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Japanese bathrooms, or "ofuroba," are very different to bathrooms in the West, and in this day and age they also come with a whole host of cool tech. Let’s take a look at a typical modern Japanese bathroom and let the cute little Aika take you through all its awesome characteristics in this fun and informative video.
Aiko is a Canadian-Japanese girl who lived her first seven years in Canada and the past two in Japan, and she uploads videos about everyday life in Japan to her YouTube channel. Check it out below.
Japanese bathing culture is quite different, especially when it comes to onsen and the practice of all bathing together in the nude as a social experience. And now, with modern technological innovations, even bath time at home can be a magical experience. We highly recommend you watch the video, but here’s a summary of the 12 points included.
1. Three people can be using the different facilities at the same time
Both the sink, toilet, and bath are in separate rooms. The sink is usually in a small changing area connected to the bathroom that also has the washing machine, while the toilet is completely separate.
This can be useful for washing pets and small children.
3. You sit down to wash yourself before getting into the bath
Before getting into the bath, you should wash yourself thoroughly. Bathroom accessories include a small stool to sit on as you wash and a bucket with a handle to pour water all over yourself.
Japanese bathrooms are usually wet-rooms, so you can spray the water everywhere with careless abandon.
Except for (occasionally) fancy bath salts and powder, the bath water should be kept clean, so no washing your hair or lathering up in there.
Modern Japanese bathrooms are serious technological wonders. The control panel will have buttons for keeping the bath water at a consistent temperature, as well as a multitude of other functions.
7. & 8. Call for help/Call for service
Other features of the panels can include an emergency button to call for help or a call button so that you can get your long-suffering parent or spouse to bring you a nice glass of tea while you relax.
9. You can control the bath from the kitchen
There will often be a corresponding control panel in the kitchen from which you can control the water temperature and set the bath to fill automatically. You don’t need to keep running back and forth to check that the bath hasn’t overflowed; it’ll stop when it’s done and play a tune to let you know.
Family members will all share the same bath water as the bathtub is used for relaxing, not cleansing.
11. You can reuse the water for laundry
Many Japanese washing machines come with a pump which you can stick into the bath when you’re done to suck up the water and reuse it for washing your clothes. This is especially useful because washing machines often only use cold water, and this way you can wash your laundry with warm water.
Modern, hi-tech bathrooms will have different fan settings which include cold and hot air, so your clothes will dry really quickly if you hang them up in the bathroom and put the fan on.
All of these points can come as a surprise to foreigners staying in a Japanese home for the first time, but you quickly get used to them and find yourself wondering how other people back home can live without the convenience and comfort of a Japanese bathroom.
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Hope she posts a video on the handicap toilets too. They are awesome.
Yes, it's really good to have the toilet and washing areas separate. If fact, where both are combined airborne fecal matter has been shown to accumulate on your toothbrush.
Modern Japanese bathrooms are serious technological wonders. The control panel will have buttons for keeping the bath water at a consistent temperature.
But the way this is achieved is just by continuously replacing the old water with new hot water, it's actually a massive waste of water if you are just letting it sit there. I've met a few Japanese people who mistakenly believe the bathtub is somehow re-heating the existing water.
Oh, not again. More disingenuous 'Isn't Japan unique' nonsense.
About half of the things on the list are in my mother's bathroom and lavatory in the UK. She also has a washlet loo, just in case anyone brings up that old chestnut too.
About half of the things on the list are in my mother's bathroom and lavatory in the UK. She also has a washlet loo, just in case anyone brings up that old chestnut too.
I think washlets are becoming more common all of the place. 10 years ago, you could say it's a unique thing in Japan, but not anymore. The same thing goes for a spray wand. In the States many homes now have a sink wand. However, I do like that you can control the bath from the kitchen, that is a cool feature
These are all thing I have never seen, and they are all neat and make a lot of sense. Especially having the toilet in a separate room - you could soak in the tub without someone having to come in to go!
Both the sink, toilet, and bath are in separate rooms
Unless it's a tiny 1R apartment, then they're all in a room the size of a phone booth.
BTW, how can one use the word "both" in a sentence listing three things?
I've met a few Japanese people who mistakenly believe the bathtub is somehow re-heating the existing water.
Many of them do re-heat the water, mine does. A gas-fired heater outside takes the water from an outlet near the bottom of the tub, heats it and then pumps it in near the top.
Point number 1 is forest for the trees. Canadian homes have 2, 3 or 4 bathrooms. Around one bathroom per bedroom. Japanese homes have a grand total of.....one.
Give me a private facility any day for my morning constitutional. The Canadian ones I use have heat lamps and skylights. And on top of that, the Japanese "unit bath," with all the comfort of an airliner cubicle, is ridiculous. Canada wins hands down.
But the way this is achieved is just by continuously replacing the old water with new hot water, it's actually a massive waste of water if you are just letting it sit there. I've met a few Japanese people who mistakenly believe the bathtub is somehow re-heating the existing water.
Not true. Many Japanese homes use tankless water heaters, and the "unit baths" have a setting that routes the bath water through the Hester and back to the tub.
I've met a few Japanese people who mistakenly believe the bathtub is somehow re-heating the existing water.
It is re-heating to the temperature you set. The amount of water in the tub is also maintained at the level you had set. It would be difficult to maintain the same temperature and amount of water by replacing the water.
Canadian homes have 2, 3 or 4 bathrooms.
Japanese homes have a grand total of.....one.
I have two in a 3 bedroomed hoiuse.
A little too much generalisation there Jeff I think.
Thanks, I had a quick look on the internet and I guess there are actually a few different systems and what you're describing does exist. I live in a new high-rise building where we don't have gas (just IH) and my bathtub certainly doesn't recycle the same water. I've tested this along with two of my neighbours where we put coloured bath salts in and watched the colour completely fade as it 'reheats'. I guess you might live in a house?
Harry - G - No mistake in my bathroom. The same water is reheated to your desired temp promptly.
As Tina said water level and temperature are maintained. Of course I have to pay for the extra gas required for such a "luxury", but in winter my family can have a long bath, each enjoying a constant "hot" soak. It's great.
But what I particularly like about these bathrooms is as mentioned , they are self contained, fairly spacious,(in my case)wet areas, which means no need to worry about splashing walls, floors & ceilings.
The shower cubicle in my parents house in oz just doesn't cut it for me now.
The housing standard in the west is much better than in Japan. One reason is Japan's limited space, another is the Japanese people are not particularly wanting to live in luxury,
You can reuse the water for laundry
This is one of the most disgusting thing about Japan. Do Japanese people think they don't sweat? You are washing your clothes in sweaty oilly water, it is certainly not clean and why I suspect some people stink on the morning train as they clothes smell like sweat socks.
12 awesome features of Japanese bathrooms you won’t find in the West
Many of these are not features. And further, many are not common even here.
We had the water heater installed at my house after moving in. It runs on kerosene and is very efficient and cheap to operate. They wanted to install the temperature control panel in the kitchen. I said no and had them put it by the shower door. Why? Cause if the water is too hot or too cold while taking a shower, you don't want to be going back and forth to the kitchen to adjust it!
The best part about temperature control is that no one gets burned, especially children. The water never comes out scalding unless somebody set it to. And mixing scalding water with cold to get usable warm water has got to be one of the stupidest, most inefficient procedures known to man, not to mention being a complete pain in the butt and waste of time to accomplish. Glad to see the back side of that foolishness. Now the water always comes out at a reasonable, if not perfect temperature, and its so much more efficient for not heating water only to cool it again.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are people who don't want to waste bathwater, but still I don't believe they use bathwater for rinsing, maybe only with detergent, otherwise it does not make sense.
why I suspect some people stink on the morning train as they clothes smell like sweat socks.
I don't think it is because of bathwater.
My bath reheats the same water. Computer does it. Same fragrance added in is still there three days later.
11 really is gross, good idea but bad baked except you semi recycle that water it's ok!
Watching American house-hunting shows, I'm always surprised when people show dislike for having the toilet separate from the rest of the bathroom ("That's just weird," "That makes no sense!" are some comments I've heard). Most of them have probably never heard the word "water closet," from the days when this was standard.
As for washing clothes with bath water, most people use detergent (duh), and do not use bath water for the rinse cycle, which uses fresh cold water. I really don't think it's an issue.
A few points from the comments. Our three bedroom house also has two bathrooms.
Regarding the usage of bath water as laundry water, it's not gross at all. A couple articles of clothing are going to have more dirtiness to them than the bath water. That's why you use soap, and that's why washers have rinse cycles. The idea that people stink because of this is ridiculous.
And finally, I don't know about all baths, but in all the places I've lived, the temperature is maintained by pumping new water into the tub, not by reheating the water in the tub.
yes japan may have a few more features but nearly every home im lived in before Japan has had two bathrooms, neve seen that in Japan, no need to wait for the shower when somebody else is using it in the morning when your in a hurry. and having the whole bathroom get wet just make much more space to clean for mold. the last house i lived in had a shower that was nearly as big as my whole bathroom in japan, it also had two shower heads/hoses so two people can shower together. while japan may have a fw more gadgets newer western bathrooms are much more convenient.
Jeff: My Canadian home only had 1 bathroom for its 4 bedrooms and was small. I had to wait long stretches of time for family members to finish their bath to pee or wait for our water heater tank to have enough for a shower after someone took a bath. I hated it and love my Japanese bathroom.
As for using bath water for the laundry, it's only on the cycles that add soap. On my washing machine you can even choose to only use it for the first time the washing machine is filled with water and the second and final cycle will be fresh water. The final rinse cycle is always fresh water.
Wonder how many Europeans posted here? Like people that live in apartments.
Reusing bath water for washing machine us a good idea as mentioned above Japanese wash themselves BEFORE entering the tub so no sweat, soap, etc in the water.
Granted back home the WC/Toilet is separate but the bathrooms aren't all that much bigger and shower and bath are the same.
As for multiple bathrooms very few IME.
And finally, I don't know about all baths, but in all the places I've lived, the temperature is maintained by pumping new water into the tub, not by reheating the water in the tub.
@Strangerland In my case, I never heard of a tub that did anything but maintain the temp of the same bathwater and I cannot see how any other system could be regarded as efficient in terms of saving water, saving on the water bill, or saving on whatever source of heat one uses. Throwing lukewarm water down the drain while heating cold water to hot and refilling with that...well, even after one day of that you were probably better of just refilling the tub fresh.
Every tub I have seen (old, I know) had a pipe to siphon lukewarm water into the heater, another pipe to pump reheated water back in, and the only way to get water out of the system or the tub was through the drain by pulling the stopper out.
My first apartment in Japan had a bath where you heated the water AFTER you filled up the bath! So a quick shower was out of the question. I know people who still have this system in their house. Add to this the fact that washing machines that can use hot water are almost non-existent and you have a country with some serious plumbing issues! Who cares if the toilet can sing you a song?
In my home it is known as the " Beer me! " button.
Great points about no hot water available for the washing machine. And I will also add to that that the fact that water pipes are usually outdoors up the wall and on the north side (the least sunny side), meaning great potential for frozen pipes in winter. So lets not pretend like Japan is some plumbing paradise.
Further to this, I believe that no hot water in the washing machine may be a cause, a factor, or at least a reason for the persistence of, atopy in this country. I never saw anything like that until coming to Japan. My theories for this are that certain bacteria are not dying in the cold water and are reinfecting the wearer, and that harsh detergents such as borax are not being thoroughly dissolved, which weakens the skin, especially children's skin. Of course this situation is only exasperated as ( I believe) many Japanese housewives pinch pennies by skimping on the rinse cycle.
Even more than that though, I believe that Japanese bathe their children in water that is much too hot! What that accomplishes is throwing off the balance of skin fauna. Basically good bacteria die and bacteria that is only harmless as long as kept in check wind up flourishing and harming the skin. And once the good bacteria is gone is hard to get back except by maybe by extreme amounts of skin contact with others...but, welcome to hugless, kissless Japan!
Interesting to read people's comments. It looks like my bathtub situation is outside of the norm, sorry. I looked up the system that I have and apparently it's somewhat unusual in Japan because all of our hot water is produced centrally. From thier website:
Varme-24 is a central heating and hot-water supply system for apartment blocks. Hot water is produced in a heat source plant in the basement or on the roof of a building. This network system supplies hot water and heating to each family appartment in the building without the need for boilers or fuel in each appartment, making them safer. Hot water is supplied 24 hours a day to each appartment.
it's somewhat unusual in Japan because all of our hot water is produced centrally
M3, it is the norm for other buildings as well not only your place. You can control the temperature of hot water in the washing machine by the same control panel for the bathtub.
Japanese people are not particularly wanting to live in luxury...
This kind of "poor-person's thinking" is worrying.
It is natural and good for people to aspire to better things and a better lifestyle and work towards it.
Aiming high makes the economy work, keeps people in jobs and helps to grow the economy.
If everybody is thinking things like "I don't want betterment, I don't need luxury, I will make do with a poor existence" then it creates a downward cycle that will ultimately wreck the economy.
In any case, the comment is not true, thank goodness.
Look at the housing available today in Japan compared with 40 or even 30 years ago.
Modern mansions (for example) are more spacious, attractively finished and have superior fittings. Japanese people obviously do prefer a more luxurious lifestyle and housing companies are responding to that.
In any case, the comment is not true, thank goodness.
I agree. It was a pretty stupid comment.
12 awesome features of Japanese bathrooms you won’t find in the West
Three people can be using the different facilities at the same time
Yeah, & the other two can still hear you taking a dump cause those narrow, paper-thin walled Japanese houses give nobody any decent "privacy" no matter which of the different facilities yo happen to be in.
You sit down to wash yourself before getting into the bath
If you take showers 95% of the time, this makes absolutely no sense.
You can reuse the water for laundry
Disgusting. All those dead skin cells and oily bodily fluid used to "wash" clothes? No thank you.
& 8. Call for help/Call for service
Why would you need any assistance? "Hey- gimmee nuther' beer!!" -is all that's good for.
Wet rooms are great. So are washlet toilets. As are washing outside the bath, bathing in the same water, and reusing it for laundry.
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