Public Toilets

Before we left Los Angeles, my mom reminded me of an old family friend who visited Japan several years ago. Our friend remarked that the toilets were on the ground, and to use them, one had to squat. When my mom said that might still be so, I scoffed at her, and said that the story was from several years ago.

While the toilet in our apartment is something that I am used to, some of the public toilets in the train stations and in parks are on the ground! Personally, I wouldn’t stand over this toilet to use it, let alone squat over it.