International Removals to and from Tokyo

Scale is described by capacity first: the port has “an annual traffic capacity of around 100 million tonnes of cargo”. The latest measured year on that page is old. “In 2007 the Port of Tokyo handled 90,810,000 tonnes of cargo and 3,696,000 twenty-foot equivalent units”, so use it as background, not as today's throughput.

The port's open-to-the-world date is late. It says the port “opened for international trade on May 20, 1941”, whereas under the Tokugawa shogunate Tokyo was “not allowed to open to international trade, although the neighbouring Port of Yokohama was already open”. Both ports open onto the same bay, so read the Yokohama page as well.

Its neighbours matter for delivery addresses: “Chiba Prefecture borders it to the east, Yamanashi to the west, Kanagawa to the south, and Saitama to the north”. An address in Kanagawa or Saitama is outside Tokyo, though a mover may still treat it as one metropolitan delivery.

Kawasaki lies north of Yokohama, on the way to Tokyo; the Yokohama page explains how an industrial zone runs between them, and the food-sanitation list has a Kawasaki Quarantine Branch Station. Chiba, east of the capital, has its own quarantine branch, and Narita Airport sits in Chiba Prefecture with a quarantine station and a plant branch of its own. We read no moving rule for any of the three, so a delivery there follows the Tokyo advice above.

To go further: the whole-country overview, entry and passport rules, the central Japan port.