Nippon Travel Agency will offer a temporary luggage storage and hotel delivery service at Kansai Airport Station for the duration of the upcoming Osaka Expo.
The 2025 World Expo will be held in Osaka, Japan for 184 days between April 13th and October 13th. With around 160 countries and regions taking part in the Expo, Kansai International Airport is preparing for a big uptick in overseas visitors.
JR and Nankai ticket gates at Kansai Airport Station
To make life easier on visitors and reduce the amount of large luggage being carried through stations and onto trains, Nippon Travel Agency will offer a service to store large luggage items or send them on to major hotels in Osaka city. People will also be able to send their luggage back to Kansai Airport from their hotel when they are due to return to their country.
The service, to be called Crosta Kanku, will open on April 10, and will have a reception desk located outside the JR West ticket gates at Kansai Airport Station.
Crosta Kanku’s luggage storage location at Kansai Airport Station
Luggage storage for items to be picked up the same day will be available between 9.00 and 20.00. For hotel delivery the application deadline is 14.00 with items delivered to the hotel after 19.00. For airport delivery, applications should be made at hotel reception by 9.00, and items will arrive between 15.00 and 19.30.
Luggage storage will cost 1,000 yen per item, while delivery will cost between 2,500 yen and 4,000 yen depending on the size of the luggage.
For the best routes to the upcoming Expo, check our article How to Get to Osaka Expo 2025: Train, Bus, Bicycle, Car, Taxi, and Boat.
Article by Michael Lambe. Photo by MNORI/pixta. All rights reserved.
