Thursday, March 11, 2010

In a typical family home in Japan, would you find a toilet in the same room as the bath?

an answer which is more than a yes or no is much appreciatedIn a typical family home in Japan, would you find a toilet in the same room as the bath?
Japanese culture doesn't allow people to do excretion and cleaning at one place.





Actually they really wish to enjoy washing their body on floor outside of bath tub in the bath room and take a bath to get warm up the body in the tub(no body-washing there) quite long time and in and out several time repeatedly if necessary.





It takes 10 to 15 minutes to go bathing. In addition, Japanese are smaller and they tend to smaller intestines so they often go to pee or poo much more than Western people.





Toilet is basically apart from the bath room independently to avoid that incident you have to share the space with somebody who moves his/her bowels just next to you wash your body on the same floor.





Some narrow modern cheap apartment for single use or small family use may have unit bath with toilet for space efficiency but that is exceptional case.





So for most of Japanese, a bathroom means only a bath, not any excreting place at all. Go to the bathroom would be go to washing hands in Japanese actually either.In a typical family home in Japan, would you find a toilet in the same room as the bath?
Absolutely not.





Although some cheap small temporary apartments do have them in the same room, it's seen as very bad.





Japanese culture has historically made separations between dirty and clean places and things. Shoes should not be worn inside a house (this is deeply inculcated); you symbolically wash your hands and mouth before entering shinto shrine grounds, and toilets and baths/showers should be kept separate.





What sometimes surprises westerners is that Japanese family members share bathwater. Baths are for relaxing, never washing; you should always shower properly before you go in. As a result, the bath is considered clean.





The Japanese have also been at the forefront of high-tech toilets. The array of buttons on them is astonishing.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washlet#Jap鈥?/a>





There is also a ';sound princess'; button in many female public toilets to save Japanese women from the widespread habit of flushing as they pee to cover the sound of them peeing. It makes the same noise as the flush, but saves on water.
No, they consider it very weird to have toilets and baths in the same room. I showed my students photos of my American house and they were very surprised to see a toilet in the same room as the shower, bath, and sink.





Usually the toilet room contains only a toilet and nothing else. Every toilet I've seen in a Japanese house or apartment has the type of tank that has a sink on it so the water that runs to refill the tank can also be used to wash your hands.





In apartments (I can't speak for old style Japanese homes) the room with the shower in it often also doubles as a laundry room. You'll find a room with a sink, mirror and washing machine, and the shower/bath is attached to that room separated only by a shower curtain or shower door.
My host-family had three separate mini-rooms that made up the bathroom. On was a small room with nothing but a toilet and was completely and utterly separate from the rest of the bathroom. The second room was sub-divided into two rooms. The first one you walked into had the sink for stuff like washing up and brushing your teeth. The shower and bathtub were in the second sub-division and was separated by both a door and a short step up (probably to accommodate the tub, which was sunk into the floor). I have no idea if all or even most Japanese families have a set-up like that, but my host-family acted as though it was pretty typical.
You mean in the same room as the bathtub? No, almost never together.


The toilet is in a small room of its own and the bathtub is in a tiled room with a drain (so you can sit on a stool and scrub Japanese-style). Usually the tub room is just off the laundry room which also serves as a changing room.
No. To the Japanese way of thinking, a bath is not just a place to wash yourself. A bath is view as a form of relaxation where you soak in the water of an hour or so. In the kinds of small house or apartment that most Japanese live in, can you imagine the kinds of inconvience of having someone ';hold it'; while your bathing?
In my apartment, the bathroom and toilet are technically in the same room, but they are separated by another door.
What do you mean by the same room?





Usually, they are next to each other but in different rooms (each of them have doors).
of course NOT


In my house we have 2 toilets AND a bathroom
i would thank so yes
ya

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