Global mobility · edition 2026
How far does your passport actually take you?
199 passports scored against 227 destinations. Search a country to see its rank, its access, and how much it moved this year.
199
Passports indexed
227
Destinations tracked
108
Average access
170
Strongest–weakest gap
JAPAN
PASSPORT
JP
Asia-Pacific
Japan
188 destinations without a prior visa · 39 requiring one
Global rank
#2
0 vs last yearRegional rank
#2
of 34 in Asia-Pacific
Destinations
188
+1 index score YoY- Visa-free
- 147
- Visa on arrival
- 27
- eTA
- 14
- Visa required
- 39
Rank trajectory
Rank movement since 2024
Japan sits at #2 today, from #2 a year ago. Hover the line to read any year. A higher line means a stronger position.
97.9
Mobility score
Normalised against Singapore, the strongest passport in the index.
Travel access
Where a Japan passport can go
Headline scores and ranks follow the published 2026 index, which covers all 227 destinations. The country lists below come from the live visa-rule feed, refreshed monthly, which covers the 199 indexed countries — so these lists are a subset of the totals above.
Estimated distribution, scaled to the 199 indexed countries — live per-country rules appear here once this passport is covered by the visa data provider.
The index