A Japanese Bath

        Today I’m going to talk about Japanese bathrooms. Oh man, really crazy stuff. The setup of a bathroom is in the picture below.
        The first big difference is the showers. I will tell you how to take a Japanese shower (for the picture below any way). First, sit down on a tub. Use fill up a bucket and get yourself wet. To get the water going you'd push a button or turn a nozzle then turn it off. Shampoo your hair, use conditioner, scrub your body or whatever clean yourself (I'm not going to spell out how to take a shower ok). Fill the bucket again and repeat. Once your clean you can then step into the tub and soak in the hot water like it's a hot tub. It's very important to wash yourself outside of the tub before getting into it. Others will use the tub as well so you don’t drain the water and waste it. Since a person already washed themselves outside the tub, Japanese don’t have any qualms about reusing the tub. Most Japanese also take showers or baths at night instead of in the mornings like most Americans. They sometimes have a hierarchy to who gets to use the bath first. Depending on the family, the father or guest will go first and enjoy the warm bath water. The mother will go next, then the eldest child on down.
        Now for toilets. Most Japanese homes have a separate, kind of closet like space for the toilet. It’s separate from the bathroom and only consists of a toilet sometimes a sink. Usually the sinks in the bathroom. Some toilets have all sorts of gadgets on the toilet like a seat warmer. Let us say you get up in winter in the middle of the night and you have to go. Well, no worries about a cold toilet seat. They might also have a device on the wall with options of a bigger or smaller flush depending on ...well you know. Another option is the spray, where the toilet will wash your bottom. Water temperature control for the spray button is another one on the toilet control panel. There are probably others but I think that’s all I can take of freaky things you can do with a Japanese toilet.

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Contemporary Japanese Bathroom

Japanese Toilet