Ever since I put my web site up, I have had requests from lots of visitors for pictures of toilets, but for some reason I have been procrastinating doing it. Well, I have finally gotten around to taking some pictures of public restrooms from both the outside and the inside. These days most houses in Japan have western-style toilets (the ones you sit on). However, in public restrooms, oriental-style toilets (the ones you squat over) are dominant. Those of you who are thinking of coming to Japan (or any other Eastern countries that have toilets like this ), this is what the eastern toilets look like!!! Being a pretty popular tourist spot, Kawagoe city has some public restrooms throughout the city.

Having seen many Japanese offices not computerized (at least compared to his own country) and yet having all the highly sophisticated gadgets for everyday life everywhere, a friend of mine said a couple of years back that Japan is a high-tech country but in an UNimportant way! A prime example of this would probably be the toilets in Japan that bathe the user when they've finished. These days even public restrooms have toilets like this. I took this picture below because I never saw toilets like this while I was in the States. When you flush the toilet, water comes out from a metal pipe (sort of like a faucet ) situated on top of the toilet tank for you to wash your hands and the water is stored in the tank for the next flush. I think this is a clever idea, don't you? One more thing that I have never seen in the States are toilets with electrically heated seats. It's so common here and very nice when the weather is cold

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