• Eheran@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It makes a ton of sense to make them as small as possible, given how much water it takes to fill them up. Unlike in Japan, we hardly use that water, while they leave them filled and keep using it.

    Imagine always filling a pool just because you want to refresh for 30 minutes and then dumping all that water.

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      5 months ago

      Westerners don’t typically bathe every day, they shower. It’s more of a relaxation occasion here. It doesn’t make sense to keep it filled.

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        Japanese home baths are almost always right next to a shower, and you take a shower before getting in the bathtub to soak. Because you’re clean before using the tub, a family will leave it full until everyone has had a bath. They still empty the tub after everyone has used it though-- it’s not like they keep the same water for days on end.

        It’s a similar concept at bathhouses, where everyone gets in the same baths after showering.

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          Woah we used to do that when I was a kid, my dad would bathe after me. I thought we were just poor but now I guess we were just Japanese

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            5 months ago

            With that phrasing, I don’t know if you’re confirming your nationality or just discovering it. I’m excited for you either way

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              That’s very nice of you. But I wasn’t really serious, according to myheritage.com.I am 1% Japanese. If it counts, half of my family comes from an island north of Japan o_o

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          They also have covers for the bathtubs to help keep the water warm while no one is in it. At least, the old style rectangular ones do.

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          5 months ago

          I thought taking shower before bath was universal thing. Who are these nasty people that bathe in their own filth?

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      5 months ago

      I remember staying at this wonderful couple’s BnB in Northern Michigan and they had a claw-foot standing bathtub, that thing was incredible. So spacious

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        5 months ago

        At the Insight Meditation Center in Barre, MA they have an enormous claw tub. I was able to straighten my entire body inside it, and he completely underwater.