Seminar regarding a trip to Japan 10/27/2022

In the afternoon I attended a seminar regarding a trip to Japan presented by a Japanese travel agency. There were three speakers and they all provided the helpful information. I didn’t know about the current requirement for a Japanese person to enter Japan. If a person already has received the corona vaccine more than three times, they can enter Japan easily. However, for a person like me who has not received the vaccine at all or only received up to twice, it will be tough because we will have to prepare extra documents and procedures. Same thing goes to a minor child. If their parents have received the vaccine more than three times, all the time-consuming documents and procedures will be waived. If not, even a minor child will have to prepare the required documents just to enter Japan even though they are going back to their own country. My family spirits are right. They are telling me to wait until the year of 2024 for us to visit Japan. This situation will stay the same in the next year of 2023.  

There was one good news. United airline will resume the international flight from San Francisco to Osaka from January 5th 2023. Even it will be only 3 days a week, it is much better than no flights at all like in the previous two years.