Hi All,

I'll be visiting Osaka area in Feb 2025. The last time I visited Japan was back in 2018.

Please help me with a couple of questions:

1. For immigration and custom clearance (inbound and outbound), is it compulsory to digital immigration and custom clearance via https://services.digital.go.jp/en/visit-japan-web/  ?

2. Tax return, I remember I read somewhere in  the past there's also a digital ID that we need to sign up in advance. Is that still the case?

3. Is Japan still a cash society or they are now more cashless? I'm going with family of 3 including myself for 10 days, is 90K yen cash sufficient and the rest can be pay by credit card / TNG / Apple Suica . I also saw a few post about pay pay, do i need to sign up for pay pay as well?

4. I have a physical suica card. I'm planning to link my physical suica card to my iphone wallet. Once the suica card is link to iphone, can I still use the physical suica card ?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Kyoto overtourism, the amount of ppl there are insane 

Don’t think I will go there anytime soon until they find a way to curb the people… walk everywhere also like sardin

Now I’m otw to Sapporo and saw huge amount of prc travelling there