One of the most curious things (IMHO) about Japan is the fanatical devotion to the bathroom. We're talking high end here - we stopped in to the Yodobashi Camera store and discovered the fancy seat warming, multi-directional spray toilet seats run for several thousand Yen (the equivalent of $300+ in the US). Every bathtub is super deep and is designed with a gutter and overflow drain on the OUTSIDE of the tub, indicating they are to be filled to overflowing.
All this technology has, apparently, brought new fangled flushers with it. I like to think of myself as a fairly resourceful girl, able to figure many things out quickly, but these flushers have left me scratching my head more than once. Turns out they are frequently a wall button of one kind or another - sometimes embedded among 50 other wall buttons, all labeled in Japanese only.
Yesterday I ended up in a bathroom where a sign near the sink said press wall button for emergency only to call security (this was the only English in the bathroom). Stepping into the stall I found two wall buttons labeled in kanji and no indiciation of which flushes and which calls security! After spending a few minutes contemplating how you would explain the inability to understand kanji and flushing wall buttons as an 'emergency', I crossed my fingers and picked a button. WOOSH!
I can definately say I've never been more happy about a trip to the restroom. :)
3 comments:
it is the toilet that pees on you!
It's also a toilet that makes some decisions for you based on some of Tom's experiences - HAL the toilet seat :)
is that a toilet or a japanese drinking fountain?
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