Do you need a visa for Brunei with a Japanese passport?

Q: Do you need a visa for Brunei with a Japanese passport?

Visa-free entry. 30 days. Applications go through Brunei Immigration and National Registration Department. It is the only source that counts.

Entry right

Brunei, on a Japanese passport

Visa-free entry.

Length of stay — 30 days.

All visa-free countries with a Japanese passport

What changed

In the 12 January 2025 dataset: visa-free, 90 days. Today: visa-free, 30 days. Only the permitted length of stay has changed.

The official portal

Applications go through Brunei Immigration and National Registration Department. It is the only source that counts.

Open the official portal

Staying longer

No dedicated nomad stay scheme is documented in this country.

The other way round

A Brunei passport travelling to Japan: visa-free.

Same region, same passport

Southeast Asia: with a Japanese passport, 6 of the 10 other countries in the region open visa-free or with a simple online authorisation.

Visa-free (6): Laos (15 d), Malaysia (90 d), Philippines (30 d), Singapore (30 d), Thailand (60 d), Vietnam (45 d)
Visa on arrival (4): Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Timor-Leste

Once you are there

The country guide What a stay costs When to go

Cities rated for working there

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The same country, on another passport

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What this page does not replace

Entry rules change often, sometimes overnight. This record gives the known state, with its source; it does not replace checking with the destination’s embassy or consulate, the only authority on the day you leave.

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