Everything you need to know about Japanese and Western toilets, explained in one handy sign found in a restroom in Heian-Jingu shrine:
Oddly enough, this particular restroom didn’t even have a Western-style toilet. I guess it was a general-purpose public-service sort of sign.
Heian-Jingu was one of the places we visited on our first trip to Japan but haven’t been back until yesterday. The sakura were spectacular. I think we caught them just past their peak because the pink color was somewhat less saturated than when we saw them in 2007, but that’s just an observation, not a quibble. I took a bunch of photos but may not get around to posting many until after the trip.
Today we’re taking a shinkansen to Kobe to see our friends Mr. and Mrs. Makino. We’re going to go to the platform early so we can watch the trains go to and fro while I drink a hot can of coffee from a vending machine.
