With space at a premium in Tokyo, a lot of flats have to sacrifice areas like kitchens and bathrooms to offer more living space. And personally these are two areas of a flat I like to be comfortable. I’ve become accustomed to cooking in an area the size of a big sink but there’s one thing I really missed as soon as I arrived in the country - and that was having a proper bath.
While we’re lucky to have been put into flats with western style bathrooms, these are still incredibly small by most standards, with enough space to stand up and have a shower and use the sink. Anything more intricate and you’re banging on the walls. As for the bath, well for a gaijin short of 2 meters let’s just say that it’s nice as a giant foot bath or somewhere to sit, but I can forget all about bathing properly. I did try it once, a few weeks after arriving when I was desperate for something that wasn’t a shower and well being stuck in a plastic tub big enough for me to sit in and hold both legs with my arms and not be able to move isn’t really my idea of relaxing :???: .
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