I live in Japan and I used Yamato Ta-q-bin many times in these years.
Now I would like to use it to ship my 2 luggages to Haneda from Kyushu, in order to find them there on the day of my departure back home (International flight).
Is there anyone who experienced this before? I’m planning to send them like 5 days before the departure (I don’t need them in my 2 days stay in Tokyo).
My idea is simply to find them in Haneda just before my international flight check-in.
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We did it this summer. You should figure out where your airline’s check-in counter will be so you can send it to the right place, they have like four different luggage pickup counters for Haneda.
Make sure to bring the receipt you get to the airport, you need that number to pick up your luggage.
I did it, went super smooth, but I did it two days before taking a flight. Used kuro neko Yamato.
Did this. It was fine.
But how many days might be an issue, or cost you more. I think the company can delay shipping for a few days for free (maybe), but at the airport they’ll charge you over a 24 period–a few years ago, it was 2500 yen per day.
I did the “opposite” once, shipped from Narita (or Haneda?) airport to home ( Okinawa) upon arriving from an international flight, and they said due to heavy volume, it would take longer than normal. I was fine with that, but mentioning it because obviously a longer shipping time to Haneda would not be good in the OP’s case. FYI, I arrived on Jan 1.
Yes. I do it a couple of times a year. 5 days ahead is good, 4 is good, 3 days is cutting it close and 2 days sometimes they won’t guarantee it will get there on time for your flight.
You can call Yamato to pick up luggage from your home. They’ll bring the blank denpyo to fill out, but I highly recommend you contact the Yamato office in Haneda international terminal to get their exact address, ahead of time. The local Yamato employees don’t know the Haneda international airport office addresses. In fact I had one guy once insist I must want to send it to Narita Airport because that’s the ‘”International Airport”.
Usually when I get back from overseas in Haneda, I also send my bags back to Fukuoka through Yamato. But I grab some extra pre-printed Denpyo forms which have the Yamato Haneda International address written on them for the next time I need to send luggage there.
If you are close to Fukuoka airport, or any major airport in Kyushu, you can drop off your luggage there, ahead of time at the Yamato baggage counter. That’s the only Yamato that knows the Haneda international terminal address (AKA Terminal 3).