Best eSIM Roaming

Data Plans For Trips To China, Japan, South Korea, And Taiwan

- MARCUS WONG

Roaming data is fast becoming a travel essential. Apart from staying connected to your family and friends, you also need it for entertainment, navigation, and payments. Happily, roaming data is considerably more affordable and convenient these days thanks to the widespread availability of eSIM roaming data add-on plans. These plans allow you to get roaming data without having to switch providers or even swap out SIM cards. So, following our article on best eSIM roaming data add-on plans for trips in Southeast Asia, here’s a look at the best offerings for a seven-day trip to China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. But before we begin with our recommendations, here are some criteria that we set for this guide.

Note 1: For the purpose of comparison, we’ve set a benchmark data usage of 500MB per day. Thus, for 7 days we considered a minimum data allocation of 3.5GB.

Note 2: Plans featured in this eSIM roaming data plan compilation are the core offerings from each brand. In making our comparisons, we have left out the temporary promotional pricing and gone with the core pricing.

Note 3: Recommendations made do not take into account network performance/reach and are based on overall plan proposition/offerings and value for international roaming data. Looking at eSIM data roaming add-on plans for East Asia, it appears Wefly offers the best rates overall. 

It has a variety of packages for these four countries, with both SIM card and eSIM options. The plans range from 3 days to 15 days. Though they technically provide unlimited data, speeds get throttled each day after a certain amount.