Sakai is gonna be our moving company!

Okay, wow what a long day! We ended up calling the old guy who built our wall (he has his own crew) and we asked him if he could give us an estimate to make our fence, because we need that fence on ASAP. So, the kids don't get out of the yard and be smashed like panckaes! Ha ha ha!. And with time running out, we sorta need it quick. He said he was on holiday with it being New Years and all (yup most people get off like 5 days here in Japan). So we said okay and we will talk to him after the new year. Anyway he must have talked it over with his wife because he called us back within 5 minutes saying...he will gladly go to our new house and meet with us and give us an estimate, lol. I guess, the lure of extra customers persuaded him (even though it's technically a holiday now here)

Oh btw, the ant people gave us a high estimate. And we ended up going with the Panda company (Sakai). The ones who came at noon today. We, already made a contract and everything and they will come on January 30th and move the entire house contents for us.

Moving companies in Japan are a bit different then the US. In the US, most people rent U Haul's and move it themselves, lol. But here, they have movers move for them and they got different grades.

Highest grade is where they come in and pack and box it up for you. Bug bomb, your articles along the way...yes while in the van!!! And then they will unpack it for you! LOL And that is the most expensive.

Then they got mid grade ones too. And the cheapest is where, you pack it yourself and you unpack it yourself.

We found out moving on the weekends is twice as expensive. We could moved in Saturday, but it costed $2,000 US. But, only $1,000 US if we move on the weekday.

The ant company wanted to charge us $1600. But the Panda company is going to charge us only $1,000 US. So not bad considering it's Japan. And they will pack it for us. And place our beds upstairs and washer/dryers upstairs but they won't unpack our boxes...we didn't wanna pay that much, lol! Plus we opted to move on the weekday, which was cheaper!

I wondered why Noboru's coworker paid way more then us considering it was still Narita to Narita, but Noboru said, moving season in Japan is March and those moving companies are double or triple during the moving month. Phew! Thanks god we aren't moving during the high moving season!

PS Noboru called and cancelled our appointment, with the final moving coming to give us an estimate. Also, the company we went with, Sakai, they gave us a gift for coming to do the estimate. And that was 1 kg of white rice. Ha ha ha. For all of you in the US, I think that's about 2lbs (or somewhere around there), so it was really, this itty bitty little bag of rice! LOL especially since I usually buy 10 kg's of rice, this rice looked like a shrimp compared to my usual sack of rice, oh well it was a nice gift anyway! And very useful. : )