Do I declare tax-free purchases at Chitose or Haneda?

Hello! I am currently in Sapporo and shopped duty free anime merchandise. But a stressful thought fell when I realized my return travel plans…

We will be flying out of Chitose to Haneda, where we will have 1.5 hours to switch planes to fly to Seattle.

We will have two checked luggage (one oversized) too. I ASSUME, we don’t need to re-check those in at Haneda…

We were super stressed with our two hour layover of this flight itinerary when we came to Japan (1 hour in customs, 1 hour running to grab our bags to re-check them in at another terminal before our plane left).

I am so worried I screwed our chances of getting on our Seattle flight at Haneda. I ASSUME I need to declare my tax free purchases at Haneda. But won’t that take a long time? And dear god, do we actually need to re check in ours bags again!?

I am planning to pack my purchases in my carry on since every online post suggested that.

But what should I expect on this return trip? Should I pay the taxes at Chitose to save us? Can I do that at Chitose?

Advice and help is greatly appreciated!!!!

by Scottish_Terrier

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