diff --git a/example-service/Cargo.toml b/example-service/Cargo.toml
index ea9f7cf..e919166 100644
--- a/example-service/Cargo.toml
+++ b/example-service/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ futures = "0.3"
 serde = { version = "1.0" }
 tarpc = { version = "0.23", path = "../tarpc", features = ["full"] }
 tokio = { version = "0.3", features = ["full"] }
-tokio-serde = { version = "0.7.1", features = ["json"] }
-tokio-util = { version = "0.5", features = ["codec"] }
 
 [lib]
 name = "service"
diff --git a/example-service/src/client.rs b/example-service/src/client.rs
index a692500..cd08a18 100644
--- a/example-service/src/client.rs
+++ b/example-service/src/client.rs
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 
 use clap::{App, Arg};
 use std::{io, net::SocketAddr};
-use tarpc::{client, context};
-use tokio_serde::formats::Json;
+use tarpc::{client, context, tokio_serde::formats::Json};
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> io::Result<()> {
diff --git a/example-service/src/server.rs b/example-service/src/server.rs
index 9048801..fd12d60 100644
--- a/example-service/src/server.rs
+++ b/example-service/src/server.rs
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ use std::{
 use tarpc::{
     context,
     server::{self, Channel, Handler},
+    tokio_serde::formats::Json,
 };
-use tokio_serde::formats::Json;
 
 // This is the type that implements the generated World trait. It is the business logic
 // and is used to start the server.
diff --git a/tarpc/Cargo.toml b/tarpc/Cargo.toml
index da17f76..9cfbaa2 100644
--- a/tarpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tarpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ default = []
 
 serde1 = ["tarpc-plugins/serde1", "serde", "serde/derive"]
 tokio1 = ["tokio/rt-multi-thread"]
-serde-transport = ["tokio-serde", "tokio-util/codec"]
+serde-transport = ["tokio-serde/json", "tokio-util/codec"]
 tcp = ["tokio/net", "tokio/stream"]
 
 full = ["serde1", "tokio1", "serde-transport", "tcp"]
diff --git a/tarpc/src/lib.rs b/tarpc/src/lib.rs
index 4a24b06..60a2f3a 100644
--- a/tarpc/src/lib.rs
+++ b/tarpc/src/lib.rs
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ pub use rpc::*;
 #[cfg(feature = "serde1")]
 pub use serde;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "serde-transport")]
+pub use tokio_serde;
+
 #[cfg(feature = "serde-transport")]
 #[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "serde-transport")))]
 pub mod serde_transport;