How Times Have Changed!
One rule of thumb I've long gone by (and confirmed by experience) is that In Japan one should always carry some toilet paper since public restrooms did not provide it. In fact, I think the backpack I use in Japan probably still has a packet of tissues in it? 😏
That must have changed while I wasn't looking, as this debate in Nagoya suggests.
. . . one wouldn’t have to have lived so long in Japan to remember the time when a lot of public toilets all across the country didn’t have paper. Instead, you were supposed to carry your own (the packs of “pocket tissue” with ads stuffed inside that companies hand out for free on the streets of Japan were handy candidates) or buy a pack from the vending machine in restrooms which were equipped with one. In fact, it wasn’t until this decade that Osaka began righting the wrong of paperless facilities in earnest. So, Nagoya really isn’t that far behind other major cities in this regard.
Travel in Japan has gotten so much easier than we old timers had it in the old days. Come to think of it, on our last trip there, we saw very few young girls if any handing out toilet paper packets with advertising on the street, when in the past there would be several at each corner.
Toilet paper, no-smoking rooms and restaurants, wifi, navigation and translation apps, businesses accepting credit cards, more ATMs accepting our foreign credit cards, ice water and napkins in restaurants, actually talking on cell phones . . . !
What next, paper towels?
Travel in Japan just gets easier and better.
[link, news, custom, hmm, JT]
https://soranews24.com/2018/09/27/nagoya-city-council-debates-is-toilet-paper-really-needed-in-public-restrooms/
One rule of thumb I've long gone by (and confirmed by experience) is that In Japan one should always carry some toilet paper since public restrooms did not provide it. In fact, I think the backpack I use in Japan probably still has a packet of tissues in it? 😏
That must have changed while I wasn't looking, as this debate in Nagoya suggests.
. . . one wouldn’t have to have lived so long in Japan to remember the time when a lot of public toilets all across the country didn’t have paper. Instead, you were supposed to carry your own (the packs of “pocket tissue” with ads stuffed inside that companies hand out for free on the streets of Japan were handy candidates) or buy a pack from the vending machine in restrooms which were equipped with one. In fact, it wasn’t until this decade that Osaka began righting the wrong of paperless facilities in earnest. So, Nagoya really isn’t that far behind other major cities in this regard.
Travel in Japan has gotten so much easier than we old timers had it in the old days. Come to think of it, on our last trip there, we saw very few young girls if any handing out toilet paper packets with advertising on the street, when in the past there would be several at each corner.
Toilet paper, no-smoking rooms and restaurants, wifi, navigation and translation apps, businesses accepting credit cards, more ATMs accepting our foreign credit cards, ice water and napkins in restaurants, actually talking on cell phones . . . !
What next, paper towels?
Travel in Japan just gets easier and better.
[link, news, custom, hmm, JT]
https://soranews24.com/2018/09/27/nagoya-city-council-debates-is-toilet-paper-really-needed-in-public-restrooms/
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