What you need to enter Japan with a North Korean passport

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In the other direction, citizens of Japan need a visa to enter North Korea. See the Japan → North Korea page.

Of the 7 passports from Eastern Asia that VisaRadar tracks, for travel to Japan 4 enter visa-free, 2 need a prior authorisation or a visa on arrival and 1 cannot enter.

With a passport from North Korea, in the rest of Eastern Asia you need a prior authorisation or a visa on arrival for Hong Kong, Macao and South Korea; you need a visa for China, Mongolia and Taiwan.

A passport from North Korea ranks 189 of 199 in the VisaRadar passport ranking and reaches 36 of 198 destinations without applying for a visa in advance.

Counts from the same requirements matrix behind this page's verdict, using the UN M49 subregions.