Fake Visit Japan Web websites: how to find the real one

Short answerThe official Visit Japan Web (online immigration and customs procedures) is only on vjw.digital.go.jp. Below are the official warnings about look-alike sites and how to tell them apart.

Checked 28 October 2026 by the Arrival Card Finder editorial team against official sources. How we check

Open the official formvjw.digital.go.jp

Official warnings

Digital Agency, Japan, 9 November 2023
An app impersonating Visit Japan Web asks for credit card details. Visit Japan Web never asks for money.
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Japan Customs, 28 May 2026
Fake Visit Japan Web sites ask for money as application processing fees, and some sites charge a fee to make the customs declaration or the Visit Japan Web QR code for you. Visit Japan Web and the electronic declaration are free.
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Look-alike sites named by official sources

No official source has named a specific look-alike domain for this form yet, so check the address yourself every time.

How to spot the official site

The address must be exactly vjw.digital.go.jp. Type it yourself or use the official link on this page instead of clicking an ad.
Look closely at the spelling and the ending. Look-alike sites copy the form's name in a slightly different address.
The official form is free. A request for a service fee or card details means you are on the wrong site.
Use only addresses on digital.go.jp: vjw.digital.go.jp for the service and login, and services.digital.go.jp or vjw-lp.digital.go.jp for information pages.
Visit Japan Web is free and does not ask for your credit card number. A site or app that asks for a fee or card details is not the official service.
The Digital Agency has warned about a suspicious app imitating Visit Japan Web that asks for credit card information. If you installed a suspicious app, uninstall it immediately.
Fake websites copying the Digital Agency's own site have also been reported, and opening them may infect your device. The Digital Agency's official site is www.digital.go.jp.

Already paid a fake site?

Fill in the real form on the official site. CARICOM IMPACS says these sites "charge fees for fake forms that hold no value", and the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service says users of the fake C5 site for Jamaica will not receive a valid form.
Do not pay anything more. Taiwan's National Immigration Agency says that if a site asks you to pay, do not pay.
Report it. In the Philippines, the Bureau of Immigration asks people to report fake eTravel sites to the CICC hotline 1326 or at cicc.gov.ph/report.
Keep in mind what you shared. Official warnings say these sites can collect personal data (Singapore's ICA), be used for data theft (Indonesian Customs), ask for bank details (Chile's SAG) and defraud credit cards (Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security).

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Official sources

Every fact on this page comes from these government pages and official travel advice.