International courier from Udaipur to Japan. Free home pickup.
Pickup from your Udaipur door, packed and documented, into the DTDC International network. 6–9 working days door-to-door for express; from ₹1,400 per kilogram before fuel surcharge and GST.
Five steps from your Udaipur door to a Japanese address.
Pickup, Udaipur.
Free at 5 kg+. We bring tape, bubble wrap and the international airway bill.
Pack & document.
Commercial invoice, KYC, content declaration. Done at our office before handover.
DTDC handover.
Same evening into the DTDC International facility; air movement to the Japan gateway via Mumbai or Delhi.
Japanese customs.
Clearance at NRT Narita / HND Haneda Tokyo or KIX Osaka-Kansai. Japan Customs (Zeikan) is efficient — paperwork-clean parcels typically clear within 24–48 hours.
Doorstep delivery.
Last-mile in the destination city. POD on WhatsApp the same day.
Starting rates. Real pricing depends on weight.
Final price depends on actual or volumetric weight (whichever is greater) plus the international fuel surcharge in force on your booking date. GST is extra.
Starting per-kg rates
- Express (6–9 days, door)from ₹1,400 / kg
- Economy (9–14 days, door)from ₹1,050 / kg
- Min billable weight0.5 kg
- Pickup from UdaipurFree at 5 kg+
Volumetric formula: (L × W × H cm) ÷ 5000.
Worked example
A 2 kg parcel — say a stack of textbooks plus a folded saree, ~30 × 25 × 10 cm:
- Volumetric1.5 kg (actual 2 kg billed)
- Express, 2 kg × ₹1,400≈ ₹2,800
- + fuel surcharge (~25%)≈ ₹700
- + GST 18%≈ ₹630
- Approx total, express≈ ₹4,650
Indicative only. Fuel surcharge and rate cards change.
What you’ll need at pickup.
Customs paperwork is the most common reason an international parcel stalls. We’ll walk you through it before pickup so it doesn’t.
KYC of the sender
One photo ID for the person whose name is on the AWB — Aadhaar, passport or driving licence. We photograph it at pickup; not stored beyond DTDC’s record.
Commercial invoice
For commercial goods, a printed invoice listing items, quantity and value. For gifts, a written declaration suffices but value still must be stated. The recipient’s residence card (Zairyu Card) number speeds clearance.
Prescription (medicines)
For tablets going to a student or family member: a copy of the prescription with the doctor’s registration number. MHLW reviews medicines; sealed strips, name matching the recipient’s Zairyu Card. No injectables, no liquid medicines.
What Japan doesn’t let in.
Japan Customs (Zeikan) is efficient but strict. Plant and animal quarantine (MAFF) is among the toughest in the world. These are real Japanese rules — not our caution. Items shipped against them are seized, destroyed, and may incur a disposal fee billed to the consignee.
Don’t even try
- Meat & meat products — extremely strict. Even sealed dry meat snacks and jerky are routinely rejected at MAFF inspection.
- Dairy products — fresh paneer, ghee, khoya-mithai, raw milk products. Some packaged exemptions exist; assume seized.
- Fresh fruit, vegetables, seeds, plants — MAFF is uncompromising. Even decorative dried flowers and untreated wooden items get flagged.
- Live animals, insects, biological samples — quarantine clearance required.
- Narcotic-precursor chemicals & certain cosmetics — some ingredients banned under Japanese pharmaceutical law.
- Liquids and aerosols of any kind — universal courier rule.
- Lithium batteries above 100 Wh — restricted on air leg.
Allowed with care
- Textiles & sarees — block-print fabric, cotton clothing, lehengas, sherwanis. Declare a fair value.
- Books and printed material — any language including Japanese-translated Indian materials. Declare title and value.
- Sealed dry vegetarian sweets — declare every ingredient. Milk-based mithai may be flagged; choose besan ladoo / dry-fruit barfi over kalakand.
- Tablets with prescription — sealed strip, doctor’s prescription, name matching the Zairyu Card. No injectables.
- Non-precious jewellery, small electronics — declare make, model, value.
- Papier-mâché, traditional Indian musical instruments — declare honestly with item-level values.
Care packages, textiles, gifts.
Gifts to Indian-Japanese families
Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya — the growing Indian-IT diaspora. Sealed dry sweets, textiles, festival items. No food with meat or fresh dairy.
Marwari trader documents
Business documents and contracts to the Tokyo Indian-association hubs. Always express; a tracked international document beats registered post.
Wedding & festival outfits
Sarees, lehengas, sherwanis, dupattas shipped ahead of Indian-Japanese weddings. Non-precious jewellery boxes go in the same parcel.
Diwali parcels (vegetarian-only)
Diyas, decorations, sealed dry mithai. No agarbatti made of untreated bamboo, no fresh ghee, no flowers. Express in to land before the festival.
B2B handicraft samples
To Tokyo and Yokohama boutique importers — block-print, papier-mâché, miniature paintings. Commercial invoice with HS codes and item-level values.
Returning-traveller baggage
Japanese tourists who bought too much in Udaipur. Picked up from the hotel, packed without organic material, shipped before they fly.
Student care kits
University of Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Tohoku — small but growing Indian-student community. Books, sealed dry snacks, kitchen tools, festival clothing.
Spiritual & cultural materials
Buddhist-temple connections, scriptures, prayer beads, non-organic ritual items. Declare honestly.
AWB on WhatsApp. Track on dtdc.in. POD when it lands.
The moment the parcel is booked into DTDC International, we send you the AWB number on WhatsApp. Type it into the public tracker at dtdc.in any time. When delivery happens we forward the POD — signed slip or photo — within the hour.
Asked most often.
Japan customs feels efficient — why is it still so strict?
Japan Customs (Zeikan) clears compliant parcels fast — often within 24–48 hours of arrival. The rigidity is on plant and animal quarantine through MAFF: even sealed dry meat snacks and untreated wooden items get rejected. Other developed-country customs may let small dairy or jerky slip through; Japan does not. Send textiles, books, jewellery, electronics and sealed vegetarian sweets, and the lane is one of the fastest in the world.
Can I ship Diwali mithai to my family in Tokyo?
Vegetarian, sealed, no fresh dairy. Besan ladoo, dry-fruit barfi, kaju katli from a factory pack will usually clear; ghee-laden kalakand or fresh paneer-based sweets get flagged. Declare every ingredient on the invoice — we list each item by name. Express in early; Diwali parcels arriving on the day are tight if customs picks the parcel for inspection.
How can transit be only 6–9 days for somewhere this far?
Two reasons. One — DTDC moves the parcel via Mumbai or Delhi onto direct cargo capacity to NRT, HND or KIX, and Japanese ground last-mile is fast and reliable. Two — Japan Customs is unusually efficient at clearing paperwork-clean parcels. The lane is fast because Japan’s side runs well, not because the air leg is short.