Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles

California is divided by ZIP code, not by county. This office covers 900 to 931 and, as the single written exception, 935. Everything from 932 upwards belongs to San Francisco.

Los Angeles covers Arizona and the southern half of California, and the line between it and San Francisco is one of the odder ones in the network. Bakersfield, deep in the centre of the state, is not here.

How to book an appointment at the Japanese consulate in Los Angeles

Booking comes first at Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles; the forms can wait until you have a date.

There is no single portal. Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles lists how to book for each service on its own site, and the visa section keeps its own hours and its own email.

Be wary of sites that offer to manage your appointment for a fee. The consulate charges nothing to book.

Address

350 South Grand Avenue, Suite 1700
Los Angeles, 90071

Telephone

(213) 617-6700

Consular counter

9:30 – 11:30 a.m. y 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Fax

(213) 617-6727

Official website

www.la.us.emb-japan.go.jp

Book an appointment Fees and requirements All the procedures

The 935 exception exists to keep Los Angeles County whole: Palmdale, Lancaster and the Antelope Valley keep 935 ZIP codes and are served from here, even though everything around them is not.

How to cancel an appointment at the Japanese consulate in Los Angeles

Let the office know rather than simply not turning up.

Write to Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles by email, with your name and the date of the appointment. Do not rely on a phone call: the consular section may not answer the line during counter hours.

Getting to the Japanese consulate in Los Angeles

You will find the office at 350 South Grand Avenue, Suite 1700. Downtown parking is expensive where it exists at all.

Real reviews of the Japanese consulate in Los Angeles

3.2 out of 5 across 156 reviews. The split is stark: the applications that go through are quick, and the ones that stall generate long, angry accounts.

I dropped off a complete student visa file and the passport was ready for collection in **exactly five business days**, as the page said it would be.

Jordan M.

My 1:15 appointment turned out to be shared with three other people booked at the same time, and one member of staff was covering the counter.

Aiko T.

The visa took over a week and nobody told me it was ready. The delay cost me a flight and very nearly a job.

April K.

Opening hours of the Japanese consulate in Los Angeles

The counter hours are the part that catches people out.

The consular counter opens 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. y 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.. The office itself keeps longer hours, and the two are not the same thing.

Phone number of the Japanese consulate in Los Angeles

The number is (213) 617-6700. Consular sections often do not answer during counter hours, so email usually gets a faster reply.

What the Japanese consulate in Los Angeles handles

A good part of the Japanese paperwork Americans need never passes through a consulate at all.

Passports, visas, family register entries and certificates for Arizona and southern California. If your ZIP starts 932, 933, 934 or 936 and above, your office is San Francisco even if you live closer to this one.

What you can settle without going

Several of these steps do not need the counter at all.

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.

You can register your address abroad through ORR net instead of at the counter.

Not an official site. We gather what the Japanese offices publish, including the places where their own sources contradict each other, and point you back to them.