Hakuba Ski, Snowboard & Luggage Storage

Your Hakuba trip, one step at a time

1. Step 1 of 5

   Tokyo before Hakuba: send your equipment ahead

   If Tokyo comes first, send your skis or snowboard to storage. After you sign up, Silk Crane gives you the sending steps. Then send your ski or snowboard bag from a Yamato airport counter, and enjoy Tokyo with your suitcase. Silk Crane delivers the gear to your Hakuba hotel when the ski days begin.

   The Tokyo ski and snowboard storage guide covers the city days.

2. Step 2 of 5

   At Hakuba: keep mountain gear, store city luggage

   Keep the skis or snowboard you use on the slopes with you.

   • Skiing again today: ask your hotel or resort whether it keeps gear, and until what time you can collect it.
   • Another ski resort next: send the gear straight on to that hotel.
   • City days, a side trip or next winter: send it to Silk Crane. For one month, see the one-month ski storage page.

   Send a spare suitcase of city clothes from your hotel or a 7-Eleven to Silk Crane for the Hakuba stay. Have it delivered to your hotel after the mountain trip. The Hakuba luggage-storage guide explains local holding and longer storage. Compare rental and storage.

3. Step 3 of 5

   Leaving Hakuba: send skis or a snowboard from your hotel

   Send your packed skis or snowboard from your hotel front desk. After you sign up, Silk Crane gives you the sending steps, including how to pack it and use the ski-bag cover. The Yamato waybill guide helps with the shipping form, and Yamato's ski shipping guide explains the carrier service.

4. Step 4 of 5

   Then enjoy Tokyo and Kyoto

   

   Picture a week around Happo-One, followed by Tokyo and Kyoto. Send your skis or snowboard from the hotel to storage. If Silk Crane kept your city suitcase during Hakuba, have it delivered to your next hotel and continue with the clothes you need. Our guide to exploring Japan after the slopes has ideas for the days in between.

5. Step 5 of 5

   Next winter, or the flight home

   Next winter you book a stay near Tsugaike, and Silk Crane delivers the bag to that hotel, with no trip back to last year's hotel to collect it. Tell Silk Crane which Hakuba hotel you booked. It can be the same hotel or another one in the valley. The hotel and resort delivery guide has the details.

   Want the gear back before you fly home? Silk Crane can deliver it to a Yamato pickup counter confirmed for your Japanese departure airport and terminal. The return delivery guide explains the steps.

Can you take skis on the shinkansen and the bus to the mountain?

Each railway and bus company sets its own rules for ski bags, so check your operator's baggage page before you travel. For the Hakuba, Nozawa and Myoko routes, that means the railway that runs your shinkansen line and the bus company on your route.

Silk Crane makes both legs easier. You hand your skis or snowboard to your hotel front desk or a Yamato counter, and Silk Crane delivers them to your ski hotel in resort areas such as Hakuba and Myoko. You ride the shinkansen and the bus with only your suitcase, which can also go from your hotel front desk or a 7-Eleven, and there is no ski bag to lift into a crowded carriage or onto a bus. After your ski days, Silk Crane collects the gear from your ski hotel's front desk, keeps it in storage and delivers it to a later hotel in Japan.

Quick answers

Can I drop my ski bag at a Silk Crane shop in Hakuba?

No. Silk Crane has no walk-in shop in Hakuba. Your hotel front desk is where you hand the bag over.

Can I store a suitcase too?

Yes. Silk Crane can keep the luggage you do not need during the ski stay and deliver it to your next hotel. See the extra luggage guide for ski stays.

More for your Hakuba trip

Luggage guides for the places you pass through in Hakuba:

• By area: Happo-One luggage guide, Iwatake luggage guide, Tsugaike luggage guide, Goryu and Hakuba47 luggage guide.
• Getting around: Hakuba Station and Happo Bus Terminal.
• Shopping: the Hakuba shopping guide.
• Ski gear: follow one trip with skis and a suitcase stored together, compare ways to send and store ski gear in Japan, or see how Silk Crane gets your ski gear to your next stay.
• Other resorts: the Honshu ski storage guide compares Nozawa Onsen, Shiga Kogen and the Myoko resorts.
• Resort information: the official Hakuba Valley guide has weather, lift status and transport links.

Ready for a lighter Hakuba journey?

Ski on your own gear, then leave it in Japan for the next visit. Choose your ski or snowboard storage plan and send it from your hotel front desk.

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