| A few notes to be aware of: - if you're sending your luggage to the airport, check the deadline for sending, depending where you are sending from it could be 2-3 days before your flight - hotels I paid at were cash only for this service (one of the few things I paid in cash, but likely depends on the hotel) - some hotels did not take payments for sending, only supporting cash on delivery, so if you're sending to another hotel you should check if they will accept it Sending from a convenience store is another option if those two last points are problems. Another thing I thought of, the two times I needed it, the hotels sold cardboard boxes (a few hundred yen) and provided packing tape for free. |
I managed to work around this by taking a round-trip Shinkansen trip[1] back to Tokyo to ship my bags from there, at the cost[2] of losing a day in Fukuoka, a Kirby Cafe reservation, and several hits to my pride. I did wind up going to a Japanese arcade for like the first time in my life and acquiring a crippling addiction to rhythm games, but that's a story for another time.
I've never sent baggage from a hotel though - I always just drag my baggage over to the nearest Yamato desk.
[0] And would only explain this to me in rather impenetrable manual keigo that resulted in them pulling out the Translator App of Shame.
[1] I had three bags plus backpack. The Shinkansen baggage limit is two bags per passenger, so I needed to get rid of at least one bag and ideally two.
[2] The monetary cost was zero - the JR Pass is like the god of train tickets and it's a shame they spiked the price.