Not sure what the other details of your schedule are. If you don't want to carry luggage, you can send it ahead. Japan has a very efficient package shipping system called "takyubin". If you're staying at a hotel, the front desk can arrange to send your luggage onto the next hotel. You would have to check with the front desk about times, but you could probably send in the afternoon/evening before you check out and get it the next day soon after you arrive in Kyoto.