Japan Luggage Delivery & Shinkansen Baggage Guide (PDF)

Want to enjoy Hakone without dragging your suitcase along? Follow one Tokyo–Hakone–Kyoto journey to see how delivery, hotel receiving, Shinkansen baggage reservations, station storage, and airport pickup fit into a trip.

For travelers deciding whether to send, store, or carry a bag. 24-page English PDF · Six connected chapters · Waybill details, size rules, sources, and Google Maps links.

Each chapter ends with the relevant price, deadline, booking condition, or receiving requirement.

The Suitcase That Skipped Hakone

Mateo is leaving Tokyo for one night in Hakone before continuing to Kyoto. His first Kyoto address is an unstaffed machiya, so the suitcase is sent to a staffed hotel that has agreed to receive it under his exact reservation name.

This 24-page story follows one continuous journey: dispatch in Tokyo, reunion in Kyoto, a later Shinkansen return with a 164-centimetre case, a Multi-Ecube stop and airport delivery to a named Narita counter. Each chapter ends with the applicable price, dimension, booking rule, deadline or receiver requirement.

Inside

• Six connected narrative chapters from Tokyo dispatch to Kyoto reunion, Tokyo return and Narita pickup

• Hands-Free Travel and takkyubin as a real logistics network

• Staffed versus unstaffed accommodation receiving

• Japanese waybill fields and reservation-name matching

• Shinkansen 160 cm or less / over 160 cm up to 250 cm / over 250 cm rules

• Multi-Ecube and JR East Smart Logistics

• Airport terminal, airline, flight and cutoff details

• Official source links and Google Maps shortcuts

Mateo and the scene times are fictional. Size bands, example fares, booking conditions, storage periods and airport-delivery rules were fact-checked against the dated carrier and operator records in the evidence ledger on September 3, 2026.