Japanese consulate in Oakland: no office

No Japanese consulate operates in Oakland.

Which Japanese consulate covers Oakland?

Your office is Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco. It is 10 miles from Oakland, roughly 18 min of driving.

California is divided by county: nine southern counties belong to Los Angeles and the rest of the state to San Francisco. Oakland is in Alameda County, which is not one of the nine, so its office is the Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco.

Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco

There is an honorary consul in Fresno, closer than the consulate general. It can help in an emergency and with local matters, but it issues no passports and no visas.

What you can settle without going

You can apply for the eVISA online if your nationality is not visa-exempt.
You can order a koseki copy from your registered domicile in Japan by mail.
You can get an apostille for a U.S. document from the Secretary of State of the issuing state, not from a Japanese consulate.

Other places in the same district

Long Beach, 25 miles from its consulate
Anaheim, 27 miles from its consulate
Riverside, 56 miles from its consulate

Before booking the trip, look at what can be done online: it is more than most people expect.

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