Luggage forwarding

yep we sent our skis/board with the company Yamato transport its a Japanese company but they are so efficient. hope this helps.

thanks! I'll check them out...

If you are flying, first talk with your airline company. Sometimes you can book excess luggage at a fraction of the price of what you'd have to pay if you just rock up. That might be the best option if it's only skis you're sending & you're coming up with them...

I have also used Yamato to send stuff from the US to Kutchan. Not cheap but great service and fairly quick. Here's a link: [url]http://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/english/services/takkyu.html[/url]

If you're sending skis and planning on following them up then check out unaccompanied baggage. It's a great option if you're flying but you have to drop the stuff off at the airport 3 days before you fly, then it's waiting at your destination airport for you when you arrive. I used it to ship 80kgs (!?) worth of stuff once from Oz to Tokyo, then at the airport I used a Takkyubin service like Yamato to send it to my house up in Hokkaido.

Very competitve prices as I recall...

Best of luck

Thanks, Kuri, that's really helpful – Yamato seem to have a couple of votes.

(Last February, for the first time in 6 or 7 years, Qantas charged me a scary amount for my skis as excess baggage. On every previous trip to Niseko they'd just told me to take them to the outsize baggage counter, without any comment & no charge.)