Travel adapters for visitors from Japan
Your plugs: Types A and B · 100 V at home
With plugs of type A and B: 21 destinations need nothing extra, 0 need only a plug adapter, and 117 are on a different voltage range: check your device’s input rating label.
nothing extra adapter only different voltage Japan (the reference home country). Grey: not covered.
Same range, a different nominal voltage 15
These destinations are in the same voltage range as home (100 V) but list a value more than 10 V higher.
115 V: Barbados, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago.
120 V: Bahamas, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, United States, Venezuela.
Frequency where your plugs fit
Japan itself uses both 50 Hz and 60 Hz, depending on the area, so each destination matches one part of the country.
50 Hz: Barbados, Jamaica, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Thailand.
60 Hz: Aruba, Bahamas, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Venezuela.
Some of your plugs fit 4
In these countries one of your plug types goes in and the other does not.
Type A plug: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Vietnam.
Travelling from a country not listed as a home region? The adapter checker compares any two countries.