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Title: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: Somerled on December 14, 2010, 09:11:08 AM
Just an FYI:

http://www.budgettravel.com/bt-srv/gallery/1011_ReadersJapan/index.html?jumpToPic=25


Also, I apprecite the fact that they sell TP too.

(if people think this may get me hit with the ban stick, I'll happily edit out the URL)
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: oakranger on December 14, 2010, 11:25:52 AM
I really do not see how this could get "the ban stick".
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: Somerled on December 14, 2010, 11:33:46 AM
I'm not sure either, but i thought it better be safe than sorry.
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: ozrocker on December 14, 2010, 11:56:01 AM
 :rofl
                         <S> Oz
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: allaire on December 14, 2010, 02:32:36 PM
That sign isn't so odd.  I have heard that they have squat toilets in Japan, enough so that signs like that are needed.
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: Ack-Ack on December 14, 2010, 03:17:14 PM
That sign isn't so odd.  I have heard that they have squat toilets in Japan, enough so that signs like that are needed.

I've been to Tokyo a few times and I've never seen any "squat toilets" in any of the homes, hotels, or restaurant/bars that I went to.  Did see a vending machine with used girl's underwear but no squat toilets.

ack-ack
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: ozrocker on December 15, 2010, 06:28:57 AM
I've been to Tokyo a few times and I've never seen any "squat toilets" in any of the homes, hotels, or restaurant/bars that I went to.  Did see a vending machine with used  girl's underwear but no squat toilets.

ack-ack
Used? :rofl :rofl
                              
                                                                                    <S> Oz
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: allaire on December 15, 2010, 08:01:21 PM
That is understandable since that photo is from a Shinto Shrine in Kyoto.
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: sky25 on December 15, 2010, 08:29:15 PM
I've been to Tokyo a few times and I've never seen any "squat toilets" in any of the homes, hotels, or restaurant/bars that I went to.  Did see a vending machine with used girl's underwear but no squat toilets.

ack-ack

A used female underwear machine? There must be some major fettish freaks in Japan...
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: Meatwad on December 15, 2010, 08:30:34 PM
A used female underwear machine? There must be some major fettish freaks in Japan...

There is.
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: jolly22 on December 15, 2010, 08:45:39 PM
 :rofl :rofl

(http://letterstoadyingdream.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/japanese-panty-machines.jpg?w=424&h=550)
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: Tigger29 on December 15, 2010, 11:33:27 PM
In case you were wondering about the 'squat toilet' there was a good example in the movie "Mr. Baseball"... definitely an underrated movie.

I could see how someone who was used to this could possibly misuse a 'modern' western-style toilet:

(http://f00.inventorspot.com/images/float356.img_assist_custom.jpg)
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: VonMessa on December 16, 2010, 01:18:25 AM
Used? :rofl :rofl
                              
                                                                                    <S> Oz

I can't see a reason for a machine with NEW ones...
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: OOZ662 on December 16, 2010, 03:29:34 AM
Upping the ante.
(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff255/OOZ662/Funnies/toilet-in-Japan.jpg)
Claimed to be an unedited image, but this being the internet, who knows.
Also, I have an image of a vending machine that dispenses half-naked Asian women. Being what it is, I don't think it'd be wise to link it, but I'm sure a small amount of Google-fu would unearth it.
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: AWwrgwy on December 16, 2010, 04:59:46 PM
In case you were wondering about the 'squat toilet' there was a good example in the movie "Mr. Baseball"... definitely an underrated movie.

I could see how someone who was used to this could possibly misuse a 'modern' western-style toilet:

(http://f00.inventorspot.com/images/float356.img_assist_custom.jpg)

THAT needs instructions.

Interesting use of a urinal.


wrongway
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: Motherland on December 16, 2010, 05:10:46 PM
There must be some major fettish freaks in Japan...
You're clearly not very familiar with Japan.
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: Bruv119 on December 17, 2010, 05:02:06 AM
THAT needs instructions.

Interesting use of a urinal.


wrongway

i'm thinking the big fat guys (Sumo wrestlers)    would be too large to sit normally so they squat instead. 

How do overly Obese Americans do it?
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: bustr on December 17, 2010, 12:00:07 PM
In the late 60's I lived on Hokkaido Island up near Siberia at Wakkanai. Very rural and mountainous. Home of Sapporo Beer. I was traveling by bus to a pre teen christian summer camp in the center of the island and we had to stop to let the girls use the potty. Seems they didn't want to use the bus's steps like us boys. Driver would crack the doors a bit and well.....

So we pull into a train station in a small rural Hokkaido town. Everything is made of wood and looks like it hasen't changed since the Sino-Japanese war. The restrooms are a low wooden building with two doors. Girls go in one side, boys the other. The only difference between the girls side and the boys side was we had a wooden trough urinal in the center of the room. Other than that both sides had the same wooden stepup area with neatly spaced holes in the floor to squat over. No partitions, just a bunch of holes in the floor with roles of TP hanging from the wall.

We boys all man the trough, stare at the holes and crack jokes about the girls in the other room, then head back to the bus. Did I mention how thin the wall was between the girls and boys sides of the place and that the roles of TP for both sides hung on a communal wall? Well, seems the girls heard all the cracks about our observations on how they would fair with their holes in the floor opposed to our trough to stand at.

The nice japanese lady who sold tickets had to come in and demonstrate the fine art of squatting to our american girls. The next 2 hours on the bus was very silent and the girls all crowded into the back and glared at us. But then we boys spent the next 2 hours cracking up about anything if it had the word squat or wood in it.
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: Lusche on December 17, 2010, 02:05:49 PM
i'm thinking the big fat guys (Sumo wrestlers)    would be too large to sit normally so they squat instead. 

How do overly Obese Americans do it?


Though I'm no American, I'm on good way to find that out. I guess the experiment will take another fiver years only  :uhoh
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: VonMessa on December 17, 2010, 03:09:03 PM

Though I'm no American, I'm on good way to find that out. I guess the experiment will take another fiver years only  :uhoh

Snail-san practicing for sumo?
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: Dragon on December 17, 2010, 03:15:22 PM
Snail-san practicing for sumo?


LMFOA  :rofl
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: Lusche on December 17, 2010, 03:18:27 PM
Snail-san practicing for sumo?

Only the food&fat part, dropping all stuff that could be seen as "activity". I'm reaching for the lofty rank of Obeso-sama ...
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: VonMessa on December 17, 2010, 03:24:04 PM
Only the food&fat part, dropping all stuff that could be seen as "activity". I'm reaching for the lofty rank of Obeso-sama ...

Too many kartoffelknoedel ?   :P
Title: Re: Important information on using toilets in Japan
Post by: Scherf on December 17, 2010, 04:11:41 PM
i'm thinking the big fat guys (Sumo wrestlers)    would be too large to sit normally so they squat instead. 

The guys with a high enough ranking get younger, lower-ranked guys assigned to them. The latters' duties include wiping the big guys', um, area.


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