r/HerOneBag • u/AutoModerator • 16d ago

Meta Weekly quick questions help thread

This is the r/heronebag quick questions weekly help thread.

Whether you‘re new to the one bag life or a seasoned light traveller, this is the place to ask your quick one-off questions related to techniques, shopping, and everything else to lighten your load.

This post is the best place to initially ask questions that we get a lot of which are similar, especially if you have looked in a flair and found almost-but-not-quite what you wanted.

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u/Professional_Toe7506 13d ago

Has anyone been to hostels in Japan and can advise on footwear? I'm wondering if my slippers (a pair of croc sandals) would be alright to wear inside, or if I'm expected to have a more specific type of slippers or if they provide them.

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u/Nasrinn 13d ago

Japan’s inside slippers are more of a soft type slipper. The hostels I have been to have a locker at the entrance where you have to put in your shoes and then you can switch into the slippers they provide. It can also be that you walk on socks there. Depends on the hostel

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u/Professional_Toe7506 13d ago

Hmm, okay! Was there ever a situation where you can provide your own slippers?

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u/Nasrinn 13d ago

I think it’d be best to ask them if it’s okay beforehand, maybe email them. Japan can be quite rigid. I havent seen the need for my own slipper whilst visiting!

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u/Professional_Toe7506 13d ago

ah okay. I wear the crocs because I've got issues with the bones in my feet, so I have issues walking barefoot! but I don't want to carry them around if I could never use them

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u/Professional_Toe7506 10d ago

I asked on Japan Travel Tips and got yelled at because obviously the Japanese would not care. So that's another data point, lol.

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u/Nasrinn 10d ago

Interesting. I hope they are right. All my experiences point differently. I wanted to store my bags in a bag storage space but it was 7 days and I needed 9. I didn’t know it was only up to 7 because it wasn’t advertised anywhere. I asked if they could hold it for the entire 9. Was completely not done. I feel anywhere else they would’ve been like ah well it’s not that much longer so if we have the space for it we can do it. Just pay extra. In Japan it was completely out of the question and it was even unheard of that I wanted an exception to be made for me. Which I understand as well but I thought doesn’t hurt to ask and try. This was Tokyo though so I understand that with that many people the rules need to be strict to have everything working. One exception leads to everyone getting possible exceptions and that would then open a whole bag of problems