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DEPARTURE RULE🇯🇵 JAPAN

Taking e-reader (kindle, kobo, nook) out of Japan

STATUS · ALLOWED

E-readers and tablets may be exported from Japan freely at personal-use quantities.

Details

Personal-use e-readers and tablets may be taken out of Japan without export formalities. Consumer e-readers face no export formalities. Lithium-battery devices should travel in cabin baggage per IATA rules.

Quantity limits

Personal-use quantities

The other direction

INBOUND

Bringing e-reader (kindle, kobo, nook) into Japan(allowed)

Sources

VERIFIED · 2026-07-25Report a correction
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