Casey and Sommer's photoblog of Japan trip

I'm enjoying Casey and Sommer's blog of their trip to Japan, which includes photos and videos of claw machines, self driving cars, and a trip to the Railway Museum and Tokyo National Museum.

Japanification

[#1 posted by hokano, June 12, 2009 12:47 PM]

It is, of course, equally important to remember that a giant ashtray is not a toilet. No matter how drunk you are.

[#2 posted by grimc, June 12, 2009 1:26 PM]

Well, Japanese train station authorities, when your public toilets look exactly like your big ashtrays, I don't think you're in any position to complain.

[#3 posted by Jonathan Badger, June 12, 2009 2:15 PM]

No they don't -- the toilet has the stand below and the water filling part to the left...

[#4 posted by El.Kabong, June 12, 2009 2:27 PM]

Judging by the scale, in a train station, I'd mistake both toilets and ashtrays for jacuzzis. Imagine my embarassment.

[#5 posted by vettekaas, June 12, 2009 2:51 PM]

Not to mention the size of the cigarettes! I think fewer people would smoke if cigarettes were larger than people! Or maybe MORE people would smoke. In any case, packs of cigs would be less portable.

[#6 posted by Enormo, June 12, 2009 3:31 PM]

Why does the toilet on the right have no tank or flush handle?

[#7 posted by apoxia, June 12, 2009 3:52 PM]

It took me a while to realise what the man is holding was a giant cigarette and not a giant grater on a stand. I think this is one instance where a more complicated diagram would have been simpler to understand.

[#8 posted by BinaryClock, June 12, 2009 4:52 PM]

The public toilet is not a big ashtray, it is a series of tubes.

Oh, I amuse myself.

[#9 posted by subliminati, June 12, 2009 8:13 PM]

I lived in Japan for a few years and always loved finding new versions of these crazy stick figure, anti-smoking graphics.

Here's a gallery of them. My personal fav was always number 4... the one with the cowboys.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/484968/

[#10 posted by Anonymous, June 13, 2009 12:38 PM]

HEY! that little green guy looks EXACTLY like the little burned black alien guy in the post below - Coincidence???? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!

[#11 posted by mokey, June 13, 2009 9:30 PM]

i lived with a guy who toured japan and had a large collection of stickers that encouraged males to pee sitting down. those stickers must be ubiquitous. any verification?

[#12 posted by Anonymous, June 13, 2009 9:57 PM]

Graffiti on bathroom wall, Hamburg, 1963: "Schmeisst keine Kippen in die Rinne. Ich pinkel euch auch nicht in die Aschenbecher." ("Don't throw butts in the urinal - I don't pee in your ashtrays."

[#13 posted by gem, June 14, 2009 12:05 AM]

that reminds me of something you might find in Passive Aggressive Notes- http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/