Used an eSim on a trip to Japan recently. I wasn't happy when I realized my IP was in Hong-Kong.

The telco is probably from Hong Kong, and using home-routed roaming, that is subscribers access the visited network through the home PDN gateway (H-PGW). When I roam with mine my IP is always from my home country. There is nothing insidious happening.

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lazycatjumping 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just switch on a VPN.

No reason to avoid cheap providers.

	▲	neilalexander 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Routing through another country unexpectedly already makes your latency worse. Adding a VPN on top possibly worsens it again.
	▲	dboreham 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Which goes through HK and somewhere else..