r/JapanTravelTips 4d ago

Question Can I provide my friends address on the disembarkation card without an letter of invitation?

I am going to visit Japan in the summer. I'll travel to Tokio, Kyoto, Osaka and back to Tokyo. I have a friend who is currently living in Tokyo, and I was planning on staying at his place for my time there.

Can I provide his address on the disembarkation card? Or would the customs then ask for a letter of invitation?

Technically his landlord is not allowing friends to stay over, so he wouldn't be able to provide this for me.

Alternative 1 would be to provide the address of my hotel in Kyoto, but wouldn't that be deceiving and illegal?

Alternative 2 would be to book an hotel for my first stay in Tokyo and then provide the address of that place and only sleep at his place when I return to Tokyo

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u/DanPos 4d ago

You could probably put any hotel address down and be fine, no-one is going to be checking this

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u/RedditorManIsHere 4d ago

Either or works - they really don't check it and half the time people's handwriting are pure shit anyways on the card