9 countries · 26 rules taken from official sources
A visa rule is not true
in the abstract
“45 days visa-free in Vietnam” is true on a French passport and false on a Canadian one, which needs a visa from day one. Most travel guides never say which passport they mean. This table does — and each row comes from the traveller’s own government, with the month it was read.
42 official pages are re-read every night. When one changes, the page changes and the correction is published next to what we used to say.
Visa-free stay, by passport
Ordinary passports, tourism. A dash means we have not taken that rule from an official source — see below for why.
| Country | FR | GB | CA | US | AU | NZ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 45 days | 45 days | Visa required | — | — | — |
| Thailand | 30 days | 60 days | — | — | — | — |
| Japan | 90 days | 90 days | 90 days | — | — | — |
| China | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | — | — | — |
| Laos | Visa required | Visa required | Visa required | — | — | — |
| Cambodia | Visa required | Visa required | Visa required | — | — | — |
| South Korea | 90 days | 90 days | 180 days | — | — | — |
| Indonesia | Visa required | Visa required | Visa required | — | — | — |
| Philippines | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | — | — | — |
FR France · GB United Kingdom · CA Canada · US United States · AU Australia · NZ New Zealand. Rules change without notice: check the official source before you book.
What we could not verify
Three governments publish entry rules in a way no machine can read, and we will not guess on their behalf.
- United States — travel.state.gov returns 403 to automated readers.
- Australia — smartraveller.gov.au refuses the connection.
- New Zealand — safetravel.govt.nz publishes safety advice, not entry rules.
We could have copied the British rule across and called it close enough. It is not: the Canadian rule for Vietnam differs from the French one, and the Canadian rule for South Korea gives 180 days where others get 90. A rule transposed from another passport gets paid for at a border.
One case is stranger still. For Thailand, the Canadian portal still says 60 days and does not mention the change of 15 September 2026 that the British portal confirms. Two official sources contradict each other on a rule that decides a fine on the way out, so that cell is empty rather than wrong.
Where to start
Tool
Do I need a visa?
Your passport, your destination and how long you are staying — the rule as published, with its source and date.
Articles
Itineraries, districts, fares
Operator fare tables, real journey times, and which district to sleep in.
Corrections
What we got wrong
Every correction since launch, with the wording that was wrong kept in place.
What this site is, in one paragraph
A travel guide to nine Asian countries, written from official sources, published in French and in English. Every entry rule carries the month it was checked and a link to the government page it came from. When one changes, the correction is published with the old wording next to the new one — the log is public.
The English version is not a machine translation of the French one, and it is deliberately shorter. Four French guides have no English version and will not have one: they document French insurance contracts, French bank cards and French passport-renewal timings. They are out of scope for an English reader rather than late in translation. What is here travels across languages without deforming — rules, fares, distances, seasons.
The data behind this table is open: visas.json, CC BY 4.0, with each rule's source and verification date, passport by passport. There is also a llms.txt for machines that read to answer, and an English feed.