Food and shopping

What this page is about

Finding ingredients you cannot get locally, reading a Japanese label, and the rules on what visitors can buy without tax.

What it does not have

This page does not yet list the offices, forms, costs or step-by-step procedures for it. The Immigration Services Agency publishes the Daily Life Support Portal, which covers this ground officially, free, in 19 languages, and is written by the agency that administers the procedures.

What there is alreadyHow tax-free shopping works, with the rules sourced ›

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