Niseko Ski, Snowboard & Luggage Storage

Your Niseko trip, one step at a time

1. Step 1 of 6

   Before Niseko: enjoy Kyoto without the equipment

   Explore Kyoto without your skis or snowboard before heading to Niseko. Send your ski or snowboard bag from a Yamato airport counter to Silk Crane, and spend the city days with only your suitcase. Silk Crane delivers your equipment to the mountain hotel for skiing or snowboarding.

   

   You can store the city suitcase for the ski days too. Silk Crane keeps city clothes or shopping in storage during your Hirafu stay, collecting the suitcase from your hotel front desk or a 7-Eleven. See luggage storage during ski days.

2. Step 2 of 6

   During the ski days

   Keep the skis or snowboard you use on the mountain with you, and ask your hotel or resort about its equipment storage. After the last run, send the equipment you no longer need to Silk Crane.

3. Step 3 of 6

   Leaving Niseko: send equipment, receive your suitcase

   The easiest place to send your skis or snowboard is your hotel front desk. Have the suitcase Silk Crane kept during your Niseko stay delivered to your next hotel.

   1. Sign up before you send anything. Silk Crane then gives you the address and the sending steps.
   2. Pack the gear. Silk Crane’s sending steps cover packing and the Yamato ski-bag cover; see the Yamato cover guide and Niseko waybill instructions.
   3. Keep your everyday essentials with you.

   Not sure your hotel can send it? Contact Silk Crane.

   

4. Step 4 of 6

   Then enjoy Sapporo

   Picture the three days after your Hirafu week. The ski bag is on its way into storage, your suitcase has reached your Sapporo hotel, and you spend the days sightseeing and eating instead of carrying. When you fly home, the winter equipment stays in Japan.

   

   See ideas for travel after the slopes.

5. Step 5 of 6

   While your gear is in storage

   Between the Sapporo days and next winter, Silk Crane keeps your skis, snowboards, boots and winter clothing in storage. The storage plans page shows the options, and the Hokkaido winter gear storage page explains keeping skis and snowboards between seasons.

   Silk Crane also offers protective oil treatment for ski and snowboard edges during storage; see anti-corrosion edge protection. Still choosing equipment? Compare rental and storage.

6. Step 6 of 6

   Next winter, or your next stop

   Back in Niseko next winter, you can have Silk Crane deliver your stored gear to a different hotel: no storage-site visit and no return to last winter's hotel. Choose your next base (the official Niseko United guide covers Hirafu, Hanazono, Niseko Village and Annupuri), then tell Silk Crane your next hotel and dates. See hotel delivery arrangements.

   Want the gear back before you fly home? Silk Crane can deliver stored gear to a Yamato pickup counter confirmed for your departure airport and terminal; see airport delivery arrangements.

Ready for a lighter Niseko trip?

Choose your Japan storage plan and send from your hotel front desk when the last ski day is done.