Cheryl took these pictures of some very Japanese features in every house we visited. This happens to be in our rental house.
This is the shower. There are little buckets that you fill with water to get wet. Then you turn off the water, soap up and shampoo your hair. Then you rinse off using the hand-held shower. Because this is an older house, there wasn't a stand-up shower. My brother was so glad to get to the hotel in Kyoto! It's a great way to conserve water, though. You only run the water to get wet and rinse off. It's not running the entire time you're in the shower. Which is good when it's warm. In the winter, it's not so good.
After you've scrubbed off all the dead skin on your body and rinsed off thoroughly, you can take a bath if you want. But it's just to soak in. The tub is deep and filled with very hot water. Because you're clean when you get in, the whole family can soak before dumping the water and refilling the tub.
This is just as you enter the bath/shower room. The sink is to the left. The washer connection is next to it. The door on the right leads into the bath/shower.
This is the toilet in our rented house. Toilets are in a separate room from the bath/shower room. The little faucet on top is where you wash your hands as it fills the tank. It's ingenious.
A public toilet. Almost all of the public toilets we visited were very clean.
In Japan, even the most modern homes have foyers where you leave your shoes. You either walk barefooted or put on slippers in the house.
This is the shower. There are little buckets that you fill with water to get wet. Then you turn off the water, soap up and shampoo your hair. Then you rinse off using the hand-held shower. Because this is an older house, there wasn't a stand-up shower. My brother was so glad to get to the hotel in Kyoto! It's a great way to conserve water, though. You only run the water to get wet and rinse off. It's not running the entire time you're in the shower. Which is good when it's warm. In the winter, it's not so good.
After you've scrubbed off all the dead skin on your body and rinsed off thoroughly, you can take a bath if you want. But it's just to soak in. The tub is deep and filled with very hot water. Because you're clean when you get in, the whole family can soak before dumping the water and refilling the tub.
This is just as you enter the bath/shower room. The sink is to the left. The washer connection is next to it. The door on the right leads into the bath/shower.
This is the toilet in our rented house. Toilets are in a separate room from the bath/shower room. The little faucet on top is where you wash your hands as it fills the tank. It's ingenious.
A public toilet. Almost all of the public toilets we visited were very clean.
In Japan, even the most modern homes have foyers where you leave your shoes. You either walk barefooted or put on slippers in the house.
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Notice you say "almost" all the public toilets are clean...
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