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These are so good. After you've lived in Japan for a while you go back to (pretty much any) Western country and feel like going back to the middle ages. It feels outright barbaric not to have this level of hygiene.

I guess it's like going to a place which doesn't use toilet paper?



I have Toto bidets installed at home (in the US)... was visiting Japan for a couple weeks last month and was overjoyed (not exaggerating) to see bidets in pretty much every bathroom, even in low-end bars and restaurants. I think I remember exactly one toilet I used that didn't have a bidet.

Then I come back home and go out and about and am disappointed when even nice restaurants don't have them.


Japan also doesn't have trash cans and therefore no paper towels in bathrooms.

I asked and it seems to go back to the sarin gas attacks in the subway years ago.




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