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by Paul Bourque
Sep 11, 2025
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Time is money, as they say, and time spent finding the cheapest courier from Canada to Japan costs time. So, to save both time and a lot of money, choose Secureship to help you find a cheap delivery to Japan, or anywhere domestically or internationally. Shipments may also incur other fees because of additional handling, Saturday services, and insurance, but you may be able to avoid these charges based on the nature of the shipped goods. Finally, Japan, like all sovereign nations, has specific customs rules and duties and taxes on incoming goods. This blog includes a few of them, and points you to an excellent source for an outline of the rest.
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By way of example, the table below shows six options generated by Secureship’s estimator for a four kilogram parcel from Toronto to Tokyo in late July 2025.
The results for this example are striking in several ways:
You will incur extra fees for certain services or conditions, and many can be avoided with a bit of foreknowledge.
Additional handling charges show up when you have shipped the goods in something other than a cardboard box. So, as long as the items do not require a wooden, plastic, or metal container, you can dodge this fee.
For a residential pick-up or delivery, Saturday services can be very convenient, but carriers apply a fee for this, which if the delivery can wait a day, you will save a bit of money.
Reusing packaging materials is a small way to curb costs, but over the long term could add up to a substantial amount. One exception to this is the box; a box’s strength reduces with use, even just one trip. So particularly for a heavy shipment, use a new box to be sure the box survives and the goods arrive undamaged.
Insurance is certainly optional and taking a chance without it saves money, but for valuable or breakable goods, taking out insurance may save you money should items get lost in transit or become damaged during the rigours of travel.
Japan and Canada are part of the CPTPP trade agreement, but there are restrictions that Japanese customs impose on some goods. For example, when sending gifts from Canada, they will enter Japan duty free if their value is less than¥10,000 - about $95 CAD (August 2025).
However, some items will incur full duty regardless of their value. They include:
Secureship’s Shipping Guide to Japan outlines many customs regulations for a range of other goods like temporary imports, foodstuffs, and sold items.
There is no singular answer to the question: Which is the cheapest courier from Canada to Japan? Various factors come into play, but what is known for certain is that Secureship will find you a courier and save you money, a lot of money, on shipping. But there are other fees that may be applied to a shipment - additional handling, Saturday services, insurance, etc., which with knowledge and planning, many can be evaded or lowered. And again Secureship has the resources to help you with those, and it maintains a series of shipping guides to 140-plus countries, including Japan, which provide an overview of the customs regulations and taxation for incoming goods.

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