Originally Posted by
bitterproffit
2) If you are changing hotels around the area, use a luggage forwarding service. It is explained in the Tips thread and it was such a great idea. Nothing like checking into your hotel and having your luggage waiting for you in your room and you didn't have to lug it through subway and train stations to get there.
These pink slips are absolute magic, they make your luggage disappear and reappear at your next hotel, airport etc.
Don’t worry about filling them in, one hotel will organise shipping from one to the next.
Japanese people generally don’t travel with lots of luggage, the ship it. Trains, especially a busy Shinkansen are not really equipped to deal with anything larger than a carryon. Wrestling a large suitcase around the Tokyo public transport system is no fun either. It’s pretty cheap as well.
