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was the toilet in our hotel. We saw similar toilets in all of our hotels and most of the restaurants we visited. Some were so high tech, I never figured out how to flush them. I’m sorry, Japan! Automatic flushing was not part of the technology – which is weird, right?
Some interesting Japanese Toilet facts:
1. They almost all have a setting where they make noise as soon as you sit down. We decided that this feature is used to muffle the sounds of whatever you are doing on the toilet. You know how people sort of clam up (if you will) when someone else enters the bathroom? Well never fear, the rushing water will help disguise any sounds being made. This feature was most irritating in the middle of the night. It’s so loud, I was worried it would wake Nick up….so I just hovered. This seemed to not trigger whatever sensor was being used. Problem solving in action, kids.
2. The seats are heated. And we couldn’t figure out how to turn that setting off. The seat in one of our hotels was so warm, Nick actually turned to the internet to figure out how to turn it down. He couldn’t figure it out.
3. All those buttons….for the sake of science, I pressed all of them. Yes. I did. I learned the hard way that you need to be sitting all the way back on the toilet, otherwise the water sprays out the back. Rookie mistake. The fancier toilets have buttons that increase or decrease the pressure and also buttons that make the sprayer oscillate. Others even have dryers. And the fanciest ones have a remote control attached to the wall.
I don’t really get it. As long as I have a regular toilet and toilet paper, I’m happy. As noted in a previous post, the weirdest part about all of this toilet technology, is that Japan still has many restrooms with western toilets and squat toilets. And one restroom I visited ONLY had a squat toilet. It doesn’t make sense. But I’m thankful for these crazy toilets – got a blog post out of it!