We got into our house this week! This is all of our luggage; it was so cumbersome!
G has to duck a little to walk in our toilet rooms and duck even more to go into our tatami rooms.
The toilet room. That is a sink spigot in the middle. It runs automatically when you flush. We also have bidets on both toilets.
Our bath is completely separate from the toilets. In a traditional Japanese bath you sit on a stool and wash yourself first, rinse, then soak in the tub. Everyone shares the same bath water, as you are clean when you use it, so the thing standing up in the tub is the bath cover. The rod we are hanging our towels on can also be used for clothes. There is a control outside the bath that can be used to dry clothes!
The panel in the wall on the right turns the hot water on and off. There is also one in the kitchen.
This is our dishwasher. It holds four of everything, but only two of the mugs when everything is in it, but that's OK because it fits all of our glasses. We have to wash dishes after every meal since we only have one of everything for each person! It's not enough dishes to fill the washer, though, so we have been doing it by hand.
Our washing machine is also a dryer. The wash cycle takes less than an hour, but, the dry cycle takes about THREE HOURS! Lots of Japanese people hang dry their clothes. I tried it with one of our loads of laundry, but it rained, so some of it was really wet!
This is one of our traditional tatami rooms. Tatami refers to the flooring. It is straw weaved together to make mats. Tatami are a standard size and they rooms can even be measured by the number of mats!
This is our clothes line. I'll be using it to dry clothes often.
The best part about our backyard is this traditional broom! How cool is that?!
We still have many orgazational things to get and we are going to buy futons to sleep on. I'll update as we settle in more.
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