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Where to apply

Resident in Eastern Japan
If you live in Eastern Japan, you should apply for passports at our Tokyo office

Resident in Western Japan
If you live in Western Japan, you should apply for passports at our Tokyo office.  However, if you need an emergency passport you can go to the British Consulate General in Osaka.

Passport services at our offices

The passport services available at our different offices vary. Make sure the office you plan to use offers the services you need.

At our office in Tokyo:

• collect passport application forms
• collect the LS01 form to report your passport lost or stolen
• pay your passport fee in person by cash, or credit card
• submit your passport application form in person.
  

At our Office in Osaka:

• collect the LS01 form to report your passport lost or stolen
• apply for an Emergency passport

You can also:

• post your application form to the Tokyo office. You will need to send the fee in cash using cash registered mail (in Japanese, "genkinkakitome") or fill in the credit card authorisation form. If you wish to have the processed passport returned to you by post, please also enclose postal stamps to the value of ¥700.

What to submit

To apply for a UK passport in Japan you must submit:

• your completed application form
• your 2 passport photographs
• your supporting documents
• your previous passport
• the correct fee or credit card authorisation form.

Processing your passport application

It takes 10 working days to process your passport application from the date we receive it.

Our staff will not be able to process your application or there may be a delay issuing your passport if:

• you have used the wrong form or completed it incorrectly
• you do not provide the correct fee or credit card authorisation form
• you do not include the correct postal
  

Please note that from 1 April 2008, no refunds will be issued for unsuccessful or fraudulent passport applications.

Cancellation of passports containing valid visas, work permits or residence permits

If your passport is due to expire and contains valid visas, work or residence permits, please check with the issuing authorities that the cancellation of your passport will not invalidate them. The British Embassy can take no responsibility for the validity of visas, work or residence permits within cancelled passports. Please make sure you have made these checks before you submit your application for a passport renewal.  Japanese visas can be transferred to the new passport free of charge at Japanese Immigration Bureau.

Our offices

Tokyo

British Embassy
Consular Section
1 Ichiban-cho
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo
Japan

102-8381

Telephone: (81) 3 5211 1100
Fax: (81) 3 5275 0346
Office hours:
Monday to Friday from 0915hrs – 1415hrs
(Except some Japanese and British public holidays)

Disabled access: Through main gates, ramp at consular section.

Osaka  

British Consulate General
Consular Section,
Epson Osaka Building 19F
3-5-1 Bakuro-machi,
Chuo-ku,
Osaka
Japan

541-0059

Telephone: 06-6120-5600
Fax: 06-6281-1731

Our Osaka office does not issue 10-year passports.
Office hours:
Mon - Fri 09:30 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 17:00,
(Except some Japanese and British public holidays)
Disabled access - lift to reception.