Japan will start charging departing travellers a ‘sayonara tax’ from 2019

Your trip to Japan might be about to get a little more expensive. Travellers will be charged 1,000 yen ($9.37) for leaving the country as of 2019. According to Nikkei Asian Review, the tax is part of an effort to raise 40 billion yen annually to bolster …
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