Where do you put your luggage before checking in Japan?
If just want to simply store your luggage, you can easily use coin lockers of various sizes at most stations and tourist facilities in Japan. The cost varies on the size, but expect to pay between 300 and 600 yen.
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If you prefer keeping your luggage with you at all times, check with your hotel. Most hotels provide luggage storage services, allowing you to leave your bags with them before check-in or after check-out. It's a convenient option if you want to explore the city without being weighed down by your luggage.
The most common way to arrange for disposal of oversized garbage is through your local municipality. Depending on the area, you will need to make an appointment either via phone or at the municipality's website. This appointment is for your pick-up time and collection point.
Make a request at a “Hands-Free Travel Service” counter located at the hotel reception. Write the address of the hotel you will be staying on a waybill and pay the shipping fees. The request is accepted. Enjoy traveling around Japan in comfort.
Japan Luggage Forwarding BasicsIt is highly convenient, reliable, secure, and – notably, when it comes to Japan travel – very economical. There are several companies that offer the service, including Kuroneko Yamato, but travelers need not worry about choosing – most hotels and ryokans will take care of it for you.
You will need to collect your baggage upon entering JapanIn compliance with the Customs Law, all passengers entering Japan must undergo a customs inspection. Therefore, all passengers entering Japan via Narita Airport in transit to domestic flights must collect their suitcases and other checked baggage.
Items designated as prohibited by the Civil Aeronautics Act cannot be placed inside checked baggage. (Examples include toxic gases, flammable gases, flammable liquids, compressed gases.) Although dry ice, alcoholic liquids, and cigarette lighters fall under the “Prohibition for Carriage of Explosives etc.
Several luggage storage options are available at Narita Airport Tokyo, including self-serve coin lockers. The coin-lockers have a use time limit of 8 days, and the basic options cost approximately 500 yen/day. Depending on which locker you choose, a notice will indicate if you will be charged an hourly or daily rate.
Use storage facilities at an airport or a train stationA less convenient option is the airport. Although you could store your bags at the airport, you have to return to pick them up, which might be quite far from where you're staying. Don't leave your passport, wallet or laptop in a stored bag.
Luggage pieces less than 160 cm (sum of height x length x width) can be brought aboard without prior reservation. For luggage pieces between 160 cm – 250 centimetres, a prior reservation is required, which can be made for free.
Narcotics such as opium, cocaine, heroin, MDMA, magic mushrooms, stimulant drugs (stimulant drugs contained in an inhaler or items containing stimulant drug ingredients), cannabis, opium smoking paraphernalia and psychotropic drugs are not allowed in Japan.