I was in Okachimachi today and came across a rather unusual combination - a single toilet cubicle with both an old style squat toilet AND a modern style washlet with multiple buttons with various functions... Take your pick... The sign on the wall requested no smoking (fair enough), and no mobile phone use. I am baffled with the latter..
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Olá Cecilia, como vai?
No banheiro contém aquele outro acessório com a finalidade dos homens usar?
Hello Anon,
It was the women's loo... I didn't check out the men's... now that you mention it... I should have. There was no urinal in here, I assume there would have been in the men's.
I think that "no phone" message is aimed at people like you who can't multi-task. Heh heh. Coz why if you had to navigate your way around that squat toilet while talking (typing?!) on a phone, you'd definitely end up with one foot in it.
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This is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.
The two toilets are so close together that you'd have to squat extremely, umm, compactly if you wanted to use the squat toilet.
PS: Maybe the Western one is there to serve as a support/handle/assistance for obaasan who use the squat one and then can't get up again?
It's odd isn't it. I showed Hiro's mother & she'd never seen anything like it either.
I've been thinking about the sign. I wonder if it's because people take longer if they are also catching up on their emailing.
It's in Ameyoko, directly under the train tracks.
Possible explanations - someone misordered and they had two. Someone miscalculated space and there was no room for two. Someone had shares in the loo company / was getting kickbacks on units sold. A compromise solution for an argument between modernists and traditionalists... I should have asked :)
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