We’re changing hotels and moving around quite a few times. I’m trying to figure out when we would need to ship our luggage and how far ahead of time, and when it’s ok to take our luggage with us. I don’t want to be rude on the trains with large bags, but I don’t want to have to ship our luggage every few days either.
We are a party of 2 people and will likely have 1 smaller overnight sized suitcase and two larger suitcases. The smaller roller we’d always take and the 2 larger are what I’m thinking of shipping.
Here is what we have plus my questions/confusions:
Our trip in a nutshell is Tokyo > Kyoto Ryokan > Kyoto Hotel > Osaka
Day 1 – Arrive in Tokyo – I am assuming we can lug our bags from Haneda to our hotel in Shinjuku. I haven’t figured out our transport here yet but I’m assuming we’d take the train if we are allowed to have the large bags. if not then we need to figure out an alternative
Day 2- 5 in Tokyo – On day 5 we will ship our bags to the hotel we will be staying at on Day 7)
Day 6 – change hotels to a Ryokan in Kyoto for an overnight stay (we just have the small one for this stay)
Day 7 -10 – change hotels to a normal hotel in Kyoto. Receive luggage on day 7 from Tokyo
Day 11-13 Change Hotels to stay in Osaka in Namba (Do we need to ship our bags on Day 10? It’s not too long of a train ride to change cities, but if we need to ship our bags then I want to plan for it)
Fly out Day 14 from Osaka – Can we take our bags on the train to the airport or do we need to ship on day 12 to make sure they get there? Or figure out alternate transport
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Most of the time, you can absolutely take your huge luggage everywhere. Whether you would want to do it is another story because taking care of huge luggage in a crowded train is not fun.
You can absolutely take your luggage on the train from Haneda to Shinjuku. But taking airport limousine bus is probably easier.
Shipping your luggage in the morning of Day 6 is enough to make it arrive evening of Day 7. It’s overnight shipping for most part of the main islands.
You can absolutely take your luggage on the train from Kyoto to Namba.
You might want to try traveling with fewer or smaller luggage, make things much easier, just bring the essentials and minimum amount of clothes, you can easily do laundry in hotels.
Otherwise yes you can bring luggage yourself if you want. For larger luggage in the Shinkansen, you have to book space if the bags are oversized or if you do not want to have your bags with you at your seat, you can search Shinkansen oversized luggage in google to get more info.
I’m sure you have your reasons but 2 people and 3 cities? That said if you’re planning to leave one empty that make sense.