1. Japanese bathrooms come with their own footwear. 2. Japan has toilets and bathrooms — and never the twain shall meet. 3 Japan loves its Washlets. 4. But, Japan also loves its squat toilets. 5. Japanese women don’t have bathroom gossip sessions.
Grandma called it ‘doing your business’.
I am really wanting to go over there just to try these out.
Been to Japan scores of times. Nobody but foreign barbarians walk around eating food. The concourses at the airports are spotless. A native will go to Starbucks and consume their entire purchase in the store.
You train out of Tokyo and pass a cement plant which is without cement dust. Workers are all about the facility sweeping and vacuuming up particles. The cleanest manufacturing places in the world.
I’ve always made a habit of taking my shoes off at the front door. It just makes sense not to track stuff through your house. I don’t impose it on guests though.
Most also have Western commodes, all divided by stalls.
There’s a direct relationship between a country’s level of civilization and advancement and the cleanliness of their bathrooms
The digital toilets were pretty funny. squat toilets not so much.
And yet...the Japanese have taken scatological porn to the most disgusting limits imaginable.
once you have used a bidet ... you will never go back.
its like the difference between washing you hands and cleaning them off with a paper towel.
I was over there on business 15 years ago. They had both types of toilets at work in different stalls. The electronic one had fans and water jets but only japanese instructions! I was afraid a fan would come out and cut something off. I used the hole in ground ‘squat’ toilet instead. Call me chicken.
I worked with a Japanese man who always washed his hands before urinating. That way he does not transfer germs from his hands to his male part. That is not a bad idea.
I get the impression that my size 13 feet, would cause problems for me in Japan.
Japanese love their soaplands where you can pay young girls to bathe you (cover for prostitution)
Wait a minnit... Wouldn't one not want to be caught with their pants UP when nature calls? At least, that's how it works for me... Maybe I'm doing it wrong all these years.
And if anyone thought to reply, "Depends", I beat you to it. ; )
I’m going to Japan in June.
Good to know.
Do they have those 3-D paintings in the bathrooms?
Do they show the Super Terrific Happy Hour in there?
Two ends of the continuum appear in the trains. On the one hand, the local spurs have toilets through whose holes one may see the trackbed speeding by. I...um...kid you not. On the other, the luxury trains down the Izu peninsula have toilets so high-tech you need an engineering degree to poop with propriety. We're talking automatic sliding seat protectors, a programmable bidet, and buttons with cryptic kanji on them that you press at the risk of the well-being of yer harbles. And that's in the bar car.
A former place of employment, which employed many Asians from several countries, had a real problem with the toilets that had seats. At least in the women’s bathroom, some of the women would ‘squat’ on top of the toilet seat. Seriously. Most of the toilets seats were broken and you didn’t want to try sitting on them for two reasons: one-they had been squatting on them with their shoes on (and medical laboratories have lots of germs on the floors) and two-the seat was unstable and any slight movement, by you, on the seat could throw you off onto the floor. The place had two bathrooms with about 18 stalls total for the women......every seat was broken.