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Honestly you had a luxury bidet. Lots of Japan may have a bidet but most I’ve come across are in much worse shape.

ryan_lane 2y ago
Are you making things up? The norm, if there's a bidet, is for it to be button controlled. Even a lot of public toilets have button controlled bidets at this point. Some really old public parks will have squatters, and in the past these bathrooms would also not have had toilet paper (because the assumption is that you'd bring your own tissue paper with you - this is one of the reasons they hand out tissue papers with advertising). But nowadays basically all toilets have paper, and most have nice new bidets.
- coldtea 2y ago
  >Are you making things up? Are you rude? >The norm, if there's a bidet, is for it to be button controlled. Even a lot of public toilets have button controlled bidets at this point Did they say otherwise? Grandparent said "When I was i Japan the toilet in my hotel room had a remote control with 18 buttons." And parent wrote: "Lots of Japan may have a bidet but most I’ve come across are in much worse shape." Not that they don't have buttons.
  - ryan_lane 2y ago
    > Are you rude? Are you? > And parent wrote: "Lots of Japan may have a bidet but most I’ve come across are in much worse shape." > > Not that they don't have buttons. They implied toilets with button controlled bidets are "luxury" toilets, and that most toilets they came across were in bad shape. I'm saying that the norm in a lot of Japan now, for public toilets, is what they called out as being "luxury" toilets. Their experience is so outside of the norm that it's either extremely outdated, or exaggerated to make a point (and the point is related to how things are unsanitary, so it has a tinge of painting Japan as a whole as being unsanitary).
    - treflop 2y ago
      I was just in Japan in April just revisiting Kyoto and Kobe for the 3rd and 2nd time. Then before that I was in Japan in October. In the past few years I’ve been to Tokyo, Kanazawa, Awaji, Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka, Hakone, and a bunch of smaller cities. All took my time. So no, my knowledge is neither outdated nor am I exaggerating anything. Maybe I’m going to all the wrong establishments.

Are you making things up? The norm, if there's a bidet, is for it to be button controlled. Even a lot of public toilets have button controlled bidets at this point. Some really old public parks will have squatters, and in the past these bathrooms would also not have had toilet paper (because the assumption is that you'd bring your own tissue paper with you - this is one of the reasons they hand out tissue papers with advertising). But nowadays basically all toilets have paper, and most have nice new bidets.

coldtea 2y ago
>Are you making things up? Are you rude? >The norm, if there's a bidet, is for it to be button controlled. Even a lot of public toilets have button controlled bidets at this point Did they say otherwise? Grandparent said "When I was i Japan the toilet in my hotel room had a remote control with 18 buttons." And parent wrote: "Lots of Japan may have a bidet but most I’ve come across are in much worse shape." Not that they don't have buttons.
- ryan_lane 2y ago
  > Are you rude? Are you? > And parent wrote: "Lots of Japan may have a bidet but most I’ve come across are in much worse shape." > > Not that they don't have buttons. They implied toilets with button controlled bidets are "luxury" toilets, and that most toilets they came across were in bad shape. I'm saying that the norm in a lot of Japan now, for public toilets, is what they called out as being "luxury" toilets. Their experience is so outside of the norm that it's either extremely outdated, or exaggerated to make a point (and the point is related to how things are unsanitary, so it has a tinge of painting Japan as a whole as being unsanitary).
  - treflop 2y ago
    I was just in Japan in April just revisiting Kyoto and Kobe for the 3rd and 2nd time. Then before that I was in Japan in October. In the past few years I’ve been to Tokyo, Kanazawa, Awaji, Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka, Hakone, and a bunch of smaller cities. All took my time. So no, my knowledge is neither outdated nor am I exaggerating anything. Maybe I’m going to all the wrong establishments.