I’m living in Yamanashi, and today, I went to the bike shop that I bought my bike from to unregister it and sell it. However, the bike shop owner (very old ojiisan) said he wouldn’t do it because I didn’t bring the receipt with the registration number on it. However, I remember when I bought the bike from him, he filled out that receipt, but he kept it for himself and didn’t give it to me (at the time I didn’t know I was supposed to receive it). At the time, he just gave me a handwritten note of the price of the bike. I tried to tell him I didn’t receive that receipt from him, but he still refused to unregister my bike and told me to go home and find the receipt. I’ll try to look through my stuff one more time to see if I actually received it, but in the case that I didn’t, what should I do to unregister my bike? I’m moving to Tokyo in 3 days, so if I can’t find the receipt, I’m not sure what I should do with my bike before moving.
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It may depend on the prefecture, but you can do that by taking your ID and bicycle to a koban or police station.
I don’t know how it would work in terms of registration transfer but I’m also in Yamanashi and have been looking and getting a new/used road bike if that’s what you have and would wanna sell it somewhere aside from the bike shop
It’s going to depend on your situation, but a while back I gave my bicycle to my friend. It was an older bike with almost no resale value, and I went to the local bike shop without any proof of purchase or registration and asked the man if we could register it to my friend, and he let us do so.
Probably he didn’t have to let us do so, because I didn’t have the receipt or proof that I had registered it, but he knew that older bikes are probably no longer in the system, and since the bike was worth nothing anyway, the odds of it being a stolen bike getting resold were low.
Might depend on prefecture but bike shops are legally required to keep a record of the bikes they registered. If you tell him when you bought it he should be able to look it up. However it’s probably less of a “cannot” and more of a “don’t want to” situation.
Better ask at the police station too. In some prefectures they can help you there. In some others it must be a bike shop.