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Japan opens borders to tourists as last pandemic travel restrictions eased

A tour guide wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus
A tour guide waits to meet her group near a shopping street in Tokyo. Individual travellers will be able to visit Japan without visas from 11 October. Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/AP

Japan has fully opened its doors to visitors after more than two years of pandemic isolation.

On Tuesday, the country reinstated visa-free travel to dozens of countries, ending some of world’s strictest Covid-19 border controls. Japan has also lifted the 50,000-person entry cap and ended the requirement for tourists to travel as part of tour groups, Kyodo news agency reported.

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