{"id":4756,"date":"2010-02-26T05:01:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T12:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4756"},"modified":"2010-02-26T05:04:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T12:04:48","slug":"trip-to-china-postponed-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/trip-to-china-postponed-10-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to China &#8211; postponed 10 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m supposed to be in China right now. The only problem is I found out as I was checking in at the Haneda Airport in Tokyo this morning that an American Citizen with a U.S. passport can&#8217;t go to China without a <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/all-my-bags-are-packed-im-ready-to-go\/>visa<\/a>. Live and learn. I&#8217;ve been to 12 countries outside of the USA in the past six years and none of them required a visa for short stays so I didn&#8217;t even think to look it up. Also, someone in China handled all of my travel plans so I figured if I needed anything (like a visa) they would let me know. They were as surprised as I was when I wasn&#8217;t allowed to board the plane today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/USPassportVisaMapWorldChina.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/USPassportVisaMapWorldChina-800x350.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"US Passport Visa Map World China\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/USPassportVisaMapWorldChina-800x350.gif 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/USPassportVisaMapWorldChina-250x109.gif 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/USPassportVisaMapWorldChina.gif 1425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So if you have a US passport, and plan to travel outside the USA, check the above map long before you go so you don&#8217;t end up in my shoes. Outside of Brazil, Russia, China, India, some countries in Africa, much of the Middle East, and a few other countries, you are good to go with just a US passport if you are staying for a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is my trip isn&#8217;t cancelled, just pushed back 10 days. The other bad news is a visa for China isn&#8217;t cheap (15,000 + 3,000 yen).<\/p>\n<p>One thing I don&#8217;t understand is why someone with a Japanese passport can go to China without a visa but someone with a US passport cannot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m supposed to be in China right now. The only problem is I found out as I was checking in at the Haneda Airport in Tokyo this morning that an American Citizen with a U.S. passport can&#8217;t go to China without a visa. Live and learn. I&#8217;ve been to 12 countries outside of the USA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[262],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4759,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions\/4759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}