What is the drinking age in Japan?
18–20
Minimum age to buy alcohol: 20.
Japan is one of 135 countries classified “18–20” for the drinking age — 70% of the 192 with data.
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Legal drinking age
- Last checked
- 15 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Read directly from the source’s own table, without interpretation.
Nearby countries
- South Korea
- 18–20 Minimum age to buy alcohol: 19.
- North Korea
- 18–20 Minimum age to buy alcohol: 18.
- Taiwan
- 18–20 Minimum age to buy alcohol: 18.
- Hong Kong
- 18–20 Minimum age to buy alcohol: 18.
- Macau
- 18–20 Minimum age to buy alcohol: 18.
- Philippines
- 18–20 Minimum age to buy alcohol: 18.
Other laws in Japan
- Cannabis
- Illegal
- Smoking Age
- 19+
- Psilocybin Mushrooms
- Illegal
- Salvia Divinorum
- Illegal
- E-Cigarettes
- Sales banned
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