中国の240時間ビザ免除トランジット：2026年完全ガイド

核心概要

240時間(10日)ビザ免除トランジットは、約55カ国の国民が中国を通過しながら旅行することを許可します。第三国に出国する場合のみ該当し、シングルエントリーです。2024年12月の政策拡大以降、24省、65港、24省間の横断旅行が可能です。

対象国(55カ国)

EU 27カ国全土 + 英国、アイルランド、ノルウェー、スイス、アイスランド、リヒテンシュタイン、米国、カナダ(一部)、ブラジル、メキシコ、アルゼンチン、チリ、オーストラリア、ニュージーランド、日本、韓国、シンガポール、マレーシア、タイ、インドネシア、UAE、カタール、ロシアなど。

Quick decision: Do you qualify?

You qualify for the 240-hour visa-free transit if all four are true:

1. Your passport is from one of the 55 eligible countries.
2. You are transiting through mainland China to a third country — your destination after China is not your country of origin.
3. You have a confirmed onward ticket departing China within 240 hours (10 days). The ticket must be booked, not a reservation — immigration wants a real e-ticket number.
4. You enter and exit through an approved port — 65 entry/exit ports across mainland China.

If you fail any of these, you need a tourist visa (L visa) or a different visa-free policy (30-day unilateral exemption, Hainan 30-day, etc.).

How long is 240 hours, exactly?

The clock starts at 00:00 the day after you enter mainland China, not at the moment you clear immigration. If you land at 11 PM on Monday, your 240 hours does not start until Tuesday 00:00 — you actually get the rest of Tuesday plus 9 more full days.

2024 expansion: Cross-province travel is now allowed

Before December 17, 2024, you had to stay in one of 19 designated regions (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, etc.). You could not cross between regions. The 2024 expansion merged and added new regions, and now you can travel between most of them by HSR or domestic flight.

You can now do a route like:

• Enter Shanghai, take HSR to Hangzhou → Suzhou → Nanjing, exit from Shanghai
• Enter Beijing, take HSR to Xi’an → Luoyang, exit from Xi’an
• Enter Guangzhou, take HSR to Guilin → Yangshuo, exit from Guangzhou