Welp, it was inevitable, we’ve accumulated a ton of stuff since moving here and are now wondering how we can bring things back. We move back to the US in June and will be traveling with 2 cats, so ideally we’d love to just ship everything else and focus on keeping the cats happy/quiet/alive during travel. Thoughts?
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Japan Post surface mail. Can be 3-6 month though, buy it’s cheap.
If it is a TON of stuff then you should probably do a container or a half container. Some container services will sell you by the meter cubed if you need less.
Define “a ton of stuff”. If you are actually going to be “moving house” then get a moving company that can do this for you. It will take time for everything to show up but it will be the best option.
If you’re going to be getting rid of 90% of everything (and 100% of everything big) and want a way to get the rest back to the US, then use Japan Post Surface Mail as someone else mentioned. You can ship up to 30kg per box. I have used [these exact boxes](https://item.rakuten.co.jp/auc-lalachyan/dc108001/) for this before and would recommend them. They are large (140 size in Takyubin terms), double corrugated, and *extremely* strong. They will survive the mutli-month trip back by sea. The same company has larger and smaller boxes but I have generally found their 5W size to be optimal.
Make sure you tape the inside of the bottom of the boxes as well as the outside. Use good tape. Tape along all seams. For very heavy boxes (full of books for example) I have also wrapped them with those plastic straps that you can get at home centers. I even had the metal clamps and the special tool for clamping them at one point but no longer do.