I Got Married in Tokyo

After visiting Japan twice for 30 days each, I and my then fiancé decided to get married on my next visit to Japan. Mainly, the purpose of my third visit is to get married. Here's what we did.
The first step is to apply for Legal Capacity to Contract Marriage (LCCM) from the Philippine embassy in Tokyo so we went to the embassy on the day I arrived. Check out this link

tokyo.philembassy.net to the list of requirements for LCCM  then we received it after 7 days. The staff told us not to forget to register our marriage at the embassy after getting the new Koseki Tohon.

List of requirements from the Philippine Embassy

After receiving the LCCM from the Philippine Embassy, we prepared our documents for our marriage registration.

 

LCCM

I personally advise you to get the list from the city hall where you will register your marriage so that you will only prepare what’s needed. The requirements differ from each city hall; others require translated birth certificate and CENOMAR. We got married at Kita City hall in Tokyo and we didn’t need to submit my translated Birth certificate or CENOMAR. We were thankful that it was so easy to get married in Kita city hall because they only asked for our LCCM, our passports, and they gave us a form to write the details of my passport in Japanese, it’s like a translation. Then, tadaaa! Done, we’re married.
Now you’re married, the next step will be getting a copy of your husband’s Koseki Tohon (Family Registry) with your name as his wife. It took us 7 days to get it so we needed to wait for it before we successfully report our marriage at the Philippine Embassy. A copy of your ROM (Report of Marriage) will be delivered within 10 to 15 days.
Once you got your ROM, that’s the time that you can go to the immigration to apply for your COE (Certificate of Eligibility) or Change of Status of Residence.

 

To sum it all up, here are the keywords that you need to remember:

1. LCCM (Philippine Embassy)

2. Marriage registration (City hall)

3. Latest Koseki Tohon (With your name as your husband's wife) (City hall)

4. Report your marriage (Philippine Embassy)

5. Wait for the copy of your ROM

6. Immigration

 

After you get married, you also need to apply for either COE or change of status of residence, please do not hesitate to check this blog below.

zellechan.hatenablog.com

Good luck! And I hope this helps you. Thanks for reading ^^