{"id":5056,"date":"2020-12-24T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T01:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vhbloglive.wpengine.com\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2020-12-15T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T08:56:29","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-japanese-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/japanese-apartment-life\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-japanese-sinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Need To Know About Japanese Sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Various things in\na Japanese apartment will be different from the rest of the world. Check out\nour article on Japanese sinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living in Japan\ncomes with a learning curve as multiple facets of your general day-to-day\nliving will need to be adjusted. There are many things about your living area\nthat will need to be addressed, from your wall sockets down to your kitchen. One\nhousehold item that will need some getting used to is the typical Japanese\nsink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The average\nJapanese sink has gone through a few changes over time. The majority of the\nchanges have come from becoming more westernized as the years go on. The\naverage sink in a Japanese household will be small and found in the kitchen,\nbathroom, and sometimes near the toilets or on top of them. We will look at\neach room that would typically have a sink and the different ways you will need\nto do cleaning and general upkeep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kitchen<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Your average\nkitchen in Japan will not boast much space. You will have enough room for a\nsingle person to cook a small to a moderate-sized meal. Typical single room\napartments will leave most of the space for living or storage and leave just\nenough room to do light daily cooking. This is true for the stove, counter\nspace, and sink. A kitchen sink in Japan is roughly half the size of a typical\nwestern kitchen sink. The Japanese sink isn’t very wide or deep, and it can\nfill up quickly with water and dirty dishes. This means that there is less room\nto dry your utensils, you will need to buy smaller pots just to fit under the\nsink head, and there is also a low flow from the usual sink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can try to\ncounter some of these problems by buying cutting boards made to fit across the\nsink and allow for more room to prepare food, or it could offer some drying\nareas. A sink in the Japanese kitchen will have an extra feature that Western\ncountries’ sinks do not have. The drain has a plastic filter meant to catch any\nfood or large particle that will go into it. \nIf you don’t clean it often and ensure you get the small nooks and crannies,\nit will begin to smell. The 100-yen stores sell brushes that are meant to clean\nthe small filters. You can also buy special nets that fit inside them. If you\nhave an aversion to getting your hands dirty with rotten food or leftover\ngrease and grime, you can use the sink nets to catch everything before it hits\nthe plastic. When they begin to fill up, you can remove the net and throw it\naway. These are good to make it easier to clean, but they will cost money each\ntime, and there is still a need to clean the original filter to prevent smells\nand grime build-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you have\ntrouble keeping the smell in check after cleaning your sink and filter, there\nare dissolving capsules that you can buy at 100-yen stores that help remove bad\nsmells. They have a few kinds of scents that you can choose from, and you get\nover 10 caps at a time. All you have to do is place a cap in the plastic\nfilter, and it will slowly dissolve over time with water. There are other\ncleanings and deodorizing products that you can buy for your sink, and they can\nbe found at reasonable prices at many stores. You can also get sink head\nattachments to change the flow of the sink to a wide spray. This will help when\ncleaning dishes and quickly filling the tub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bathroom\/Toilet<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Different\napartments will have the toilet and shower room set-up differently. The typical\nJapanese apartment will have the rooms separate from each other. The sink will\nusually be in the shower room, and it will have a small area to hold your\ntoothbrush and other small self-grooming items. The sink in there is like a\nwestern one and doesn’t have a filter inside of it. You will need to buy a\nsnake or some other scrubbing items. It will need regular cleaning and maintenance,\nbut it is close to the western style so, you can do your usual cleaning\nrituals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The toilets in\nJapan can come in many sizes and variations. The traditional Japanese toilets\nare set into the floor and require you to squat over them. There are the\nwestern style toilets have had generally replaced the older versions. Japan has\nmade many advancements in how toilets are made with some of the most advanced\ntoilets on the earth. They can measure heartbeats, warm the seat, have bidets\nin them, and can self-flush. The feature that they all share is a small sink on\ntop of the toilet. These are meant to fill the bowl once you flush. You can use\nit as a handwashing sink once you finish, and it doesn’t take much to clean it.\nThere are air fresheners made specifically for the toilet sinks. They slowly\ndrip the solution as they get water poured on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Extra Sink Areas<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some homes have\nan extra sink in certain areas of apartments or houses. These are meant solely\nfor hand washing. They will be tucked into corners or near the toilet. You will\nonly find these in bigger houses and apartments. They are set up like western\nsinks and only need regular cleaning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are the\nusual sinks you will find in a Japanese house or apartment. They are usually\nthe same as western ones, but they have some unique things that may need to be\ndone. Make sure to check all of the places you will need to clean, and you will\nhave an easier time keeping your house clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Various things in a Japanese apartment will be different from the rest of the world. Check out our article on Japanese sinks. Living in Japan comes with a learning curve as multiple facets of your general day-to-day living will need to be adjusted. There are many things about your living area that will need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japanese-apartment-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}