Posted on 12/18/2024 10:08:50 AM PST by Duke C.
Japan Airlines has teamed up with Sumitomo Corporation to launch a trial of a clothing sharing service, which is called “Any Wear, Anywhere.” The idea is that foreign tourists and business travelers landing in Japan on JAL will be able to rent clothes for their trip, meaning they just have to bring their underwear and socks.
Here’s how JAL describes the concept behind this service:
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You can go to goodwill and buy dead people’s clothes. I don’t see much of a difference.
When I go to Kauai I buy cheap surfboards from Costco, use them for 2 weeks and then sell them on Craigslist for about half of what I paid for theme. Saves me hundreds of dollars.
Have a nice coat waiting for you at your winter destination instead of schlepping one?
Or something fashionable and/or culturally appropriate for your destination?
Depending on price, I might consider it.
I’m surprised that Japan would indulge and such ridiculousness.
I just donated the clothes back to the shop. I had lived there for a few years and knew the best shops. I knew where the 5-Star resorts donated their recycled employee uniforms and clothes left behind by guests.
What about former users who had leakage problems?
“Global Warming is killing the planet. It is deadly serious”
“If you believe that, ban all flights into your country”
“It’s not that serious”
Japan is very interesting to visit.
But get out quickly. There are many huge and totally unexpected problems, that are not listed anywhere.
They try to show off Japan in best light to short term visitors, but, if you somehow stay too long, you are asking for a lot of trouble!
Having only a carry-on when airlines are charging $50 or to 75 per bag each way on international flight. Plus not having a cart to luggage on Tokyo subway or their shuttle buses. cabs are crazy expensive in Tokyo don’t forget the fee to get to and from the airport in a cab as well. Just having socks, boxers in a carry-on plus a hoodie and maybe a North Face being able to rent a couple pairs of jeans a couple of polos a couple of button-down shirts the same would apply for New York City or London both of which you don’t want to be carting luggage through their subway systems and they have crazy expensive cabs to and from their airports.
If the cost of renting two or three days worth of clothes and having laundry service at the hotel is cheaper or as expensive as the bag fees the convenience alone would make it worth it
What are these problems? I have spent weeks and mmonths in Japan never an issue. They are by far the cleanest most organized and disciplined country I have ever been in. I would move to Japan in a heartbeat it’s hard to get perm res even with multiple master’s and a PhD if you are older than 45.
First, they do not like foreigners who trying to settle there. See lack of permission, and trying to get you out of there if you overstayed their welcome. Even speaking fluent Japanese is put of for them.
(I heard these stories from many independent sources, I have not tried to stay in Japan myself! Never!)
But even my short stays, I observed - massive drunkenness! The streets in the evening were just covered with vomit!
Major mistreatment of women, in US you would be fired or locked in jail.
Totally crowded place. Japanese are squeezed in tiny houses with tiny garages and no yards, streets are crowded, etc.
Crazy local customs and superstitions, like Japanese shunning mountains - Mountains are for ghosts!
And many such things.
For short time, one can squeeze in tiny room, walk carefully avoiding stepping in vomit and close ones eyes on rampant “sexual harassment”. But I could not last there too long!
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