Place to store luggage for 1 day?

[Taro Toporific]

I need a place to store my suitcase for one day in Tokyo. Close to shinjuku as possible.
Its 20" x 26" x 12".
Any advice appreciated.

Generally the zillions of regular coin lockers (200yen, 400yen, and 800yen for extra large) in Shinjuku station are emptied at 12:30am but they won't throw it away or anything. The N'EX (Narita Express) train in Shinjuku will store your stuff overnight ?somewhere?? near their main desk at Shinjuku. There's also Luggage Delivery Services that will hold luggage and forward luggage.

For more fun, read Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami.

[Gaisaradatsuraku!]

You are in luck sir! I have it on good authority that our resident muscle bound galoot, Mercutio, will soon be relocating to Tokyo. A suitcase of this size will fit comfortably inside his massive ego with room to spare!

and, I doubt he will charge you (but will probably talk your ear off!)

Why don't you give him a jingle?

[Taro Toporific]

are you sure the lockers at shinjuku station will be able to hold something this large? Where can I find the dimensions of the lockers?

The JR N'EX (Narita Express) office regularly handles skiis, pro golf bags, dead loan shark victims, and tactical nukes. Your suitcase is no sweat IF the SHinjuku is still accepting stuff. JR Ueno, Nartia, and Tokyo do storage but...I haven't used the Shinjuku office's storage in 10 years.

[GomiGirl]

Why don't you just takkyubin it to your final destination. It only takes a day and can be done at any convenience store for about the same as a large coin locker will cost you.

I never take suitcases out to the airport anymore as usually I am going from work and it is a pain to lug around suitcases on the Yamanote..

[Steve Bildermann]

are you sure the lockers at shinjuku station will be able to hold something this large? Where can I find the dimensions of the lockers?

The JR N'EX (Narita Express) office regularly handles skiis, pro golf bags, dead loan shark victims, and tactical nukes. Your suitcase is no sweat IF the SHinjuku is still accepting stuff. JR Ueno, Nartia, and Tokyo do storage but...I haven't used the Shinjuku office's storage in 10 years.

Oh - nice one Taro. You got

Narita - dead - victims - tactical nuke and suitcase *ALL* in one sentence.

That "whoo whoo whoo" sound you hear in the background is the two squads of Japanese Kidotai and five cars full of FBI/ CIA and NSA advisors pulling up outside.

[GomiGirl]

To add to Steve's post - it is not that unrealisitc.. I personally know somebody who is contracted to provide various governments with translations of "key words" into various languages that are used in spiders crawl through web-sites looking for suspicious characters and activities. I think most of us qualify as suspicious characters..

Conspiracy theorists of the world UNITE!! They ARE watching!!

[Taro Toporific]

The JR N'EX (Narita Express) office regularly handles skiis, pro golf bags, dead loan shark victims, and tactical nukes. Your suitcase is no sweat IF the SHinjuku is still accepting stuff. JR Ueno, Nartia, and Tokyo do storage but...I haven't used the Shinjuku office's storage in 10 years.

Oh - nice one Taro. You got
Narita - dead - victims - tactical nuke and suitcase *ALL* in one sentence.

Actually, remember the old dayz when a gaijin would just leave their frame backpack for the day with the stationmaster who would just set it on a bench near the entrance?

Ahhh... I still do that in Shikoku since I'm too cheap to pay for a coin locker.

[ramchop]

Where's the new/old place? You never know, you might have a FG neighbour who could help you out, unlikely, but it's possible.

[GomiGirl]

As I mentioned - Takkyubin to the new place. You can specify the delivery time and day. Then you don't have to lug it anywhere.

Take it to your nearest conbini and fill in the forms (the staff will help you if you know your new address) and send it to yourself at the new place and you can ask them to deliver it whatever day or time you want.

The takkyubin guys will store it for you!!!

[Steve Bildermann]

I didn't post this before cos I thought maybe you'd already know this.

Walk into any large department store, go to the 'customer service' counter and say 'Chotto azukete kudasai' You can leave just about anything and pick it up same day at closing.

You can do the same thing at any big hotel (Otani for instance) ask for the 'cloak room' If you tell them it's overnight for a guset coming in next day, no problem.

Both cost nothing and are very convenient. I've been doing this for years.

[Taro Toporific]

... Would anyone using that station be willing to ask the dimensions of the lockers for me? Or give me some other alternative...

What I'm suggesting to storing it at the JR N'EX desk and size is not issue.

Standard Japanese coin lockers are:
H 1,82cm x W 440cm x D 45.5cm

Oversize
63cm x 32cm x 55.5cm, and you can even be put a bike knocked-down inside that

[Big Booger]

just find some hidden alley or garbage dump. Put it down.. no one is going to touch it Come back later and pick it up. Roof tops of buildings work nice, hide it in a depaato.. somewhere.. and come back.

[Steve Bildermann]

just find some hidden alley or garbage dump. Put it down.. no one is going to touch it. Come back later and pick it up. Roof tops of buildings work nice, hide it in a depaato.. somewhere.. and come back.

Hmmmmm that idea sounds like one of my favorite episodes from "Shinjuku Keisatsu Monogatari"

Big Gaijin walks into crowded department store with big heavy suitcase. Video cameras and store staff *don't* notice him.

Big Gaijin then walks around with big suitcase not buying or even looking at anything but searching for unattended areas where nobody is working. Perhaps even tries to go to rooftop with big suitcase
Video cameras and store staff still *don't* notice him.

Big Gaijin later walks out of crowded department store without suitcase.
Again Video cameras and store staff *don't* notice him.

Big Gaijin comes back later to pick up suitcase that has been left hidden and unattended in crowded department store. Store staff and a few friends from the Keisatsusho greet him and invite him to stay for a while.

Next day Big Gaijin gets his own write up in Japan Today and creates new topic on FG forum.

Yeah that'll work nicely.

[Big Booger]

You never know

hehehe

The garbage dump will work, if an only if they don't come to empty it :P

[Steve Bildermann]

You never know

hehehe

The garbage dump will work, if an only if they don't come to empty it :P

Actually yes that would work. Put it in the sodai gomi along with the other three month old stereo's, videos with one button missing, perfectly good 30" TV's with a little scratch on the top (I'm describing my living room BTW) full set of Arnold Palmer golf woods, black full leather executive chair and fully functional Sony top of the line desktop computer with keyboard missing two key caps.

Trust me nobody would touch it. (except us low down dirty FG)

[40 Fl. oz.]

Does anyone know the size of the large lockers at IIDABASHI-EKI???

[Taro Toporific]

Does anyone know the size of the large lockers at IIDABASHI-EKI???

I'm going that area by car tomorrow afternoon, and MAYBE I can measure them. I'll post the sizes Sat. night.

... Would anyone using that station be willing to ask the dimensions of the lockers for me? Or give me some other alternative...

Standard Japanese coin lockers are:
H 1,82cm x W 440cm x D 45.5cm

Oversize
63cm x 32cm x 55.5cm, and you can even be put a bike knocked-down inside that

[ramchop]

What's the motive for travelling within the Yamanote loop by car? Are you insane?? It's not as though Iidabashi is a difficult place to get to by train.


I'm walking past some Iidabashi-eki lockers this afternoon. Not sure if they're the big ones. The big ones might be in a corner that smells of urine, and I don't often go there.

[kamome]

May I just interject that this is the funniest damn thread I have read in a long time? I'm about to pee my pants here.

[Taro Toporific]

May I just interject that this is the funniest damn thread I have read in a long time? I'm about to pee my pants here.

Ah ha! So you're one of the persons peeing by the lockers.

[kamome]

Ah ha! So you're one of the persons peeing by the lockers.

Hey, I do NOT appreciate the suggestion that I am a panty-wearing, exhibitionistic cross-dresser.

[Taro Toporific]

Ah ha! So you're one of the persons peeing by the lockers.

Hey, I do NOT appreciate the suggestion that I am a panty-wearing, exhibitionistic cross-dresser.

But you are the juicy one, "Kamome(tm)," right?


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[Taro Toporific]

Does anyone know the size of the large lockers at IIDABASHI-EKI???

Big enough to fit Rob Pongi IF you cut him up and spread the parts of him in three lockers.

I measured the coin lockers at Idabashi nishi guchi and that exit only has lockers in one size: 55cm X 30cm X 45 cm.

[kamome]

But you are the juicy one, "Kamome(tm)," right?

KAMOME juice is more akin to a protein shake, my friend.