Comments on: Household goods weight restriction lifted for Kadena AB!

By: Naomi

Naomi — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:19:32 +0000

We just recieved orders to Kadena we should arrive there sometime between march and april ; can anyone tell me or send me pics of the housing there. We have 2 medium to large dogs and 2 very active boys. We also have a lot of large furniture. Thanx.

By: JESSE B

JESSE B — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:30:42 +0000

CARS CANT BE SHIPPED TO JAPAN

By: Michelle Anderson

Michelle Anderson — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:57:06 +0000

I will be moving there as of June 21st with my husband. This webisite was informative in regards to furniture but what about bringing over an american made car? I have a chevy colbalt with 50 thousand miles on it and am not sure if it can be stored in the states or if I am able to take the car??

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:06:53 +0000

I’m PCS’ing to Torii Station in a few months. I’m an E-5 in the Army. Are there shipment restrictions?

By: Belle

Belle — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:50:01 +0000

Does anyone know if the weight restiction is going to be lifted for the Marines? If so is there a date of when? We are going to be there in June. I would think the soonest we would pack up is April-ish, if we sell our house.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:13:52 +0000

Just a note for those AF personnel PSCing to Okinawa with full weight allowance, don’t bring your washer and dryer. We were not told this so we, logically, had ours shipped. Well each house has it’s own assigned washer and dryer. So we tried to either get the furniture people to come pick it up or we take it somewhere, there is NO place for them to go!!!! So we have 2 washers and 2 dryers (only one set is hooked up). Unfortunately, they take up a tremendous amount of space. So for the next 3 years, if our washer and dryer break, we have extras a few feet away.

By: natalie

natalie — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:59:46 +0000

We will be coming this fall and Have not gone to transportation yet but does this mean for all moving to kadena or just fro air orce. we are army not air force.

By: Kandy

Kandy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:23:38 +0000

Someone PCSing to Okinawa wants to know if bicycles can be sent with unaccompanied baggage or only in household goods. Do you if there is an official site with a detailed list of what is authorized?

By: Kim Crider

Kim Crider — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:34:26 +0000

We did not realize with the full JTR allowance that we would not be authorized the “borrow” furniture to replace the items that we did not bring. We were informed by our TMO office at our loosing base that we should still bring limited items as they would be provided still when we arrived in okinawa and space here was limited. WELL…not true!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you are authorized to bring your full household goods then you better bring your furniture! They will only loan you furniture for 90 days and then they take the loaner furniture back. We ended up having to purchase bedroom furniture and other items, when we have perfectly acceptable stuff in storage in the states. However, once it is in storage you can only get it released from storage if you take the entire shipment. Make sure you bring bedroom furniture, living room furniture and anything else you need to make your stay comfortable or you will have to purchase furniture as well once you arive. It was a very costly miscomunication and the tmo office/housing office here was unwilling to bend on their rules to help accomidate us. I hope this posting helps some of you from having the same thing happen. Several families that came here the same time as us from differnet bases were misinformed as well and also had to purchase furniture.

By: Rhonda Williams

Rhonda Williams — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:47:33 +0000

I am coming to Camp Foster in August. Will I have my full weight or is it restricted? Thank you.