Alright, the bathrooms here in Japan are really whacked out. At home we have one room with a urinal in it, which I never enter and therefore know nothing about. But in another room we have the toilet that everybody can use. Thankfully it's a western style toilet instead of a squat toilet. In fact it's a really nice western style toilet. The seat is always warm and it has a panel of buttons on the side that you can choose from. For example one button makes it shoot water at you so you don't have to wipe yourself. Another button plays music while you do your business. And when you're done you can push the flusher two ways. If you press the one at my house down, then it does a small flush and if you press it up it does a big flush. So, basically, if you do a number 2 you press up. And when you press it, while it flushes, water will come out of the faucet in the mini sink that is on top of the tank.
At school we have some nice bathrooms, but the toilet seats aren't warmed, which is kinda not nice in winter. But they have these nice little boxes in every stall attached to the wall that has a sensor. And if you stick your palm up in front of the sensor it'll start playing this flushing sound for about 25 seconds while you do your business. Every stall also comes equipped with toilet seat sanitizer.
However, most public restrooms have a majority of squat toilets, which I absolutely refuse to use. I've been into those bathrooms and they smell absolutely horrible. There's always urine all over the floor, too, which is just gross.
But some of the buildings have these little areas of bumps on the floors. At first I thought they were just random, but it turns out they are sensors too. Like in one of the building's stair wells they have the bumpy things at the top and bottom of each set of stairs. When you step on them the lights come on either downstairs or upstairs, wherever you're headed. They also have those for the bathrooms as well as the escalators. The escalators are always working, but when you step on the bumps they speed up.
Another convenience about Japan is that you pay your insurance and other bills at the convenience stores! Any convenience store, you show them the paper, they stamp it, you pay it. It's kind of cool, except you have to pay in cash. That's one bad thing about living here, you have to pay with cash at most places.
2 comments:
Oh god...squatting to go? People have enough trouble aiming right and putting the seat down. They don't need the fear of falling ass-backwards into a toilet or accidentally having a miss-fire and going on their pants. Does a bear sh*t in the woods? Yes. Do you need to mimic how he does it in a public restroom? No.
The other toilets sound interesting though. There's nothing like a little music to make you forget what you're actually doing.
High tech doo-doo! You should go into the urinal room just to say you've been there.
Dad
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