One of the best frickin videos when travelling to Japan. I haven't seen anyone else cover this topic. Arigatou gozaimasu!! Joe. Joe! Joe!! JOE!! JOE!!! 🚽💩🧻🪠‼️ 🤣🤣🤣
secret tip.during late night when the train stations & shopping centers are closed u can find open toilets at gaming & arcade stations very convenient for guys like me who likes to go sightseeing at night.most of the places in the tokyo metro have gaming & arcade centers that are open 24/7.
Hi Joe, this was a well needed and great topic, especially when your up there in age and just thinking about the toilet sets the alarms off in my head. Thank you
I have IBS, and I felt much more relaxed during my visits to Japan because there are so many options available for toilets and washrooms. It really helped ease my worries and made traveling there a lot more comfortable.
It reminded me how absolutely awful it is everywhere else, even in the US most big box stores have a restroom (at least target and walmart and stuff) but where I'm from (NL) its an absolute nightmare.
Excellent work @Tokyo Joe :) Loving the super useful and very professional content as I have been researching for a future trip in a few months. More vids please.
Fun little Japanese fact: For the voice activated toilet at 5:26, the command to play music is "音楽を流して" (ongaku o nagashite) which is shown to be "Play music" in English. Although, the verb 流す (nagasu) is usually translated as "to pour, to drain." This is because in Japanese it's a metaphor that means to let the music flow like a river. So a more litteral translation would be "Let the music flow," and the exact meaning is "Pour the music." I just thought that was an interesting cultural difference in how the Japanese see the idea of music.
My apology if you did not receive my previous reply. Thank you for watching and for your kind comments! I'm really glad if this video is/was helpful to you.
Thank you so much for watching, subscribing, and for your thoughtful comment! I like to make videos that are helpful, and I believe that subs will catch up later. More videos coming soon!
Thank you, Joe, for your video summarizing the availability of toilets in Tokyo. My family and I will be visiting Tokyo around the Xmas. The tips you gave in the video would be helpful to my family especially me.
Thanks Joe. Looking for more Japan youtubers. And found you. Keep creating more content! If you have walk through or virtual tour as well would be awesome 👌
While spending 2 weeks in Tokyo, we mainly used shopping mall, restaurant, and Mc Donald's restrooms. Most were very clean. A couple were incredibly small narrow spaces for me at 185 cm (6'1") height. I only encountered a Japanese-style toilet once, and it was the only option, but I can't remember where it was. It may have been at a temple or in an older building. Our Hotel was very near Ikebukero station, so many times we just used the hotel bathroom, but other than that, shopping malls and restaurants are the best bet if you're mostly out shopping and eating like we were.
Thank you for watching and for subscribing! Please note that public restrooms in cities are often occupied, so make sure that you have some time allowance🙂
Just incidentally - in Thailand I find toilets in shopping malls to be the most reliably accessible, and are usually impeccably clean. I have been told, however, that there are usually good facilities at most Buddhist temples (which are everywhere).
Hi Joe, thank you for the info. It is very useful for someone like me who go to the toilet often. I have a question and hope you can help - are there toilets at Gai (Shopping Arcade) in Tokyo, Osaka and the major cities? I can't find toilets there. 😀
Thank you too for watching! Yes, I need to go to the toilet often as well, and I can understand how you feel. Shopping arcades are called "Shoten Gai", and some have public restrooms around the corner, and some have small parks with public restrooms. Many won't have any public toilet, but they should have convenience stores where you can give it a try.
We're family of 4 visited japan first time, we used toilet in a building in front of Tsukiji market we have to insert 100¥ coin in order to open the door. ❤from Cambodia
Thanks for watching! Many public restrooms have hi-tech bidet toilets that doesn't come with a dryer. Devices with drying function are more expensive, and I believe that's the reason why. Its typical to spray first and then wipe with toilet papers, so I don't need to use the drying function anyway
How about a video on how to find a trash can?😁 On my 1st trip, I went crazy in the department store and bought over $50 of food. Couldn't find a place to eat it. So I ate it standing. Then I had a bag of trash with no place to throw it. Finally, I found the worlds smallest trash can. It would hold only one of my empty plastic food containers. I had a grocery sized plastic bag full of waste. 😂
Didn't they have a rubbish bin / trash can - in the toilets of that department store ? Surely, after having that big meal you had to visit them...😂 You were standing ? I once sat on the toilet doing that - desperate measure for desperate times - disgusting but no one saw me and it was quite practical. 😂
Thank you for watching! Yes, the reason why you cannot find trash cans in urban areas is due to anti-terrorism measure. There was a case when plastic bags with poison gas were planted inside trash cans at metro stations... So we are used to taking trash back home.
Go to a dept store, a railway station etc, not that hard to find a toilet.. Public toilets are also easy to find, but most that I found are not really that clean.
There is no problem finding restrooms in Japan. We all need to know where to find GARBAGE CANS in Japan. For there are no visible Garbage Cans in public places in Japan.
The reason why you don’t see many trash cans is due to anti-terrorism measures. There were nerve gas planted inside bins at metro stations. So some trash cans that you find today are see through
wow your English accent is like a black gentleman from Georgia USA haha. It sounds really warm and reassuring 😊
Thank you for watching and for your kind compliment!
This!!! I had to make sure I heard that he was born and raised in Japan, like let me play that part again 😂
What a relief ! ( pun intended). I’m always worried about not being able to find public toilets . Very very useful video , Joe . Thank you 👍😘
Thank you too for watching! I am really glad if you have found my video to be useful.
this channel is a hidden gem omg !!
OMG what a wonderful comment! Hidden gem is such a compliment. Thank you for watching!
Now this is important info that typically you wouldn’t think of till you got there. We all gotta go sometime!😊
Thank you, Tokyo Joe.
Thank you too for watching!
One of the best frickin videos when travelling to Japan.
I haven't seen anyone else cover this topic.
Arigatou gozaimasu!!
Joe. Joe! Joe!! JOE!! JOE!!!
🚽💩🧻🪠‼️
🤣🤣🤣
Arigato for watching and for your great comment that I very much appreciate!
secret tip.during late night when the train stations & shopping centers are closed u can find open toilets at gaming & arcade stations very convenient for guys like me who likes to go sightseeing at night.most of the places in the tokyo metro have gaming & arcade centers that are open 24/7.
Oh, sweet!
Great info.
Arigatou gozaimasu!
Arigato for watching!
Joe, you are a hero for this.... thank you .
Thank you too for watching, and for your kind comment which I appreciate!
Very helpful to those planning a trip to Japan..Thank you so much for this great information.🙏More videos about the weather in October,please.
thank you Tokyo Joe ... more content please ... !
Thank you too for watching. My new video is coming up very soon!
Thank you Joe! As someone who is always looking for a bathroom I appreciate this video so very much! You are very kind - ♥️
Thank you too for watching and for your generous comment. Me too, I'm constantly searching for restrooms...
Hi Joe, this was a well needed and great topic, especially when your up there in age and just thinking about the toilet sets the alarms off in my head. Thank you
Thank you too for watching and for your kind comments. Me too, I'm constantly searching for restrooms...
Very helpful tips! Your English accent is very good! Thank you for sharing!❤
Beautiful presentation 🎉
Thank you for watching, and for your warm comment!
Very good and informative video for tourists as well as wheelchair persons. Thsnks.
Thank you too for watching! I'm glad that you found the video informative.
I have IBS, and I felt much more relaxed during my visits to Japan because there are so many options available for toilets and washrooms. It really helped ease my worries and made traveling there a lot more comfortable.
I'm glad to hear that you were able to find restrooms!
It reminded me how absolutely awful it is everywhere else, even in the US most big box stores have a restroom (at least target and walmart and stuff) but where I'm from (NL) its an absolute nightmare.
Thank you for making this.
Thank you too for watching!
A very professional and comprehensive video!!!
Thank you so much for watching, and for your kind comment!!!
Excellent work @Tokyo Joe :) Loving the super useful and very professional content as I have been researching for a future trip in a few months. More vids please.
Thank you for watching and for your thoughtful comments. I hope you have a wonderful time in Japan! More videos coming soon
Fun little Japanese fact:
For the voice activated toilet at 5:26, the command to play music is "音楽を流して" (ongaku o nagashite) which is shown to be "Play music" in English. Although, the verb 流す (nagasu) is usually translated as "to pour, to drain." This is because in Japanese it's a metaphor that means to let the music flow like a river. So a more litteral translation would be "Let the music flow," and the exact meaning is "Pour the music." I just thought that was an interesting cultural difference in how the Japanese see the idea of music.
Very interesting! Thanks for watching
Tks for your video! Very helpful for me. Keep up the great work Joe 💪💪💪
Thank you too for watching! I'm glad that the video is helpful to you
Thanks for making this a normal topic to talk about! Ive found japan to be a heaven for me being able to find a toilet relatively easily
Thank you too for watching!
Saved to my Japan trip planning list! Thanks Tokyo Joe! It's funny how a "not so clean" example would be fairly clean here in the US
Thank you too for watching and for your kind comment. Yes I agree that its quite difficult to find filthy toilets here
Doing the Lord's work.
Thank you for watching!
You are very helpful, Joe. Please do more contents. Thank you for the very useful tips. 🙏
Thank you so much for watching, and for your encouraging comments. Yes, more contents coming soon!
A very helpful video on a delicate subject. When Travelling overseas finding a toilet and how the system works can be a journey of discovery.
My apology if you did not receive my previous reply. Thank you for watching and for your kind comments! I'm really glad if this video is/was helpful to you.
Thank you so much Joe! This is very informative🙏🙏🙏
Thank you too for watching! I'm glad that you found the video informative🙏🙏🙏
Wow! Thanks for the super helpful information! Love your posts especially for those first timers to Japan like me! Keep posting.
Wow! Thank you for watching and for your kind and encouraging comment. My new video is coming out very soon!
Tokyo Joe you deserve more subs! your videos are very informative and your voice is so clear and soothing
Thank you so much for watching, subscribing, and for your thoughtful comment! I like to make videos that are helpful, and I believe that subs will catch up later. More videos coming soon!
Thank you, Joe, for your video summarizing the availability of toilets in Tokyo. My family and I will be visiting Tokyo around the Xmas. The tips you gave in the video would be helpful to my family especially me.
Thank you too for watching and for your kind comments! I wish you and your family have a wonderful time in Japan!
As someone with ibs this was very reassuring that I won't have to many problems when I finally go to Japan
Thank you for watching! I'm glad if this video is helpful to you. I hope you have a wonderful time when you come to Japan
For IBS, try cabbage soup. Honestly, I started eating it over a year ago and haven’t had an attack since.
Thanks Joe. Looking for more Japan youtubers. And found you. Keep creating more content! If you have walk through or virtual tour as well would be awesome 👌
Thank you too for watching! More videos coming soon. If you haven't watched yet, please check out "The Tokyo Toilet Virtual Tour"
Arigato-Thank you Tokyo Joe's!🙏👍
Arigato as well for watching!
Great blog! Very useful - thank you
Thank you too for watching, and for your kind comment!
While spending 2 weeks in Tokyo, we mainly used shopping mall, restaurant, and Mc Donald's restrooms. Most were very clean. A couple were incredibly small narrow spaces for me at 185 cm (6'1") height. I only encountered a Japanese-style toilet once, and it was the only option, but I can't remember where it was. It may have been at a temple or in an older building. Our Hotel was very near Ikebukero station, so many times we just used the hotel bathroom, but other than that, shopping malls and restaurants are the best bet if you're mostly out shopping and eating like we were.
Saves you from running back to the hotel Tokyo Joe you got got me Subbed Sup2 from Sydney Australia 🇯🇵
Thank you for watching and for subscribing! Please note that public restrooms in cities are often occupied, so make sure that you have some time allowance🙂
Excellent!
Thank you for watching!
Excellent video,thank you
Thank you too for watching, and for your kind comment!
Really helpful thanks
Thank you too for watching! I'm happy that you found the video helpful.
Hi Joe very helpful video you are way ahead with toilets in Japan compared with the U K some of ours charge for the use of,
All the best Alec.
Thank you Alec for watching and for your kind comment. I go to the department stores for restrooms when I'm in London.
thanks for the info👍🏼❤️
Thank you too for watching!
I’d also add pachinko parlors as a toilet resource. Their toilets are also clean and open to public. The problem is they are often not smoke free.
Great tips! also im not a native english speaker, but could catch everything even without the sub. Thx Joe!
Thank you too for watching! I'm glad that you were able to understand my English
Just incidentally - in Thailand I find toilets in shopping malls to be the most reliably accessible, and are usually impeccably clean. I have been told, however, that there are usually good facilities at most Buddhist temples (which are everywhere).
Excellent tutorial! Aloha from Hawaii.
Mahalo from Tokyo!
Even toilets in Japan are interesting. I need to visit this country
Yes, please visit Japan! I’m sure that it won`t let you down.
Thank you very much , appreciate very much❤.
Thank you too for watching, I appreciate very much as well!
Lovely voice! You’re a singer, I hope!
Thank you for watching and for your warm comment! Yes I love to sing!
@ thought so! It takes one to know one! 😊
you are like a native speaker. English is very good.
Thank you for watching, and for your kind compliment!
A pachingko place literally saved me from shitting on my shorts, and theyre open well later in the night when usual malls and shops are already closed
Hi Joe, thank you for the info. It is very useful for someone like me who go to the toilet often. I have a question and hope you can help - are there toilets at Gai (Shopping Arcade) in Tokyo, Osaka and the major cities? I can't find toilets there. 😀
Thank you too for watching! Yes, I need to go to the toilet often as well, and I can understand how you feel. Shopping arcades are called "Shoten Gai", and some have public restrooms around the corner, and some have small parks with public restrooms. Many won't have any public toilet, but they should have convenience stores where you can give it a try.
In my travels it has been find a McDonald’s and yes I buy a burger.
That's great! It's important to remind ourselves that toilets are for customers
We're family of 4 visited japan first time, we used toilet in a building in front of Tsukiji market we have to insert 100¥ coin in order to open the door. ❤from Cambodia
Yes, it's rare, but there are pay toilets now days partly due to over tourism...
In San Francisco, LA Chiraq, and NY. use the sidewalks
Thaaaanksss
Thank you too for watching!
Restrooms are important, especially after eating as much Yakiniku as possible haha
What is the drying feature like on the hi-tech toilets?
Thanks for watching! Many public restrooms have hi-tech bidet toilets that doesn't come with a dryer. Devices with drying function are more expensive, and I believe that's the reason why. Its typical to spray first and then wipe with toilet papers, so I don't need to use the drying function anyway
@@TokyoJoeShow That makes sense. I would probably choose your option too.
How about a video on how to find a trash can?😁 On my 1st trip, I went crazy in the department store and bought over $50 of food. Couldn't find a place to eat it. So I ate it standing. Then I had a bag of trash with no place to throw it. Finally, I found the worlds smallest trash can. It would hold only one of my empty plastic food containers. I had a grocery sized plastic bag full of waste. 😂
Didn't they have a rubbish bin / trash can - in the toilets of that department store ?
Surely, after having that big meal you had to visit them...😂
You were standing ?
I once sat on the toilet doing that - desperate measure for desperate times - disgusting but no one saw me and it was quite practical. 😂
Thank you for watching! Yes, the reason why you cannot find trash cans in urban areas is due to anti-terrorism measure. There was a case when plastic bags with poison gas were planted inside trash cans at metro stations... So we are used to taking trash back home.
Were you ever an announcer on J-Wave?
Never on J-Wave...
3rd floor of any department store is where you'll find the men's toilet. 2nd floor for women...and chances are they'll be hospital clean.
Surprised no one's compared these washrooms to those located in cities in Canada and the US (yet)
FINALLY! I found someone who addresses the "dragon" in the room. Where to go.
Thank you for watching, and your generous comment.
Don’t know why I feel that if he busts out some rnb tunes it’ll be so smooth 😅 very smooth voice
Thank you so much for your nice comment. Yes, I used to DJ at a disco (35 years ago...) playing rnb
very nice vioce👍❤️
Thank you for your compliment!
Joeさん、東京生まれの東京育ちで その英語ですか？ 凄い！
ありがとうございます！
英語難しいですね😓
We found a pay to use toilet at Mt. Fuji. It was a 100yen.
Thank you for sharing your info. Yes, I am starting to find pay toilets too, especially where there are many tourists.
お手洗い/トイレはどこにありますか ？(otearai/toire wa doko ni arimasuka?)
Where is there a restroom/toilet?
Go to a dept store, a railway station etc, not that hard to find a toilet.. Public toilets are also easy to find, but most that I found are not really that clean.
As a joke, do one about public bathrooms in NYC. As a joke...
Thank you for watching! I love NY!
Hi, I don't have problem finding restrooms while in Japan, but I did have a problem finding TRASH CAN.
Trash cans were removed to avoid terrorism. There were bomb scares before...
There is no problem finding restrooms in Japan.
We all need to know where to find GARBAGE CANS in Japan.
For there are no visible Garbage Cans in public places in Japan.
The reason why you don’t see many trash cans is due to anti-terrorism measures. There were nerve gas planted inside bins at metro stations.
So some trash cans that you find today are see through
Now I realise the best selfie spots in Japan are... toilets.
Yes, they're quite photogenic! Thanks for watching!
Funny enough, Portugal has this exact same unwritten rule about eating whiile walking
Thank you for watching!
😂 Well… I guess I used the Japanese toilet backwards.
No problem! You'll be fine the next time
Don’t go in a pubic restroom after Chinese tourists, you will thank me later😂
Funny but what scare me the most before my visit to Japan in few days are how to use the high tech toilet
Thank you very much, Joe . Your video is helpful and informative.
Thank you too for watching, and for your thoughtful comment!