Coin Lockers and Luggage Storage at Japan's Regional Train Stations

Typical locker price range by station (small to extra-large)

Kanazawa Station

Kanazawa Station's coin lockers are split across the ANTO and Rinto sides of the building, roughly 890 lockers in total across several locker banks. Most banks are open 24 hours; a couple of smaller ones inside Rinto keep shorter hours (around 05:30-22:00 or 08:30-22:00). Daily rates run from about ¥400 for a small locker up to ¥700 for extra-large.

If every locker you check is full, a staffed temporary luggage counter near ANTO's east gate holds bags from 09:30 to 19:30 for ¥600 (locker-sized) or ¥1,200 (larger than a locker). An ecbo cloak partner counter inside the station is a second fallback if you would rather book a spot online before you arrive.

Odawara Station

Odawara is the usual transfer point for Hakone, so lockers here fill up on weekend mornings. Sizes run from a standard 24-inch-suitcase locker (roughly ¥600-800) up to a large locker around ¥1,000; some machines take IC cards, others take coins only, so keep ¥100 coins on hand as a backup.

If the lockers are full, the station's tourist information counter holds bags for ¥1,000 per item from about 08:30 to 16:30. Confirm the counter's current hours before you plan around it, since tourist-counter hours change more often than the coin lockers themselves.

Matsumoto Station

Matsumoto Station spreads its lockers across five spots on the 2nd and 3rd floors, all a short walk from the ticket gates. Four sizes are available at roughly ¥400, ¥500, ¥700, and ¥1,000 per day. Large-size lockers are the ones that run out first, especially in castle-visit season, so check more than one bank before assuming the station is full.

A coin-exchange machine in the 2nd-floor waiting room helps if you only have bills, but carrying ¥100 coins in advance is still the safer plan. If nothing is free, Matsumoto Castle's management office and the station's tourist information center both take paid overflow luggage.

Takayama Station

Lockers sit just outside Takayama Station's east exit on the 1st floor, plus a second bank at the adjoining Nohi Bus terminal. Large lockers that fit a full-size suitcase run about ¥700-900 per day, and the maximum stay is 3 days including the day you drop the bag off.

The Hida Takayama Tourist Information Office, also at the east exit, runs a staffed baggage counter with English-speaking staff, open roughly 08:30-18:30 (April-October) or 08:30-17:00 (November-March) — a practical fallback for an oversized bag or a locker bank that is already full.

Nikko: Tobu Nikko and JR Nikko are separate stations

Nikko has two stations a few minutes' walk apart, and most visitors arrive at Tobu Nikko rather than JR Nikko. Tobu Nikko's 1st-floor lockers (to the left of the ticket gates) run about ¥600-900 for medium through extra-large; smaller ¥400 lockers are upstairs on the 2nd floor. JR Nikko's lockers, to the right of its own ticket gates, run four sizes from about ¥400 to ¥900.

Both banks take ¥100 coins only, and the Tobu side has a change counter at the bus ticket window if you arrive without coins. If you are storing bags before a shrine visit and the station lockers are full, a Radical Storage partner shop near Tobu Nikko is a paid backup, typically around ¥950/day.

Rinku Town Station (for Kansai Airport transfers)

Rinku Town is the station just before Kansai Airport on the Nankai and JR lines (every train except the Haruka limited express stops here), which makes it a useful place to drop bags before a few hours at Rinku Premium Outlets rather than hauling them through the outlet mall. The station has its own coin lockers, and Rinku Premium Outlets separately runs a paid luggage counter open roughly 10:00-20:00, about ¥600-1,000 per item per day.

If you are storing bags specifically to make a Kansai Airport connection easier, check the airport's own coin lockers too. Airport-side lockers are more expensive but save you the Rinku Town-to-airport train leg entirely if your flight timing is tight.

Ryōgoku Station

Ryōgoku (JR Sōbu Line, Tokyo) is the stop for the Sumo Museum and Ryōgoku Kokugikan, and its coin lockers sit inside the ticket gates near the west exit. The station's Multi-Ecube locker bank has three sizes, small (22 units), medium (12 units), and large (14 units), running roughly ¥300-800 per day depending on size.

For a staffed backup, the Ryogoku Tourist Information Center at Ryogoku-Edo NOREN, directly connected to the station's west exit, holds and delivers luggage during its normal hours (10:00-18:00, extended to 19:00 during a Grand Sumo Tournament at the adjacent Kokugikan). Lockers fill up fastest on tournament days, so the tourist center is the more reliable option if you are visiting specifically for sumo.

Chain hotels: what Toyoko Inn and similar chains actually hold

Toyoko Inn's official policy is that a property can hold luggage from the morning of your check-in date until check-in time, but this depends on that specific hotel's space that day, so it is not guaranteed the way a coin locker is. If you are sending a bag ahead by courier to a Toyoko Inn (or asking the front desk to hold one), write the reservation number and the guest name exactly as it appears on the passport, or the front desk may not be able to match the bag to your booking.

After check-out, whether a Toyoko Inn (or another budget chain) will still hold your bag varies by property and is not standardized chain-wide. For a same-day drop-off or a policy question specific to your hotel, a phone call to that property gets a definite answer faster than searching for a chain-wide policy that may not apply to your location. See the companion guide on the call site for a longer walkthrough of hotel-side storage before check-in and after check-out.