More than 100 locker banks sit inside Tokyo Station, and the rate on the door is the easy half. The charge follows a clock that resets at 02:00, and no box will hold a bag past three days.
- L box, one day
- ¥900–1,000
- Day rolls over
- 02:00
- Longest stay
- 3 days
1What a locker costs in 2026
Four sizes, four prices: SS at ¥300, S at ¥500, M at ¥700–800 and L at ¥900–1,000 for a day. The band holds across the station's 100-odd banks, and the size chart on the door plus the touch panel beside it are what set your bill.
Payment is the part the name gets wrong. The boxes take a Suica or another IC card, a QR code or a credit card, and the coins are optional.
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| Size | One day | Two days | Three days |
|---|---|---|---|
| SS | ¥300 | ¥600 | ¥900 |
| S | ¥500 | ¥1,000 | ¥1,500 |
| M | ¥700–800 | ¥1,400–1,600 | ¥2,100–2,400 |
| L | ¥900–1,000 | ¥1,800–2,000 | ¥2,700–3,000 |
Peak pricing moves one number: the bookable boxes add ¥100–200 to M and L in busy weeks, on the first day only. From day two the normal rate applies, whatever the season.
If the bag can travel without you, luggage forwarding wins: one hand-in at an airport counter and it is waiting at the hotel desk. For an afternoon, the box wins.
2The 02:00 clock and the three-day cap
A locker's day is not 24 hours. It is a calendar day that flips at 02:00, and the deposit day counts as one whatever the hour. Drop a case at 23:00 and collect it at 09:00 the next morning and you have bought two days. Collect it at 01:30 instead and you have bought one.
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Three days is the hard ceiling, counted from the deposit day. Walk away and the operator unlocks the box, moves the contents to its own storage and keeps them 30 days at the extra-day rate. After that they are treated as abandoned. Money does not buy a fourth day in the box.
Revised locker terms apply to anything deposited from 02:00 on 31 October 2026. The clock and the three-day cap read the same in the new version. What moved is the list of what may not go in a box, so a bag left either side of that date is charged identically.
Pay with an IC card and the same card is the key back in, which is one reason to keep a topped-up Suica in a pocket rather than in the suitcase.
3Which bank has the big boxes
Six of the station's biggest banks sit in the table below, and the L column is the one that decides where you walk.
| Bank | Ticket gates | SS | S | M | L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yaesu north, by the Shinkansen gates | Outside | 5 | 80 | 51 | — |
| Marunouchi central gate | Inside | — | 40 | 19 | — |
| Marunouchi B1 central and north gates | Inside | — | 91 | 37 | — |
| Marunouchi north free passage | Outside | — | 39 | 26 | — |
| B1 GRANSTA | Inside | — | 728 | 152 | 40 |
| Keiyo underground passage | Inside | 5 | 78 | 33 | — |
Read the L column again: 40 boxes at B1 GRANSTA, inside the gates, in the station's largest bank at around 920 boxes, and nowhere else. The Marunouchi north bank outside the gates runs 39 S and 26 M with no L at all, and Yaesu north has 80 S and 51 M and none either. A 28-inch case goes to GRANSTA or to a counter; there is no third answer.
All six run from the first train to the last, which is longer than the staffed counters and the reason a box still works for a 06:30 departure. The Keiyo passage bank is the quiet one, on the way to the Disney resorts rather than on the way to a Shinkansen platform.
For a three-day Tokyo loop, one L box on the way in and one collection on the way out is the whole plan, since the three-day route passes the station at both ends.
4Booking a box before you arrive
JR East Smart Logistics books the multi-function boxes through Multiecube, with live availability by size, date and location. Reservations open one month ahead.
The booking fee is ¥500 per box per booking, flat, whatever the size and however many days. It sits on top of the day rate, so a one-day S box booked in advance costs about ¥1,000 against ¥500 at the panel. That is worth paying for a Saturday arrival, a fixed 10:00 plan or a case you cannot wheel round the concourse, and not worth paying for a Tuesday afternoon.
A booked box runs three days including the start day on the same 02:00 clock. Extending has to be filed by 02:00 on the day after the booked end date, and no extension takes the total past three days. Cancel after 02:00 on the start day and you pay in full, used or not. A ¥500-a-month membership drops the booking fee altogether, which pays from the second booking.
Which bank to book depends on where you sleep, and the hotel areas guide sorts the addresses by the exit you will actually use, Yaesu or Marunouchi.
Counter space can also be booked before you arrive, through ecbo cloak, at three of the counters: the GRANSTA B1 cloak, BAGGAGE STORAGE+ and the Travel Service Center cloak. The price is set per space on ecbo's site.
5The counters that take a case a locker cannot
Six staffed counters take the bags a box will not: over 200 cm on the three sides, an awkward shape, or a day when every L box has gone. Rates are per item per day, tax included: S up to 100 cm ¥500, M up to 200 cm ¥1,000, L over 200 cm ¥2,000. Four of the six sit inside the ticket gates.
Yaesu south baggage counter 東京駅お荷物サービスカウンター
- Address
- Tokyo Station, Yaesu south exit, outside the ticket gates · 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005 · Map
- Phone
- +81 80-4130-9106
- Hours
- 09:30–20:00
- Closed
- Open every day
BAGGAGE STORAGE+
- Address
- Tokyo Station, GRANSTA B1 north exit, inside the ticket gates · 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005 · Map
- Phone
- +81 80-9182-7507
- Hours
- 09:30–20:00
- Closed
- Open every day
Shinkansen south transfer gate counter 新幹線南のりかえ口改札前
- Address
- Tokyo Station, inside the gates in front of the Shinkansen south transfer gate · 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005 · Map
- Phone
- +81 90-6539-2694
- Hours
- 09:00–21:00
- Closed
- Open every day
Marunouchi central gate counter 南北通路手荷物預かり所
- Address
- Tokyo Station, inside the Marunouchi central gate, north and south passages · 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005 · Map
- Phone
- +81 90-6535-8848
- Hours
- 10:00–20:00
- Closed
- Open every day
GRANSTA B1 cloak service B1 グランスタ内クロークサービス
- Address
- Tokyo Station, GRANSTA B1, inside the ticket gates · 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005 · Map
- Phone
- +81 3-5288-5911
- Hours
- 08:30–21:00, same-day receipt until 20:30
JR East Travel Service Center cloak JR東日本トラベルサービスセンター内クローク
- Address
- Tokyo Station, Marunouchi north exit, outside the ticket gates · 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005 · Map
- Phone
- +81 3-5221-8123
- Hours
- 08:30–20:00
- Closed
- Open every day
Two counters stay open past 20:00 — the Shinkansen transfer gate counter and the GRANSTA B1 cloak, both running to 21:00 — so they are the late-arrival answer. Storage runs to 30 days at Tokyo, and each item is charged on its own: a tote sitting on top of a suitcase is a second item, charged by its own class.
Collection has to happen by that counter's closing time, and a delayed train does not extend it.
Against an L box the counter loses on a short stay and wins on a long one. One day: ¥2,000 against ¥900–1,000. Three days: ¥6,000 against ¥2,700–3,000, so the box still wins if the case fits and a box is free.
From day four the box is out of the question, because the bag is pulled at 02:00 after the third day, and a week in Tokyo is a counter booking made on arrival.
The bag question usually lands on day one, in the middle of everything else, and the first-trip order puts it beside the IC card and the airport train for that reason.
6Cold food, closing times and the gates
Daimaru's food floor on B1 has a bank of refrigerated lockers on the Kanda side, ¥100 a use, paid by coin or by touch. They are for the day only: the power is cut when the store closes, so nothing bought in the food hall stays there overnight.
Closing time decides more than the price. The coin lockers run from the first train to the last, so a 23:00 arrival is fine. Two counters close at 21:00 — the Shinkansen south transfer gate counter and the GRANSTA B1 cloak — and the rest shut at 20:00. The earliest opening is 08:30 (GRANSTA B1 cloak and the Travel Service Center cloak), which matters if you land at Narita on a morning flight. Miss the closing time and the bag waits for the next morning, with an overtime charge on the counter's own rate.
Four of the six large banks sit inside the ticket gates, and so do four of the six counters. If you are not boarding a train, getting to them means a platform ticket (入場券), bought at a machine or tapped with an IC card, and the rule holds even when a counter is all you came for.
The outside-gates options are the Yaesu north bank, the Yaesu south counter and the Travel Service Center cloak at Marunouchi north.
A case and three nights in Tokyo: an L box at B1 GRANSTA on the way in, collected on the way out. Four nights or more, and it goes to the Yaesu south counter on arrival instead, because the fourth day does not exist in a box. The five-day plan touches the station on day one and day five, which is the shape a locker suits.
| For the bag plan | Why it matters here | Check tickets |
|---|---|---|
| Tokyo hotels | The exit you book decides which bank you can reach on foot with a case | Trip.com Klook KKday |
| Keisei Skyliner | The Narita train lands at Ueno, and a locker there is the same three-day deal | Trip.com Klook KKday |
| Japan eSIM | Live locker availability and the counter's phone number are checked on the day | Trip.com Airalo eSIMania |
7Questions and answers
The rates, the clock, the banks and the gates, in the order a bag gets dropped.
How much does a locker cost at Tokyo Station?
SS boxes are 300 yen, S 500 yen, M 700 to 800 yen and L 900 to 1,000 yen for the first day. M and L can carry a 100 to 200 yen surcharge in busy and peak weeks, and the touch panel beside the box shows the price you will actually pay.
What time does the locker day end?
At 02:00. A day is a calendar day that rolls over at two in the morning, not 24 hours from the moment you lock the box, and the deposit day and the collection day each count in full however few hours you use.
How long can I leave a bag in a locker?
Three days including the day you deposit it. After that the operator unlocks the box, moves the contents and stores them separately for 30 days at the same rate as an extra day, then treats them as abandoned.
Can I book a locker at Tokyo Station before I arrive?
Yes, on the Multiecube site, from one month ahead. The booking fee is 500 yen per box per booking whatever the size or the number of days, and a booked box runs three days on the same 02:00 clock.
Which lockers take a large suitcase?
The L boxes, and the supply is thin: 40 of them inside the ticket gates at the B1 GRANSTA bank, and none at the Yaesu north or Marunouchi north banks. Anything over 200 cm on the three sides goes to a staffed counter at 2,000 yen a day.
Do I need a ticket to reach the lockers inside the gates?
Yes, if you are not boarding a train. Four of the six large banks and four of the six counters sit inside the ticket gates, and reaching them means a platform ticket bought at a machine or tapped with an IC card.
Keep reading
Sources
- JR East Media — the four rates, the 100-plus locker banks, the six banks with their box counts, and the peak surcharge on the bookable boxes (media.jreast.co.jp/articles/680). Rates current as of 21 October 2026
- JR East Smart Logistics — the locker terms: the 02:00 day, the three-day use period, the 30-day separate storage, the abandonment rule and the 02:00 revision of 31 October 2026 (jre-sl.co.jp/locker-terms2026 and /locker-terms2024)
- JR East Smart Logistics — variable pricing, and the first day only (jre-sl.co.jp/variable-pricing)
- Multiecube — the ¥500 booking fee per box, the one-month booking window, the three-day booked period, the extension cut-off and the ¥500-a-month membership (multiecube.com and multiecube.com/faq)
- ecbo cloak — counter pre-booking at the three counters that offer it (cloak.ecbo.io)
- JR East Logistics — the four Tokyo Station counters, their hours, phone numbers and rates, the 30-day limit and the per-item rule (jrbutsuryu.jregroup.ne.jp/business/baggage.html)
- GRANSTA — the two cloak counters (GRANSTA B1 and the Travel Service Center), their hours, phone numbers, the 20:30 same-day receipt cut-off, the 17:20 and 17:00 same-day dispatch cut-offs, and the 250 cm / 2 m / 30 kg size limits (gransta.jp/news/info/cloakservice/). Current as of 21 October 2026
- Daimaru Tokyo — the refrigerated lockers on B1, ¥100 a use, same day only (daimaru.co.jp/tokyo/service/iroiro.html)