What kind of company is Yamato?
Our Retail Business provides high-quality, small-lot transportation services, including TA-Q-BIN, to all types of individual and corporate customers in Japan.
Tokyo
How fast is Yamato shipping?
Approximately 6 to 10 days for delivery.
Please contact Customer Service Center (0120-17-9625, 9am-6pm, 365 days a year) for further details.
What is surface mail Japan?
This is a service where international mail is handled as surface mail in both Japan and the destination country and as airmail between the two countries. Two varieties of SAL are available, depending on the weight and size of your package.
Takuhaibin (宅配便) is a convenient, moderately priced service for sending parcels, luggage and other types of goods from door to door nationwide. Delivery is usually on the next day. Yamato Transport started the service in the 1970s and remains the market leader with their Takkyubin service.13-Aug-2022
How much does Yamato cost?
250,000,897 JPY
Surface Mail (otherwise known as Sea Mail), is the cheapest shipping method but is also the slowest; it takes about one to three months for a package to reach its destination.23-Sept-2020
What items Cannot be sent to Japan?
Japan strictly prohibits entry of narcotics and related utensils, firearms, firearm parts and ammunition, explosives and gunpowder, precursor materials for chemical weapons, germs that are likely to be used for bioterrorism, counterfeit goods or imitation coins or currency, obscene materials, or goods that violate 08-Jan-2022
UPS
Can I ship packages from Japan to USA?
Transit time from Japan to U.S.A. is about four to six weeks or so depending on the shipping destination within the USA. The actual port-to-port shipping time from Japan to California is only 11 days.
Do you do pick-ups and delivery on Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, and the year-end and new year's holiday? Yes, we do pick-ups and deliveries every day. * Please note that some Yamato Transport sales office are closed on Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.
What is Yamato Japan?
Yamato (Japanese: 大和) was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan, which became Yamato Province and by extension a name for the whole of Japan. Yamato is also the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan.
Service Overview
How do you make Chakubarai?
No it's not, it's actually the worst type of shipping to use. Incredibly slow, unreliable, not registered, no tracking and there's a chance your parcel could get damaged or worse without any type of reprieve since it's not registered.
How reliable is EMS shipping?
The Universal Postal Union created the EMS Cooperative to develop express delivery worldwide. Is EMS shipping safe? Yes, EMS delivers 8 million packages every week to over 180 designated countries.28-Jun-2021
1 to 3 months
How much is Chakubarai?
Chakubarai is quite straighforward. It is also available from most Takyubin services as well as from Japan Post. It simply means that for a small fee (20 yen) the post office will collect the cost of mailing the item from the person receiving the package.11-Jun-2020
Yu-Pack parcels can be sent not only from post offices but also at locations handling Yu-Pack parcels such as convenience stores. Collection service is also available. The state of delivery can be checked by using the inquiry number on the Yu-Pack label.
Can I send luggage by post?
Weight and Size (2) The length of a parcel should not exceed 1 meter and the length and girth combined should not exceed 1.80 meters. (3) No parcel shall be such that, by reason of its shape, manner of packing or any other feature, it cannot be carried by post without serious inconvenience or risk.
What kind of company is Yamato?