It's one of the things that will definitely be helpful for you if you plan to stay in Japan for a long period off time.

Hey, guys, it's Kathy Kat.

In Japan, you can reach many places by train, but some places you still need a call for.

Today we're going to go to J F, which is the Japanese ultra Mobile Federation.

So let's have a look and see what we need to do in order to translate my German driver's license into a license I can use here in Japan.

Let's go going up to J.

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I got a document like this.

It's called the application form for Japanese translation or foreign driver's license.

People from certain countries can apply due to get their driver's license translated into Japanese.

These countries are Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Slovenia, Monaco, Estonia and Taiwan.

So if you from any of those countries you need to get their have fill in the form like he which also say is where you live your name and you also have to submit your driver's license, they'll have a look at it.

Copy it and then after tree to 2 to 3 hours.

That's how long we were waiting.

You actually get your translate it driver's license receipt.

Now, if you are here for one year within the very first year, that is enough to drive in Japan.

So you need to have your driver's license plus Alfa the document that you get in a little envelope like this.

So you always have to carry both items with you when you drive.

However, that is not enough if you actually here for longer than that.

So if you have here for longer than a year in Japan, you need to actually get it transferred over to a proper driver's license.

That's the next thing we are going to check out if you are from the UK Oh, if you are from America, these procedures you should start doing in your country because it's a different drivers system.

So before you come to Japan police to the procedure.

Also, if you are German and you have an international driver's licence that actually does not work, you cannot use this, so be careful about that before you come to Japan.

Now let's head off with Step two.

How to apply for proper driver's license in Japan.

I'm not sure what we have to do for that.

So let's find out right now.

The director and I are in the car were on the way to actually get a proper driver's license in Japan.

I brought so many documents together, So I'm gonna explain you guys how you can apply for that.

They're so soon.

It will not be me sitting in the passenger seat.

It will be me sitting in the driver, see, because I'm gonna be cruising, rolling all the way.

But apparently I'm not allowed to drive the company car, and now we're back.

So let me summarize what I learnt for you guys.

You can take advantage of that for the majority of people.

You'll have to go to one off the driver's license centers in order to get a Japanese driver's license.

There are, for example, three in Tokyo.

One isn't food chew.

One is in gold cocoa, and one is that Hamas.

Now the Sam is the one is actually the one that's absolutely packed because it's very close to Shinagawa.

Quite a lot of foreigners are there on and you've been waiting for, like, a whole day.

Or maybe it doesn't even finish in one day.

So we decided to go all the way out to Food Shoe, where there were less people, but it still took quite a long time, a lot longer than we thought it would be.

So calculate quite a lot off time in when you actually go in my take up hall for day or even more, depending on how many other people are there.

So they're a couple of documents.

You will definitely need to have an older to start applying for Japanese driver's license.

One is your passport to issue alien registration card.

Next one, you have a need approved off certificate where you live.

So for that when you need to actually go to your local city whole on again, a stiff grateful that on finally, he also need your driver's license from the country you are from in order to apply for a Japanese driver's license.

So those are the four most important things.

You also will need a passport picture in the right size 3 to 2.

It is, but you can also check with them again, also their machines downstairs and most of these buildings so you can get yourself a passport picture taken.

So the procedure, first of all this enduro number, once your numbers that you handle the documents over to them and they will give you a couple of documents back.

And also they will ask you, for example, have you ever been in a car crash in Japan?

Have you ever driven illegally in Japan and all those kinds of a light that general checks that they go through?

And also that a couple of questions about your health, so example, if you ever passed out or something like that.

So they also check up on that in your passport.

If you, for example travel a lot, you might have quite a lot of stamps.

So what their first do is they will try and estimate how long he actually lived in your country and use the driver's license you had in your country before you traveled around and similar things.

Ideally, and I think you have to have a least driven in your country for at least a year, and it needs to be some her clearly status they could figure out that you've actually been driving in your country for a while before you actually then came to use your driver's license to get switched over to a Japanese Travis license.

It's a point you might want to look out for.

Now.

What cars can you actually drive?

That is usually based on your driver's license now, because there are differences between the types of driver's license and what how strict they are.

That depends on your country, so they'll tell you at the counter what you're actually allowed to drive in Japan at that point in time.

So, for example, with me will straight forward because the Japanese driver's license on the German driver's license, for whatever reason, seemed to be very, very similar in the system and the testing and such.

So it's pretty much what I can drive in Germany.

I can drive now in Japan, even though we drive on the other side of the road.

Once that is old cleared, next step for you will be to go back down to the first floor and there you will actually pay for the certification.

I was surprised it wasn't even that expensive at this point.

in time.

It's under 5000 yen on you also go over to get your eyes checked.

No, my Isis have gone bad and you can see that I actually wear contacts quite a lot.

So I actually first tried to take the test without the contacts and this it okay, put in your contacts night with the contacts in.

So they're gonna note that in the actual driver's license that I will need glasses or contact lenses in order to drive, which is fine, because I know that I wouldn't do that without any weighs.

Next step for you is again to head back out and then take another picture of you.

Now that picture is not the picture that you use for applying for the license, but that's the picture that's actually going to get on your license.

And I didn't know that.

So I had the nice and formal looking picture on the application form.

But I have me looking like this with my pigs and little birds of my hair off my drive.

It's probably the driver's licenses.

Now the que tous to form off licence that I have in my whole life hot ever Also If you would like to have a little bit of prep time, you will have to have 24 digit numbers that you're registered to your driver's license because they're hidden details inside the actual digital card.

That's how that's one of things you actually check and you get the actual essence to make sure that you can log into it and that all the date only is right.

There is your driver's license.

Also, you can use the license in Japan, for example, make points, cards and stuff like that.

It's one of the things that will definitely be helpful for you if you plan to stay in Japan for a long period, all time, several years on such.

So I'm glad I got this one.

This is how it looks.

Also they lasting for three years.

So after three years, you have to take a class and then renew your driver's license.

It's not forever guys on that note, guys, where shall I go and drive to know that I have a driver's license?

I'd like to make videos with the director where we actually drive places and show you places, so leave comments down below where you definitely would like to go to and especially if someone has said where you'd like to go to, to give them a thumbs up.

So we know this is the comment with the most well responses that everyone really would like us to go to sort of forget to leave us lots of messages, like over to see.

We would like me to take you on a cruise to hop onto the car.

Baby, I'm gonna take you for a ride for ballot.

But don't don't go too far away from Tokyo because obviously that don't we have to take the train and then the car and stuff like that.

It was so baby hop onto the curl.

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Double checking with your country some off the guidelines that I told you today might be spiked different or more strict, depending on your country's always double check before you actually go to the office on a few driver's license.

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