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Just a query as to the viability/reliability of Takkyubin. In the early stages of planning " the big trip" to Japan and looking at 3 days in Tokyo at the beginning to beat the jetlag and see the sights/culture. I've come across this service where you can land at Narita, go to a desk and forward your luggage to your hotel 0n Hokkaido for 2200yen, it arrives 2 days later, ( you also buy one of their ski bag covers for 400yen or so). To my eye this looks fantastic, no extra baggage on the internal flight, no lugging ski gear into/out of central Tokyo or leaving it in left luggage. My question is, whats the catch, is there a catch, how come everyone isn't doing this.Seems like a no brainer to me.Thanks 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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If it's anything like usual Jap service it'll be excellent.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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No catch at all. It'll be where you want it, when they say it will be. Most people do use it for sending on luggage / bulky items when travelling in Japan. It makes travelling by shinkansen or local flights very easy.
Incidentally I was just at the Fuji Rock festival last weekend. Most people had all their tents/camping stuff for the weekend sent in to be collected at a marquee at the site entrance, and then sent back home again at the end of the festival. Incredibly convenient!
The main companies are Yamato (known as Kuroneko for its black cat logo) or Sagawa.
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We've used the luggage forwarding services several times in Japan. Really reliable and convenient. Go for it.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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spyderjon, MagSeven, sugarmoma666, Thanks people, makes things a lot easier.
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briand6868, used it to send our luggage from Shiga Kogen to Narita we went off to Tokyo for three days, worked a treat. The place we stayed at sorted it all out for us, everyone in Japan uses it.
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We used it quite a bit during honeymoon in 2010.
Sent our large suitcases onto the next hotel for longer stayovers and used a smaller cabin sized case for the 2-3 day trips in between. The hotels filled the forms out for us and relative to the convenience it cost hardly anything. Superb service!!
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