Originally Posted by
donjo
Yes, relied on the tour guide and they failed to fulfill what they promised. They offered to refund me $1000 of the tour package for their mistake. The tour guide also informed me that I may be banned from the re-entering Japan for a period of time to be determined because of this error. I am waiting to hear how long that might be.
Maybe there is some relatively easy appeal process for that (if worth it), or at least even if you are technically banned for a while, it should be obvious somewhere (in some notes) that this was relatively innocuous and the rare fault of your visa preparer...