka Airport and Naha Airport will be closed in the middle of the night, and transit tourists are prohibited from staying overnight in the waiting hall.

Therefore, even if there is a joint ticket, if the flight interval is long and it needs to stay overnight, and the airport is not open 24 hours a day, you must enter Japan, which means you must apply for an entry/transit visa. Otherwise, the tourists will be arranged by the security company to spend the night in the designated hotel, and will be escorted by the security company to check in and leave, and they cannot leave the hotel during this period. All expenses are borne by tourists.