Hi guys, me and the wife are travelling next week on the shinkansen from Tokyo to nagano . We will have a normal airline hold type size suitcase each. I’ve looked on the Jr website and can see for suitcases where combined size width + breadth + length is less than 160cm ( which ours are – 155cm phew ) then no reservations are needed and you can just put them in the overhead rack thing. It even shows a picture of this. Only oversized baggage bigger than this needs special reservation. Does anyone have first hand experience of this and can confirm its ok to just rock up with a case each – we have tickets already booked with seats but no special mention of luggage? Its our first time in japan and there’s so much to take in and plan so I’m trying to not stress about everything so would be good to check this off. Thanks .
https://global.jr-central.co.jp/en/info/oversized-baggage/#:~:text=You%20can%20put%20baggage%20whose,baggage%20rack%20of%20the%20Shinkansen.
by darf_vadey