5 Japanese Bathroom Rules That Make No Sense to Americans — Like Sharing One Bath
Two Houses by Ken Tsukamoto
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Your evening routine was decided by whoever laid the pipes: https://twohousesbook.com
The bath-and-body part traces the rest — the tub, the nightly order, the toilet in its own room, and the factory that decided all of it.
543 pages, 96 chapters. $47 early-bird, 30-day refund.
I grew up in a Japanese house. I've now lived in America longer than I lived in Japan.
Everyone tells you it comes down to discipline, or cleanliness, or some idea about ritual. That's not it. Japan got delivered a different room, moulded in a factory and installed by the million, and every habit inside it is just what that room makes possible. Nobody picks a bathroom. You move into one.
Five things that look like tradition and are not: the order you wash in, the shared water, the hose running from the tub to the washing machine, why the whole thing happens at night, and the toilet sitting in a room of its own. Then the part underneath, where all five turn out to come from a single object, and that object is a great deal younger than anyone assumes.
I also give the point away in the middle of this one. For one person living alone, which is now the most common household in Japan, the American shower is simply the correct answer and the tub is not.
If you make it to the end, leave one word in the comments: done. And tell me the one thing in your house you assumed was a choice, right up until you looked at where the pipes go.
Chapters
0:00 Tomorrow morning you will do this in the wrong order
1:36 Nobody chooses a bathroom
2:47 Why your tub has to be the sink
5:06 What does it cost to fill your bathtub
6:59 The hose no American is standing close enough to use
8:54 I could see my breath in my mother's hallway
11:06 How many bathrooms does your house have
13:04 Where all five of these actually came from
15:17 Go and look at your bathroom floor
#JapaneseBath #JapaneseHome #JapaneseCulture #LivingInJapan #JapanVsAmerica
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5 Japanese Bathroom Rules That Make No Sense to Americans — Like Sharing One Bath
Two Houses by Ken Tsukamoto
15,829 views
Your evening routine was decided by whoever laid the pipes: https://twohousesbook.com
The bath-and-body part traces the rest — the tub, the nightly order, the toilet in its own room, and the factory that decided all of it.
543 pages, 96 chapters. $47 early-bird, 30-day refund.
I grew up in a Japanese house. I've now lived in America longer than I lived in Japan.
Everyone tells you it comes down to discipline, or cleanliness, or some idea about ritual. That's not it. Japan got delivered a different room, moulded in a factory and installed by the million, and every habit inside it is just what that room makes possible. Nobody picks a bathroom. You move into one.
Five things that look like tradition and are not: the order you wash in, the shared water, the hose running from the tub to the washing machine, why the whole thing happens at night, and the toilet sitting in a room of its own. Then the part underneath, where all five turn out to come from a single object, and that object is a great deal younger than anyone assumes.
I also give the point away in the middle of this one. For one person living alone, which is now the most common household in Japan, the American shower is simply the correct answer and the tub is not.
If you make it to the end, leave one word in the comments: done. And tell me the one thing in your house you assumed was a choice, right up until you looked at where the pipes go.
Chapters
0:00 Tomorrow morning you will do this in the wrong order
1:36 Nobody chooses a bathroom
2:47 Why your tub has to be the sink
5:06 What does it cost to fill your bathtub
6:59 The hose no American is standing close enough to use
8:54 I could see my breath in my mother's hallway
11:06 How many bathrooms does your house have
13:04 Where all five of these actually came from
15:17 Go and look at your bathroom floor
#JapaneseBath #JapaneseHome #JapaneseCulture #LivingInJapan #JapanVsAmerica