Japanese consulate in San Jose: no office

No Japanese consulate operates in San Jose.

Which Japanese consulate covers San Jose?

The office that covers San Jose is Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco, 49 miles away, about 1 h 3 min by road at the speed limit.

California is divided by county: nine southern counties belong to Los Angeles and the rest of the state to San Francisco. San Jose is in Santa Clara 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 have the Certificate of Eligibility applied for in Japan by your sponsor.
You can check the office hours: most consular counters close at midday.
You can check whether you need a visa at all, because most U.S. passport holders do not for stays under 90 days.

Other places in the same district

Stockton, 81 miles from its consulate
Modesto, 91 miles from its consulate
Sacramento, 86 miles from its consulate

Where the drive is long, the mail route is worth a call to the office first.

This is an independent guide. It is not the Japanese government, and it does not process applications or book appointments. Details change: check anything that decides a trip against the office itself.