Originally Posted by evergrn

Absolutely. People do this all the time in Jpn. I do it all the time. You'll be able to forward a luggage from just about any hotel to any other hotel. When you check out of your ryokan#1 in Kyoto on your day6 in Jpn, tell the front desk staff that you want to ship out a luggage. There's a requisition form for the shipping company that you'll fill out. Well it's all in Jpanese so you'll have the hotel staff fill it out for you. On the requisition form, I put down the hotel name/address on the forwarding address line, and I put down my name followed by check-in date in paresthesis [ie, "John Smith (check-in 2/1/2015)"] on the recipient name line. If you send it out the morning of day6, I would think that it'd get to Tokyo the next day. You pay the ryokan, who'll in turn pay the shipping company. I forward stuff to hotels several days before the check-in date.