Information for visitors from United States of America (excluding Hawaiian Islands)
When you carry plants or plant products in your baggage or hand luggage, you are requested to declare to the plant quarantine counter in the custums clearance area of the port of entry into Japan.
Quick chart for the plants subject to import prohibition
The plants in the columns of 'Prohibited Plants' are prohibited entry into Japan because they are hosts of the pest shown in the columns of 'Quarantine Pests'.
In addition, articles such as quarantine pests, parasitic plants, soil or plants attached with soil are prohibited entry into Japan.

Prohibited Plants

Quarantine Pests

Fresh fruits of apricot, cherry, plum, pear, quince, peach, and apple. Fresh fruits and nuts in shell of walnut.

Codling moth
(Cydia pomonella )

Live vines, leaves, tuberous roots, and other underground portions of plants of the genera Ipomoea, Pharbitis, and Calystegia. Live tuberous roots and other underground portions of cassava.

Sweet potato weevil
(Cylas formicarius )

Live vines, leaves, tuberous roots and other underground portions of plants of the genera Ipomoea, Pharbitis, and Calystegia.

West Indian sweet potato weevil
(Euscepes postfasciatus )

Live haulms, leaves, tubers, and other underground portions of plants of the family Solanaceae.

Potato wart
(Synchytrium endobioticum )

Live haulms and leaves of cabbage, and plants of the genera Cirsium and Verbascum, and plants of the family Solanaceae.

Colorado potato beetle
(Leptinotarsa decemlineata )

Live tubers and other underground portions of plants of the genus Chenopodium, and plants of the family Solanaceae.

Potato cyst nematode
(Globodera rostochiensis )

Live haulms, leaves, and fresh fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae.

Blue mold
(Peronospora tabacina )

Underground portions of live plants of avocado, alfalfa, kidney bean, Indigofera hirsuta, okra, pepper, sweet potato, sugarcane, watermelon, radish, soybean, loblolly pine, red pepper(capsicum), corn, tomato, balsam pear, pineapple, Pinus elliotii, summer squash, melon, peanut (excluding seeds without pod), leek and litchi, and plants of the genera Anthurium, Musa and Beta, and plants of the family Rutaceae.

Citrus burrowing nematode
(Radopholus citrophilus )

Culms and leaves of plants of the genera Hordeum, Triticum, and Secale(including straw packing materials and straw goods similar thereof ), and culms and leaves of plants of the genus Agropyron.

Hessian fly
(Mayetiola destructor)

Rice plants , rice straw (including rice straw bags, mats, and other rice straw goods similar thereof ), unhulled rice and rice hull.

Rice stem nematode
(Ditylenchus angustus ), Trichoconis caudata, Balansia oryzae, and other quarantine pests not existing in Japan.

Live plants and plant parts (including fruit, flower and pollen, other than seed) of Pseudocydonia sinensis, medler, loquat, quince, and plants of the genera Aronia, Photinia, Crataegomespilus, Amelanchier, Crataegus, Cotoneaster, Raphiolepis, Stranvaesia, Osteomeles, Dichotomanthes, Pyracantha, Docynia, Pyrus, Sorbus, Heteromeles, Peraphyllum, Choenomeles,and Malus.

Fire blight
(Erwinia amylovora )

Quick chart for the plants subject to growing site inspection in exporting countries
The plants in 'Plants' column are required to have phytosanitary inspection in the field in exporting countries during the growing period for freedom of the pest given in 'Quarantine pests' column.

Plants

Quarantine Pests

Underground portions of the live plant of garden rhubarb, and plants of the genera Brassica and Beta being capable of planting for cultivation.

Sugar beet nematode
(Heterodera schachtii)

Underground portions of the live plant of Opuntia tortispina, Opuntia fragilis, tomato, potato and Mammillaria vivipara, and plants of the genus Beta being capable of planting for cultivation.

False root-knot nematode
(Nacobbus aberrans )

Underground portions of the live plant of avocado, turmeric, okra, cockscomb, coconut, Colocasia esculentum, sugarcane, ginger, Canna edulis, greater yam, tea, corn, potato, betel palm, peanut (excluding seeds without pod), and plants of the genera Anthurium, Calathea, Maranta, Coffea, Piper, Musa, Philodendronand Beta being capable of planting for cultivation.

Banana burrowing nematode
(Radopholus similis )

Pea seeds intended for planting.

Near-wilt of pea
(Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. pisi )

Kidney bean seeds intended for planting.

Bacterial wilt of beans
(Curtobacterium flaccumfacienspv. flaccumfaciens)

Watermelon seeds intended for planting.

Bacterial fruit blotch
(Acidovorax avenaesubsp. citrulli )

Corn seeds intended for planting.

Stewart's bacterial wilt
(Erwinia stewartii )

Corn seeds intended for planting.

Goss's bacterial wilt and blight
(Clavibacter michiganensissubsp.nebraskensis )

 
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