As many of you know, the Japanese are well known for their high-tech toilets. I can't say that I'm a fan.
For a nation that prides itself on its sustainability it seems a little contradictory to be heating a toilet seat all day long, especially when it's 30 degrees outside. And to me a warm toilet seat just means that someone has recently spent a long time sitting on there before you... and that's not something I want to contemplate.
But my main issue with high-tech toilets is when their button functions are indistinguishable, forcing a game of Japanese toilet roulette. One such game I thankfully won in a public toilet on Sunday. Not finding a handle, or the flush working automatically I realised with some horror that I would have to randomly press buttons until it flushed, and hope that I didn't end up getting squirted with toilet water. The flush button was not as obvious as it should have been for us newbie Gaijin.
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| Toilet buttons, photo stolen from some other blog |
Do you like how the bidet buttons for men and women show the water squirting at different angles? Hygienic!
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