Your wallet: act now. Stop cards and phone first, then ask where you lost it and file a police report. Kept until at least 2027-02-11.

Act now · lost 2026-11-11 · 0 days ago

Your wallet: act now. Stop cards and phone first, then ask where you lost it and file a police report. Kept until at least 2027-02-11.

What to do, in order

1. Call your card issuers now to stop credit and cash cards (the number is on their website or the back of a card photo). The NPA says do this first.
2. File a lost property report (遺失届) at any police box (交番) or station, or online in many prefectures. Give the time, place, colour, brand, contents and any name or number on it. Keep the acceptance number (受理番号): insurance and reissues ask for it.
3. Search found items online: Police lost property search (45 prefectures share the NPA system; Tokyo and Osaka run their own) https://lostproperty.pcf.npa.go.jp/ZDSERVFP/SZDSA0101. Items found in transit may be with the police near the final station.
4. Cash is matched by amount, notes and wallet description: write down roughly how much and what else was inside.

Timeline (earliest dates)

• 2026-11-11Lost. Ask the place you lost it today: items often stay at the station, shop or desk for the first day or so.
• 2026-11-18A finder who keeps their reward rights must hand it to a police box (交番) within 7 days.
• 2027-02-11Safe last day to claim: found items are kept 3 months from the day they're handed in. If handed in later than the day you lost it, this moves later, never earlier.
• 2027-02-18After about now, assume it's gone: it goes to the finder (2-month pickup window) or, for phones, cards and IDs, is destroyed.

Police lost property search (45 prefectures share the NPA system; Tokyo and Osaka run their own) · NPA: lost something? (English)

A lost property report only lets the police match it when someone hands it in; they don't go and search. It doesn't prove the loss. Items with personal information (phones, cards, IDs) never go to the finder.