Rules and fees are set by each ward and by the recycling companies. For your own case, ask the Home Appliance Recycling Reception Center (0570-087-200) or your ward office.
In Tokyo’s 23 wards, air conditioners, TVs, refrigerators and washing machines cannot be put out as bulky waste (sodai gomi). You ask a store or the Home Appliance Recycling Reception Center to collect them, or you carry them yourself to a designated pick-up site. The wards do not collect personal computers either. However, Setagaya, Nerima, Ota, Edogawa and Adachi have agreements or partnerships with Renet Japan Recycle, which collects one box including a computer from your home for free. Only Adachi also lets you bring a computer to a ward-designated facility from ¥700.
In short
- The 4 appliances: ask the store where you are buying a replacement, or the store where you bought it. If you do not know, call the Reception Center. With a car, you can carry it to a designated pick-up site.
- Small electronics such as smartphones and digital cameras: ward collection boxes (Setagaya 12 sites, Nerima 16, Ota 42). Edogawa and Adachi have the ward pick them out of non-burnable and bulky waste.
- Computers: if there is a PC Recycle mark, the maker collects it for free. Without one, one box that includes a computer is free through Renet Japan’s home pick-up.
Checked with official pages on October 27, 2026 (Japan time).
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1. How to choose a way to dispose of the 4 appliances in Tokyo’s 23 wards
The basic rule is to ask the store where you are buying a new one, or the store where you bought the old one, and stores are obliged to take it back. In both cases you pay a recycling fee plus a collection and transport fee set by the store.
- Replacing it: ask the store where you buy the new product (or the website, if you buy online) to take the old one.
- Disposing only, and you know the store: ask that store.
- You do not know the store, or it has closed: the Home Appliance Recycling Reception Center (online 24 hours; phone 0570-087-200, weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.).
- You can transport it by car: carrying it to a designated pick-up site means no collection and transport fee. Nerima and Edogawa also have local intermediate collection points in the ward.
The TVs covered are CRT, LCD and plasma, and from April 2024 OLED TVs as well. “Refrigerators and freezers” also include wine cellars and small cold storage units (Setagaya Ward, how to dispose of air conditioners, TVs, refrigerators and freezers, washing machines and clothes dryers, Japanese).
2. Fee guide when you ask the Reception Center
If you ask the Reception Center to collect it, a refrigerator of 171 liters or more is about ¥8,730: a ¥4,730 recycling fee plus a ¥4,000 transport fee. The Center is run by the Tokyo 23 Wards Home Appliance Recycling Cooperative and takes applications from residents of the 23 wards.
| Item | Recycling fee | Transport fee | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air conditioner | ¥990 | ¥4,000 | ¥4,990 |
| TV, 15 inches or smaller | ¥1,870 | ¥3,500 | ¥5,370 |
| TV, 16 inches or larger | ¥2,970 | ¥3,500 | ¥6,470 |
| Refrigerator, 170 L or less | ¥3,740 | ¥4,000 | ¥7,740 |
| Refrigerator, 171 L or more | ¥4,730 | ¥4,000 | ¥8,730 |
| Washing machine, dryer | ¥2,530 | ¥4,000 | ¥6,530 |
Source: Home Appliance Recycling Reception Center (Tokyo 23 Wards Home Appliance Recycling Cooperative), fee guide for recycling and transport, tax included (checked October 27, 2026; Japanese).
Recycling fees differ by manufacturer. Ota Ward lists air conditioners from ¥550 and TVs of 16 inches or larger from ¥2,420 (Ota Ward, home appliance recycling, Japanese). Before you apply, check the item, the maker’s name, the screen size of a TV and the capacity of a refrigerator.
The fees do not include taking an air conditioner or washing machine off the wall, or carrying it out of your room. The Reception Center does not do removal or carrying out, so you put the item out yourself by the collection day: at the entrance by the road for a detached house, or at the building’s collection point for an apartment building. If a refrigerator or washing machine is not emptied, collection can be refused.
3. How to carry it to a designated pick-up site yourself
If you carry it to a designated pick-up site yourself, you pay only the recycling fee and no collection and transport fee. First pay the recycling fee at a post office (a transfer fee is charged separately), receive a Home Appliance Recycling Ticket, and bring it with the product. You can take it to any designated pick-up site, whatever the maker.
According to Ota Ward, post offices do not handle this transfer on Saturdays. Business days and reception hours differ by site, so check with the Home Appliance Recycling Ticket Center (0120-319640) or your ward’s page before you go (AEHA Recycling Ticket Center, post office transfer method, Japanese).
4. Small electronics and computers (collection boxes and home pick-up)
None of the 5 wards collects computers, and a computer with a PC Recycle mark is collected by its maker for free. The mark is on home computers sold from October 2003 onward, and the recycling fee was included in the purchase price. For computers without the mark, home-built ones, and ones from makers that have left the business, apply to the PC3R Promotion Association (03-5282-7685) (Nerima Ward, computers are not collected by the ward, Japanese).
The home pick-up by Renet Japan Recycle that the 5 wards describe is free for one box as long as it includes a computer, even if other small electronics are in the same box. The box must be 140 cm or less in the sum of its three sides and 20 kg or less, and a CRT monitor in it costs extra. A service that erases the data for you is paid; data erasing software to use at home is free (Adachi Ward, recycling home computers, Japanese).
Each ward tells you to erase your data yourself before putting small electronics in a collection box or sending a computer. Mobile phones and smartphones are also collected for free at mobile carrier shops.
5. Differences among 5 of Tokyo’s 23 wards
Tap a ward name to jump to its section. The Reception Center for the 4 appliances is the same across all 23 wards.
| Ward | Small electronics | Computers | Drop-off in the ward |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setagaya | 12 collection boxes | Home pick-up, maker | 1 designated pick-up site |
| Nerima | 16 collection boxes | Home pick-up, maker | 2 intermediate points |
| Ota | 42 collection boxes | Home pick-up, maker | 2 designated pick-up sites |
| Edogawa | Picked out of waste | Home pick-up, maker | 1 designated site, 2 intermediate points |
| Adachi | Picked out of waste | Home pick-up, maker, ward drop-off | 1 designated pick-up site |
Source: each ward’s official page (checked October 27, 2026; Japanese).
Setagaya Ward
Setagaya takes 12 kinds of items, including mobile phones and smartphones, tablets, digital cameras and telephones, in collection boxes at 12 places such as branch offices and community centers. The slot is 10 cm high by 25 cm wide, and computers and rechargeable batteries such as mobile batteries cannot be put in. The box at the Ward Office Annex 2 was moved to the Setagaya Ward Office West Building from October 31 (Setagaya Ward, collection of used small electronics, Japanese).
The designated pick-up site in the ward for the 4 appliances is Tonan Ryutsu in Kitami. Small electrical products that are not among the 12 items go out as non-burnable waste if each side is 30 cm or less, and as bulky waste if over 30 cm.
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Nerima Ward
Nerima takes 13 kinds of items, such as mobile phones, USB drives and electric shavers, in collection boxes at 16 places including the Ward Office main building, the Recycling Center and libraries. The slot is 12 cm high by 25 cm wide. Items that do not fit go out as non-burnable waste if 30 cm or less, and as bulky waste if 30 cm or more (Nerima Ward, collection of small electronics, Japanese).
For the 4 appliances, you can also take them to an intermediate collection point in the ward (Narimasu Kogyo in Kitamachi, Taiyo Unyu in Oizumimachi). The recycling fee and a transport fee apply, but the ward says it costs less than asking for collection (Nerima Ward, air conditioners, TVs, refrigerators and freezers, washing machines and dryers are not collected by the ward, Japanese).
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Ota Ward
Ota takes 10 kinds of small electronics in collection boxes at 42 places, such as the Ward Office, branch offices and libraries. The slot is 30 by 15 cm, and you take out the batteries first (Ota Ward, small electronics recycling, Japanese).
There are 2 designated pick-up sites for the 4 appliances in the ward: Loginet Japan East in Keihinjima, and Okayama Prefecture Freight Transport Keihin Branch in Heiwajima. Portable LCD TVs and projection TVs are not covered by the appliance recycling law and are treated as bulky waste in Ota. In the home pick-up for computers, you can also send peripherals such as printers (Ota Ward, recycling home personal computers, Japanese).
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Edogawa Ward
Edogawa has no collection boxes. The ward picks out appliances and metal items from the collected non-burnable and bulky waste and recycles them. You put them out the same way as ordinary non-burnable and bulky waste (Edogawa Ward, recycling useful metals from small electronics, Japanese).
For the 4 appliances, if you take them yourself to an intermediate collection point in the ward (Santo Unyu in Shinozakimachi, Izoi in Higashi-Kasai), the transport fee for an air conditioner is ¥2,600 to ¥2,740. The designated pick-up site you can take items to without a reservation is the Okayama Prefecture Freight Transport Edogawa Office in Rinkaicho (Edogawa Ward, how to put out items covered by the appliance recycling law, Japanese).
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Adachi Ward
Adachi also has no collection boxes. If you put out an electrical product smaller than 30 cm on each side as non-burnable waste, or a larger one as bulky waste, the ward picks them out after collection and recycles them (Adachi Ward, the small electronics recycling law, Japanese).
For computers, residents can bring them to the Shikahama Recycling Center (in Horinouchi), designated by the ward. It takes a desktop unit for ¥700, a laptop ¥1,300, an all-in-one ¥1,900 and a display ¥1,300. No reservation is needed. Reception is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (closed Sundays, holidays and the year-end and New Year period), and you need ID with your address and a face photo. These prices apply even with a PC Recycle mark. The designated pick-up site in the ward for the 4 appliances is Josho Unyu in Minami-Hanahata (Adachi Ward, how to put out the 4 appliances, Japanese).
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6. Practical points when choosing in Tokyo’s 23 wards
If you do not have a car, you will ask a store or the Reception Center to collect the item, and the collection and transport fee is added. The designated pick-up sites in Heiwajima in Ota and Rinkaicho in Edogawa are inside truck terminals.
Some trucks that drive around loudly advertising “free collection”, and some companies that put flyers in your mailbox, have no permit. Collecting household items needs a ward permit, and Setagaya says it has not given permits to such companies. Adachi also warns of cases where people were asked for high fees after the items were loaded.
If you are putting out furniture on the same day as the 4 appliances, bulky waste is applied for ward by ward. The fees and drop-off for 5 of the 23 wards are in the Japanese guide to bulky waste in Tokyo’s 23 wards (Japanese), and for the Tama area in the Japanese guide to bulky waste in Tama (Japanese).
7. FAQ
Can I put a broken small TV out as non-burnable waste in the 23 wards?
No. Small TVs and small cold storage units are also covered by appliance recycling, and the ward does not collect them from the collection point (Setagaya Ward’s notice).
Can I put only a computer monitor out as bulky waste in the 23 wards?
No. A computer display is treated the same as a computer, and the ward does not collect it. Send it through the maker, the PC3R Promotion Association or the home pick-up (Nerima and Adachi notices).
If I ask the Reception Center, will they carry it out of my room?
No. They do not remove or carry out items. Put it out by the collection day: at the entrance for a detached house, or at the building’s collection point for an apartment building (Reception Center notice).
Official information checked: October 27, 2026 (Japan time). Fees and hours may change.
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Checked with official pages on October 27, 2026 (Japan time).
