Yamato Transport Taito Ueno Okachimachi Center — Local services in Tokyo

Probably the best luggage porting experience I've had here. Staff are great.

Hotels often charge you to fill out a form they're obviously unfamiliar with, konbinis have a language barrier. If you go to Yamato directly, they'll ask you to fill out an (English) form on your phone, you show the generated QR code, the forms are printed, they measure your bags and you pay. Amazingly efficient. No messing around with the carbon copy forms. They even provided a printout map showing the counter location at Narita. Thoroughly recommended.

The only gotcha is no credit card payments, so either put some money on an IC card (Suica etc), or pay in cash. It's 2-3k per bag to the airport.

This counter also advertises a bunch of 3rd party long-term luggage storage services even though Yamato doesn't do...

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