Where can you store luggage in Akihabara? A Straight Answer from a Local Tour Guide
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Two options: coin lockers inside the stations, or shops that hold your bag and can be booked ahead through an app. Lockers are cheaper and need no planning, but the large sizes fill up on weekends and event days. I run anime tours here most weeks and get asked this before nearly every one.
Bookable shop storage costs a little more and closes at night, but it takes suitcases the lockers cannot, and you know in advance that a space exists. "Where do I put my suitcase?" is the single most common question I get before a tour, so here is every option I know of, with what I could and could not verify.
Should you book storage in advance or just use a coin locker?
Book in advance if you are arriving on a weekend, during a big event, or with a large suitcase. Use a coin locker if you are travelling light on a weekday morning, when the odds are in your favour. The large and extra-large lockers are the scarcest sizes at every station in this area, and they are the ones a 28-inch suitcase needs.
Bookable luggage storage near Akihabara Station
These are shops that hold your bag behind the counter. You reserve a space through an app, walk in, and show a QR code.
ecbo cloak
ecbo cloak is the Japanese service most shops here use. You book a space at a specific shop, and prices are set per shop rather than nationally — Big Echo's own page lists ¥300 per day for a bag and ¥600 per day for a suitcase, while other Akihabara listings show higher rates, so check the price on the shop's page before you confirm.
Shops in the immediate area include the following. I checked each one on Google Maps when this page was last updated.
Yamato Transport, Akihabara Ekimae branch (1-15-8 Sotokanda) — about 1 minute from the station, open 9:00–19:00. A courier depot, so large items are routine here, and the same counter can forward a suitcase to your next hotel or to the airport.
Big Echo Akihabara Denkigai-guchi (1-18-19 Sotokanda, inside BiTO AKIBA) — a karaoke branch a few steps from the Electric Town exit, and the shop whose published rate is the ¥300 bag / ¥600 suitcase figure above. There is a second Big Echo at the Showa-dori exit if this one is full.
Akiba Info, Akihabara UDX 2F (4-14-1 Sotokanda) — the tourist information centre, open 11:00–17:00, closed Mondays. Capacity is small: 5 bags and 5 suitcases. Staff speak English, which makes this the easiest option if anything goes wrong.
One listing to ignore: Sofmap AKIBA No.5, the used-digital buy-back centre at 1-16-9 Sotokanda, still appears on storage round-ups. Google Maps marks it permanently closed, and another used-electronics shop now occupies that unit, so do not plan around it.
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Bounce
Bounce is the international app most visitors already have. In Akihabara it lists a dedicated storage point advertising capacity for around 100 items a day and 24-hour opening, plus a hotel front desk (Hotel Anshin Oyado, Akihabara Electric Town) taking up to about 50 items a day, also listed as 24 hours.
One thing worth knowing: Bounce and ecbo cloak list several of the same shops. If a shop shows as full on one app, it is worth checking the other, but do not assume they are two separate spaces at the same address.
Bounce advertises rates from around ¥275 per day, but the price shown at individual Akihabara shops ranges up to roughly ¥850, so treat the headline number as a starting point.
Radical Storage
Radical Storage lists one location in the area, at 1-15-8 Sotokanda. It is booking-only — you cannot walk in and pay cash. When I checked availability at the end of July 2026 the calendar showed no open dates, so check before you rely on it.
Coin lockers at Akihabara Station
Four different railway stations sit under the name "Akihabara", and each has its own lockers.
JR Akihabara Station has the most. Inside the gates there are banks on the first floor between the Electric Town and Central gates, and two more on the second floor — the north side takes both IC cards and cash and includes extra-large units, while the south side is cash only. Outside the gates, the bank near the Showa-dori exit is open 24 hours and is cash only. Reported prices run from about ¥400 for a small locker to ¥800 for extra-large, but these come from locker directories rather than JR's own page, which I could not open when writing this. Read the price off the machine before you commit.
Tokyo Metro Hibiya line lockers are split across three areas near exits 3 and 5, at roughly ¥400 / ¥500 / ¥700 for small, medium and large, taking cash and IC cards. Those figures come from a survey published in late 2022, so treat them as approximate.
Tsukuba Express has two banks on the basement level near the gates, in the same ¥400–¥700 range.
Toei Shinjuku line, Iwamotocho Station is about a ten-minute walk south and is the one I suggest when everything nearer the station is full — tourists rarely walk this far. Tokyo's transport bureau lists two locker areas on the basement concourse: one near exit A6 with 4 large, 4 medium and 5 standard units, and one near exit A4 with 3 medium and 10 standard. They take PASMO, and run from first to last train. The station page does not publish prices.
Reservable lockers. JR East runs an app-reservable locker system (Multiecube / To-Locca) with units at Akihabara, both inside the gates on the second floor and outside in the east–west passage. I could not confirm current pricing, but if you want the certainty of a reservation and the low price of a locker, this is the combination to look at.
What about Yodobashi Camera?
Yodobashi Camera Multimedia Akiba does not offer a left-luggage service. I checked their official service list: it covers phone repair, shoe repair, key cutting, ATMs and currency exchange, but no bag storage. A lot of visitors walk there assuming a store that big must hold bags. It does not.
Comparison
| Option | Roughly | Hours | Book ahead? | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JR station lockers | ¥400–¥800 / day | Varies; Showa-dori exit bank is 24h | No | Small bags, weekday arrivals |
| Iwamotocho lockers | Not published | First to last train | No | When everything near the station is full |
| ecbo cloak shops | ~¥300–¥800 / day | Shop hours, mostly 9:00–19:00 | Yes | Suitcases, guaranteed space |
| Bounce | From ~¥275 / day | Some listings 24h | Yes | Late arrivals and early departures |
| Reservable JR lockers | Not confirmed | Station hours | Yes | Locker price with a guarantee |
| Yodobashi Akiba | Not offered | — | — | — |
Frequently asked questions
When do the lockers fill up? Weekends, public holidays and major event days are the risk. Large and extra-large units go first, because they are the rarest size in every bank. Nobody publishes live occupancy for Akihabara, so if your day is inflexible, book a shop instead.
Can I leave a bag overnight? Coin lockers are generally intended for same-day use and charge again once the day rolls over. Shop storage closes when the shop closes. For a genuine overnight, use your hotel's front desk — most will hold bags before check-in and after check-out.
Is there storage that speaks English? Akiba Info on the second floor of UDX is a tourist information centre, so yes. The apps themselves are in English, which covers the rest.
Can I store a bag on my tour day? Yes, and please do. Akihabara is a walking neighbourhood — pulling a suitcase over four hours of shop floors is miserable. If you tell me in advance which station you are arriving at, I will tell you which bank of lockers to try first.
Sources and honesty note
Shop names, opening hours and capacities come from the operators' own listings; station locker details come from the Tokyo transport bureau's station page and from locker directory sites, because JR East's and Tokyo Metro's own pages were not reachable when I compiled this. Prices in Japan change quietly. This page was last checked on 30 July 2026, and I update it when I notice something has moved.
About the author. I am Yuuki, an anime tour guide based in Akihabara. I run small-group tours in English most weeks, rated 4.96★ on Airbnb, and I have watched over 1,500 anime series — which is how most of my guests find me. I walk past most of these lockers on the way to meeting guests.
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Sources: JR East Smart Logistics, About Multi-Ecube, the operator's own English page for the app-reservable JR East lockers; Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei), Iwamotocho Station. JR East's and Tokyo Metro's own coin-locker pages still returned errors when this page was last checked, which is why station locker prices above are marked as approximate.
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