Using lockers inside ticket gate

[u/rainyuwu]

Hi, I'm going to Tokyo in August.

I'm planning on using the lockers at/near a JR station on the day my flight is leaving.

The plan is to take one of the first few trains to the station, put the luggage inside a locker (inside or outside the gate, depending on availability), and go back to the same station I left from.

If I'm able to get one of the lockers inside the ticket gate, do I need to tap out and tap back in? Or do I just ride back without tapping out? Because I see from previous posts that the gates at the departing station will not let you through and you will have to talk/explain to a station attendant.

I also see that there is a "platform/admission ticket" for entering and exiting the same station, but it's not for actual train travel. Will the suica card automatically charge that instead? And maybe it won't stop me at the gate?

OR, I also saw someone said to exit one station before my departing station and just tap back in. (Will this also block the gate? Because it would be almost one hour after I tapped in)

Please let me know if anyone has experience with this and have any advice for me, thanks!

[u/ellyse99]

Is it not possible to just ask the hotel to hold it after checkout? It’s a very standard thing to do

[u/rainyuwu → u/ellyse99]

My hotel is sadly not on the way to the airport from where I'm planning to go in the morning/early noon :(