Japanese Toilets
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Tue 2007/08/07 22:22
Both signs ask customers not to *eat* or stay in the toilet for a prolonged period of time.
I dont think I could ever bring myself to eat in a toilet - especially when I have a severe case of the diarrhea where bits of watery poo would splash all over the place and end up *in* my food. If I was eating a curry pot noodle - I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Most of the public toilets in Tokyo are pretty clean. Many of them don't have towels near the sink however - all Japanese seem to carry a handkerchief or tissues.
Some toilets in Shinjuku really stink and induce that "want-to-vomit" feeling. There must be a special word for this - you know when you start to go "uuegh, uuueeeghh!" I remember many toilets around Oxford street in London being the same smell. The worst toilets I encountered however were in Seattle. Toilets have these huge gaps in them so that you can see who's inside taking a dump. I was told that the doors were made like that as many drug takers used toilets to get their dose.
First time visitors to Japan may walk into a cubicle only to find that its a Japanese style toilet or "Washiki Toilet" (和式トイレ). Because your payload lands on the ceramic right below you (instead of in water), you immediately get a whiff of your fresh steamy cake. The design also allows to you inspect your cake close up - even if you dont want to.
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Government agent
the king of toilets....malaysian toilets....where everyone can share their cake cos no one seems to know how to work the flush
(ID #53724) Posted on 2007/08/07 22:20
Director/Technical Director, Cameraman
Theres so many nice toilets in japan, but i foudn one weird one in a restaurant in kyoto. before the water entered the bowl after you flushed, it had a tap ontop so you could wash your hands with clean toilet water. weirdest thing ive seen, expecially since they had a sink right next to it.
(ID #53725) Posted on 2007/08/07 22:22
I've seen the washiki toilet, decided against it as "western toilets" were on the side ^-^. The bathrooms here are cleaned by the state, but they do smell with all that goes on in the bathroom.
(ID #53729) Posted on 2007/08/07 22:38
"Smelly" Recruit
singapore toilets are smelly too..imagine the smell of urine and poo when u enter..
(ID #53730) Posted on 2007/08/07 22:48
e-jump in Malaysia
that toilet in the pic is made that way so that your bombs wont splash straight into the water an make the water splash up ur butt. But yeah, i glipmse of ur cake =__=". But If you're a pro, you can put ur butt straight under the water hole and aim for bullseye LOL
(ID #53731) Posted on 2007/08/07 22:54
Av4rice
"There must be a special word for this - you know when you start to go "uuegh, uuueeeghh!" Gagging or heaving. If you try puking while your stomach is empty (and nothing comes out) it's called dry heaving.
(ID #53732) Posted on 2007/08/07 23:16
What the... I can't believe you just posted this for everyone to see!
(ID #53733) Posted on 2007/08/07 23:41
Steaming cake lol, always take it a bit too far dont you danny ^^; Cant imagine how bad the smell must be.
(ID #53734) Posted on 2007/08/07 23:51
Japanese toilets are magnificent! Toto toilets are awesome! They have like air-fresheners, heaters, dryers, water jets- for the perfect flush! Here in Toronto, especially the subways, reek of inhumane odors with no fresh surface air nearby. The french have some pretty ones too.
(ID #53735) Posted on 2007/08/07 23:55
Accountant
This is the first time I've seen "cake" used in this context. Thanks Danny, I may never be able to eat dessert ever again D:
(ID #53736) Posted on 2007/08/08 00:06
Everything
I love that they request people not eat while using the toilet. Never would I have imagined this to happen often enough to be a problem that required a sign.
(ID #53738) Posted on 2007/08/08 00:14
Troubleshooter, Universal Exports
Never could understand why someone would want to eat on the loo... I better be careful, just finished eating dinner. Never had someone describe restroom so well. ^^; I couldn't stop laughing, good work Danny.
(ID #53739) Posted on 2007/08/08 00:40
Policy & Research Officer
Too early to share a post like this, I nearly was unable to carry on eating my sandwich. urgh ~ =P
(ID #53740) Posted on 2007/08/08 00:43
"Thanks" for that bit of information way to graphic...
(ID #53742) Posted on 2007/08/08 00:48
i heard that they opened a 4 story public bathroom.. gold lined and everything.. A PUBLIC TOILET! he he stinky, makes you wish ya brought a gas mask... :D
(ID #53744) Posted on 2007/08/08 00:54
I've seen Japanese prank videos where guys squat on washiki public-cubicle-type toilets, then 10 seconds after you close the door (without warning), a machine will open up the roof hatch, and bring up the floor to that level, letting the public see you hiney-nekkid. Our streets mostly have male public toilets in pink. No door, no tissue, no clean running water to wash your hands. Commonly, cab drivers use them. When people pass by it, it reeks of pee.
(ID #53747) Posted on 2007/08/08 00:57
Aimless Traveler
Although there are a bit of improvements with toilets and toilet etiquette in my place, there are still ignorant ones who couldn't bother to use the goddamn toilet flush and some stinkin' brats like to play with the roll of toilet papers. Of course, I'm talking public toilets around the city center. Further ahead outta the city and it usually looks like Silent Hill.
(ID #53750) Posted on 2007/08/08 01:25
lol, Danny I think the word(s) you were looking for is "gagging- sensation" or "gag-reflex".
(ID #53751) Posted on 2007/08/08 01:50
Programmer, Web Developer / Web Designer
Japanese toilet are the cleanest and most advanced I have been into. Just be careful about the water pressure knob/button. Sometime people forget to turn down the pressure and you will be in for a surprise OoO. I think if they have a small LCD TV I might have stayed longer to escape from office work for a few minutes LOL.
(ID #53754) Posted on 2007/08/08 02:46
If I'm not mistaken, you've ever featured those automated toilets that comes with warm seats and nozzles that squirt water where it matters? You can get high playing with those.
(ID #53755) Posted on 2007/08/08 02:49
A Hong Konger in Ohio
All American toilet have big gap in the toilet stall. I missed the Asian toilets. Also those crouching toilet are more sanitary because you don't share germs with a toilet site and no splash.
(ID #53756) Posted on 2007/08/08 02:53
i just had my lunch..gossh danny, it is yucks. yeah most japanese toilet is clean..but they dont have water to wash your butt.now i knw how big is my stools...when i come to japan. all this time i nvr knw it is so big n long.
(ID #53759) Posted on 2007/08/08 03:06
in hk all da toilets are quite clean , BUT! not the public ones dey stink but dey are gradually getting better.
(ID #53763) Posted on 2007/08/08 03:15
Samurai
God, don't remind me. When I first landed in Japan, I got on the subway and when I reached Fukuoka station, I needed to go to the bathroom. This was the kind of toilet I encountered. I thought to myself, what have I gotten into. Eventually, you learn to squat like the rest of em'.
(ID #53767) Posted on 2007/08/08 04:02
Student
This is me complaining about the UK...again. You would think that the toilets would be GREAT in GREAT BRITAIN. But no....they are some of the worst ive been in. Pee all over the floor. Fresh "chocolate" in the toilets and tracing paper for toilet paper. When i was Dubai, the situation was completley different. It was like walking into a suite. There were even small tv monitors built into the wall above every cubible so you could watch tv while you fix the leak.
(ID #53774) Posted on 2007/08/08 05:21
.NET/Web Developer
I really hate toilets like that. I really find it so uncomfortable. Can't remember a public toilet that I find clean enough to be able to take a poo in.
(ID #53776) Posted on 2007/08/08 05:32
Too much info about the diahorrea splashback... 0.o But yeah, public loos in public places like Yoyogi park arent in the best condition (tramps and drunks use them a lot) but toilets in shops such as Mos burger, starbucks or Yoshinoya crap on the toilets we have in the uk - most of them are washlets! I really miss those - especially the day after a booze-up :-( Ive only ever had a pee in one of those trough toilets. I would rather crap my pants than do the stooping thing over one of them!
(ID #53779) Posted on 2007/08/08 05:53
oh it remind me of klia. i like klia airport toilet...very clean... but most restaurant toilet n public toilet in japan is clean. XD
(ID #53780) Posted on 2007/08/08 06:10
anime/cosplay events organizer
LOL washiki toilets XDD those things also exist in Hong Kong XD i really taking the public toilet (especially the portalets) >< public toilet = unsanitary
(ID #53786) Posted on 2007/08/08 08:54
VF-25 Pilot. Universariate Scholar.
No, hard feelings but the worst toilet that i have ever been to was in china where there were no doors at all though that was some years ago. Toilets in Malaysia are most famous for being virtually irreparable because after it is serviced, some fool will just destroy it again or clog it up with trash. Also, i have heard of cases of mugging taking place in toilets quite often. Well, at least the toilets i encountered while in japan were quite ok with the exception of the one in Meiji Jinja which was surprisingly smelly.
(ID #53791) Posted on 2007/08/08 10:20
Gundamjehutykai in Foundation II: Stellvia
God, I remember using one of those toilets when I went to Japan... Weird experience. But at least the public toilets were usable! When I went to Malaysia, I tried to aviod the public toilets like the plague simply because they looked unusable...
(ID #53794) Posted on 2007/08/08 10:44
Anime Store Owner, artist, Web master
I'm from Selden on Long Island in New York.... not only are the public bathrooms like stinky wet caves... on a good Saturday night the people in this town pick any spot for a bathroom. They should have signs in places here here saying "Bathrooms are located in the back, not where you currently stand."
(ID #53802) Posted on 2007/08/08 12:44
If you need to go in Akiba, go to Yodobashi Camera (yes, the one in the post). They even have bidets installed! But I've noticed once outside Tokyo, the washrooms dont have soap ;;;
(ID #53803) Posted on 2007/08/08 12:54
Student
The sad thing is that restrooms in ALL of the schools I've been to are poorly maintained. We rarely have toilet paper or paper towels, or soap. The stalls don't have locks anymore, so as you're poo-ing away you have to worry about holding the door shut.(thats why I load up on peptobismol before I go to school, its just that bad -_-;)
(ID #53809) Posted on 2007/08/08 16:28
Before I went to Japan, I was told how to use those kinds of toilets. However, when I was in Ueno, the stall was so tiny, I wasn't sure which way to face, so I ended up using it like a Western style toilet.
(ID #53813) Posted on 2007/08/08 18:48
Sergio in in my toilet!!! Damn!
the toilets in Chile sucks! looks like the people cant find the hole to make the s**** so is full of "death natures" my god, a clean toilet!! please!!
(ID #53814) Posted on 2007/08/08 20:23
First of all, Danny, thank you for this thoughtful post. ;) I tend to only pee (never poo) in public restrooms. I tend also to keep my breath to avoid incoming potential odors and stay no longer than one minute on my watch. Those toilets look like the Turkish ones, where you have to aim well (!) or have to crouch to drop your stuff and have a clean hit (You see what I mean? Good!). Eating WHILE being in the toilets? You have to be jesting. Going to the restroom just after eating is something I already don't like to do and I go for the technique described in paragraph 2. Thanks again for those little pieces of not-so-useful information. Good for laughs but not so great when you're eating/just having eaten/about to eat/thinking of your next meal. Hopefully I'm not concerned. Keep that up (Better than those cross-dressing posts!!)! XD
(ID #53818) Posted on 2007/08/08 21:06
Director/代表取締役
Otaku Blue, Lol at tracing paper. I remember those. Ouch.
(ID #53886) Posted on 2007/08/09 09:33
I can relate to that very first comment. D: The worst one was like this though, flush and cockroaches start flowing down. That was in a school and that was the first and lasst time I'd see something like that.
(ID #53888) Posted on 2007/08/09 09:42
lol this reminds me of the toilets in the food market region in hong kong lol ~ always wanna do ym business quick and run for my life~ lol
(ID #53914) Posted on 2007/08/09 16:37
Interactive Media Design and Graphic Design
hahaha god this topics brings back some scary memories of public toilets in Belarus (Easter Europe) when I was living there. Scary nightmares. Here in Maryland, USA. I don't really know. I rarely use public toilets and most of the times I need to go I'm in University and those are good, same with my work.
(ID #53945) Posted on 2007/08/10 00:07
Ugh...that "watery diarrhea flying everywhere" part was well...a bit disturbing...I mean sure, I have diarrhea every now an then....but it doesn't go all over the place...then again...I've never had diarrhea on those types of toilets. But I must say (from personal experience), even taking a regular crap/piss on one of those is a challenge...and a bit messy.
(ID #53981) Posted on 2007/08/10 05:49
Lotsa public toilets are "styled" like that haha, yea they bring u up close and personal with "yourself"
(ID #54008) Posted on 2007/08/10 11:35
**Opps forget to mention that..lotsa them are like that, in my country. lol Lotsa public toilets are "styled" like that haha, yea they bring u up close and personal with "yourself"
(ID #54010) Posted on 2007/08/10 11:39
I can't stay or read when i'm in a toilet, not to mention eating inside. Urrggg... =0
(ID #54114) Posted on 2007/08/11 07:08
they have washiki toilets in pakistan. its like a hit or miss thing.
(ID #55441) Posted on 2007/08/25 23:19
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
Japanese toilets are much much cleaner than their Indonesian counterparts! What with smelly, lotsa insects in the water...
(ID #66121) Posted on 2007/12/06 04:49
really weird toilets... one question though, how come if you have two pictures you got them from three different sites?
(ID #201696) Posted on 2008/06/01 04:22
Sales Manager by day, Gunpla Otaku by Night...
I enjoy these posts that highlight somewhat of a preoccupation with poo, and also your eloquent descriptions. The part about food and curry was particularly fetching. Bravo. I always wanted to try a 和式トイレ but have never had a kame san awaiting departure when the opportunity has arisen.
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