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Haile_Selassie_I 
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Post subject: Random Japan Question...... to do with shipping!
 Posted: Sep 07, 2010 - 05:23 PM
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So this might be a bit out of place, but on the off chance of someone knowing summat!
Does anyone have experience of either:
a) shipping a snowboard bag (160x40x20 cm approx. 20kg) within Japan.... say from Tokyo to Sapporo?
b) shipping a snowboard bag to Japan (Sapporo) from the UK?
....there seems to be a million companies that do this kind of thing but I don't really know who to trust sending my wifeys to the other side of the world.
Any help?
God blesss... |
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adam_2005
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Post subject: RE: Random Japan Question...... to do with shipping!
Posted: Sep 07, 2010 - 06:09 PM
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It's super expensive to send a whole board bag. My advice is to wrap up your board only in bubble wrap & cardboard and send that, and take everything else on the plane.
As for trusting them, just get it insured, you can never be sure of what can happen between here and there.
I got seriously stung last time because I paid around £400 to get my board bag there and back from Japan with the airline.
I'll be sending mine to Niseko (near Sapporo) in November and will be doing the above with DHL. |
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adam_2005
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Post subject: RE: Random Japan Question...... to do with shipping!
Posted: Sep 07, 2010 - 06:11 PM
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| (oh, and you can send internal within Japan, but it takes a few days to get there and I'm not sure how much it costs. I know that most hotels in Toyko will arrange the shipping it for you. Internal Japanese flights charge an insane price for ski equipment on internal flights, so posting is the way forward) |
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Haile_Selassie_I
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Post subject: RE: Random Japan Question...... to do with shipping!
Posted: Sep 07, 2010 - 06:25 PM
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cheers... thought DHL would be on the expensive side but I'll give them a quiz now.
I was planning to stuff my board bag full, cause I'm going to travel to Niseko (me too) by land and sea and make a lot of stops on the way and didn't want to lug too much with me.
Thanks for the infos! |
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adam_2005
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Post subject: RE: Random Japan Question...... to do with shipping!
Posted: Sep 07, 2010 - 07:36 PM
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Posted: Sep 07, 2010 - 10:02 PM
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shipped mine last year from Narita to Sapporo. Board, boots and clothing cost ¥3000 and delivered on the day I asked for.
Got it to Narita within the free allowance (JAL) |
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Posted: Sep 08, 2010 - 06:39 AM
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| Have JAL changed their policy? We flew Heathrow to Kansai, Kansai to Chitose with our suitcases and board bags in Jan 09 without any problems. |
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Haile_Selassie_I
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Posted: Sep 08, 2010 - 08:09 AM
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This thread was designed to reduce my options, not increase them!
Adam, I'm going to be teaching for NAC.... I'm also on the "back-up" list for NBS, but I think I'll take the NAC job just because it's a definite thing.
Woody.... do you remember the company you used? Was it Yamato or Sagawa by any chance? 3000 sounds right up my street!
And when you say "delivered on the day I asked for" what kind of time frame was that? I don't actually want my board to arrive in Niseko till over a month after I get into Narita.
Sorry for all the questions, but it's a tricky one to work out! |
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Posted: Sep 08, 2010 - 11:09 AM
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ah, I think we used ANA services. There is a desk at Narita where they'll sort it out for you.
Delivery was 2 weeks later and to our apartment door.
¥3000 was for delivery within Sapporo, Niseko might be a little more but not too much I'm sure |
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Posted: Sep 08, 2010 - 06:05 PM
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| Sorry about hijacking the thread but does anyone know whether board bags can be taken on the sleeper train from Tokyo to Sapporo as I know most sleeper trains are a bit tight for space? |
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Posted: Sep 13, 2010 - 01:29 PM
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can't help you wigsy sorry!
Cheers for the help fellas.... I think I'm going to go with the ANA option, as proposed by woody. Just found out that my luggage allowance with BA is 2 bags weighing 23kg each! boom, happy days! |
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Post subject: Re: Random Japan Question...... to do with shipping!
Posted: Sep 13, 2010 - 02:39 PM
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Haile_Selassie_I wrote:
Any help?
God blesss...
surely Jah bless would have got you more responses  |
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Post subject: RE: Re: Random Japan Question...... to do with shipping!
Posted: Sep 28, 2010 - 09:20 AM
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Haillie, don't worry. The Yamato Kuroneko (Black Cat Company) will send your bag from the airport for 3000 yen. It will get there usually the next day or the day after, you can ask them when you send it. Don't worry about it not getting there, over here things work the way they are meant to. The courier companies are very good at what they do and your gear will be there on the date they say it will. Most Japanese people use this service instead of carrying their bags to and from the resort. You can use the Sagawa peole as well, it makes no difference. When you clear customs at Narita and come through into the lobby, turn right and go to the end of the hall. Look for a Black Cat sign and they will help you fill in the form. Have the address of your digs handy.
Don't know about the sleeper train for sure. However the Shinkansen trains that go to the snowy regions have racks between the cars for skis and board bags (they also fit overhead on the luggage rail) so I'd imagine that there will be some limited space for boards etc if its going up to Sapporo |
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