Pre cruise organizing
The day that our renewed passports arrived in January, we received a promotional offer from Holland America showing some cruises. After browsing the material, we decided to book two cruises at good prices, one around Japan and then taking the repositioning cruise back to Seattle, Washington. We had booked similar cruises in 2021 on Holland America and 2022 on Celebrity, but both were cancelled as Japan was closed to tourists. I started researching the ports and checked on Facebook and Cruise Critic for threads on the two cruises and a group about Japan travel tips on Facebook. We were alerted that to enter Japan taking more than 30 days prescription medications a "Yunyu Kakunin-sho", a certificate to import drugs, is required. You can take 60 days of over the counter drugs without a certificate, but Tylenol and other common drugs are not allowed. We have our Yunyu Kakunin-sho, for this 34 day trip. Today, the exchang...