Can a Japanese citizen get a visa for Iran at the border from Pakistan?
My Japanese friend found it impossible to get a visa for Iran in Tokyo, and decided to try and get it at the border from Pakistan to Iran.
Is it even possible?
Wikivoyage says visa on arrival is possible at the Imam Khomeini International Airport, but no mention about coming by road or train.
It would be for a two-weeks touristic stay.
Best Answer
The site linked by Ankur gives the address and website of the Iranian embassy in Tokyo. Guess your friend didn't do his research properly:
JAPAN (TOKYO)
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Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tokyo, Japan
Titel of Diplomatic Office:Embassy
Head of Diplomatic Office:
Date of Establishment:1930
Address:3-10-32MINAMI-AZABU ,MINATO-KU
Address:TOKYO 106 JAPAN
P.O.Box:34489022
Country-Area-Code:0081
Tel.:033 - 34468011-34468015-34468014-34468013- 3446801
Fax:033 - 34462383
Emergency-Tel:
Consular Section:34468021-34468023 FAX CON.3448902
Homepage: tokyo.mfa.ir
E-mail:SJEI@GOL.COM
Online visa applications seem to be down at the moment, but the embassy should be able to help him out. If they say he can't get a visa, I doubt he'll get one by just turning up at some dusty border checkpoint and asking (and if they let him through after paying a few hundred dollars, he's going to have trouble with the first police or other security checkpoint that asks for his papers).
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Answer 2
According to IATA's TimaticWeb database which most airlines check visa requirements against (which I accessed through Delta Airlines' site), visa-on-arrival in Iran is available for:
Holders of normal passports traveling as tourist can obtain a visa on arrival, for a max. stay of 15 days, provided:
- holding an e-visa pre-approval code obtained via e-mail from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at: www.mfa.gov.ir; and
arriving at Chah-Bahar (ZBR), Gheshm (GSM), Kish (KIH), Mashad, (MHD) Esfahan (IFN), Shiraz (SYZ), Tabriz (TBZ) and Tehran Imam Khomeini International (IKA) or Tehran Mehrabad International (THR); and
holding a photograph, a copy of passport's biographical page and fee of between EUR 30 and EUR 80.
It would therefore seem obtaining visa-on-arrival is not possible at land borders.
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