About lodgings in Japan

Ryokan entrance

a room of Ryokan

a shared bath of Ryokan (some ryokans offer hot springs)

If you stay at a Japanese style inn, at first, you have to take off your shoes at the entrance, and switch to slippers. You do not enter into your room with slippers. Before entering your room, there is a small space to take off the slippers, so you enter the Japanese style room barefoot. I think you can relax sitting on a tatami floor barefoot. You have to make sure about the times and the place for dinner and breakfast. Japanese inns serve the meals in your room or in a large dining room. And the time is fixed. If the inn has a shared bath, you can enjoy soaking in a hot water bath tub. While taking bath, you will be surprised that some staffs enter your room and lay out futon, which is Japanese bedding.