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Francis-Pax
Joined: 20 Nov 2005
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 Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject: Alternative Visa Run Destinations |
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I am going to be changing jobs soon and I will have to do the routine visa run. I would like to know if any of you have dome this process in asian country other than Japan.
Please make suggestions. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Does anyone know if it's possible to do a visa run to Japan's Tsushima Island. It's so close (between Pusan and Fukuoka). |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| captain kirk wrote: |
| Does anyone know if it's possible to do a visa run to Japan's Tsushima Island. It's so close (between Pusan and Fukuoka). |
Probably not, as far as I know there is no Korean consulate there, but there is just a few hours away in Fukuoka. I've done a visa run to Jakarta, Indonesia, despite Immigration here telling me I couldn't. Pretty much any country with an Embassy or Consul will give you an E2, but it can take longer than the two days that it takes in Nippon. |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Dehli was good. Shanghai would be cheap. |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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I've seen an ad in the Korea Times by one of the travel agents offering a visa run package to Macau.
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| captain kirk wrote: |
| Does anyone know if it's possible to do a visa run to Japan's Tsushima Island. It's so close (between Pusan and Fukuoka). |
No, but I've been there before. It's really close but that only counts for the town on the north side; if you're going to Izuhara it has to go all the way around to the south part and it takes just as long as it does to get to Busan.
Here's what I wrote on it:
http://wiki.galbijim.com/Izuhara |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject: Re: Alternative Visa Run Destinations |
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| Francis-Pax wrote: |
I am going to be changing jobs soon and I will have to do the routine visa run. I would like to know if any of you have dome this process in asian country other than Japan.
Please make suggestions. |
It's all listed in the TRAVEL forum of this board.
Japan is typically overnight.
Bangkok is typically overnight.
Manila is 2 - 4 days but can be done in 1 hour if you have an INTERNATIONAL flight going somewhere OTHER than Korea on the same day (experience talking - been there done that).
Guam is overnight.
China is 1-4 days but you need a visa to enter China first.
I think that covers most of the close ones. |
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speder
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 2:15 am Post subject: Try Hong Kong |
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| I did a run to Hong Kong. It took less than 3 hours to fly to from Busan. I got into HK at 11am...train directly to downtown....walked 10 minutes to the consulate....had everything in before 2pm...picked up the visa the next morning at 9 am....smooth...and as cheap as Fukuoka and Osaka....plus HK is great to see and explore. |
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