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- #RENEW LAZY NEZUMI LICENSE DRIVER#
- #RENEW LAZY NEZUMI LICENSE LICENSE#
That said, you'd have to be in a pretty bad state not to be able to pass it. Gestures will do if your Japanese can't handle "up," "down," "left," and "right." Don't forget to tell the staff on hand if you're wearing contact lenses.Įye-test staff will tick some boxes on your form and hand it back to you.įYI - I've no idea what happens at this stage if you fail the eye test. Stick your peelers up to the machine and read off two or three of those broken circles on a Landolt C chart.
If there's anything good to come out of the long lines, it's that staff on duty don't muck about with the eye test. It's over to the eye-test area where the longest queues typically await. Your form will be returned, along with a receipt. The postcard details the price of renewal. Once you've got the form filled-in though, that's about it in terms of consequential language barriers. What I had to fill out though was only the very basics. Forms, in this expat's experience, aren't available in languages other than Japanese and while staff are floating around this really isn't bend-over-backwards-to-help-clueless-foreigners territory. This is arguably the trickiest part of the process. Staff circle the fields you're required to fill in.
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Hand in your postcard and current license - staff will quickly print off a form with a copy of your license scanned into the middle of it and hand everything back to you.Ĭreate two pin numbers on the form for use when you check the conditions of your new license at machines once it has been issued.
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Moving around Japan’s drivers license centers in pursuit of a renewal is easy enough, counters are clearly numbered and in the end you’re just following everyone else. With just over an hour left before reception closing, there were few people around. When I arrived at the license center at around 1pm on Sunday, it was pretty packed. It should also be noted that beginning the process within an hour of closing time may mean having to carry things over to another day. So, facing a two-hour lecture means giving yourself time to fit that in. Traffic rules violation: 2 hour safety lessonįees (at the time of writing) First renewal Renewing a Gold license (without any violations): 30 minutes Green (beginner license) to Blue (regular license): 2 hoursīlue to Gold (meaning no traffic violations): 1 hour Expect lecture lengths to be approximately the following.
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Yes, even after having proved yourself to be worthy of a Japanese driver license, you'll still have to sit through THE lecture. On weekends, expect a lot of people! The time you arrive may be dictated by how long your 'road safety' lecture is scheduled to last. Police stations will undoubtedly receive the least amount of human traffic. License centers and police stations keep the same kind of hours for renewals - with two available sessions either side of lunch. The dimensions are detailed on the postcard (3 cm in length, 2.5 cm in width - the usual rules apply). Renewing at police stations will mean having to have a photo prepared.
Wherever you renew your Japanese driver license, you'll need to bring that postcard, your current license, at least 3,000 yen, and your Residents Card or passport (just in case).Įveryone needs a new photo, but at drivers license centers photos are taken on-site. It may also be possible to renew at your local police station (which may be easier in terms of access) but these locations are often only able to conduct the process on limited weekends. If, like this expat, work restricts you to the weekends for dealing with Japanese society's bureaucracy, a 'drivers license center' (運転免許証センター) is likely where you'll be doing the procedure. The postcard also details how much it will cost, where it can be done, and what you need to bring along. It will indicate that you have a two-month period in which to get your license renewed (one month before and after your birthday). Renewing a Japanese driver license is simple enough for the most part, it's just that it can be time consuming and is a completely dull way to have to spend a precious day off.Īround two months before your birthday on the year your license (運転免許証) expires, you'll be sent a postcard / letter that looks something like this…
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