stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP (Don Stanwyck) (06/25/84)
In Japan, many of the train station restrooms are co-ed/multi-user. Frequently there is a room with no door, just off the main hall, with a multi-person urinal just inside on one wall, sinks to the back on the same wall (if present at all), and stalls (with or without doors) on the other wall. E.G. ____________________________________________________ | ( urinal ) oo oo oo oo | | (_____________________) (__) (__) (__) (__)| | | | __ | __ | __ | __ | __ | | (__> | (__> | (__> | (__> | (__> | |__________|_________|_________|_________|_________| They also used to have a great number of co-ed bathing facilities. Due to Western pressure, they have converted many of these to separate bathing areas - they put an 18-inch high fence down between the areas to give each side a sense of privacy. (Try the new hotel beside the Misawa-shi railway station for an example of the latter.) Other places they have actually made separate areas. The point is that they get along fine with co-ed facilities, having decided that privacy is a state of mind. (I mean, with just paper think walls between the bedrooms, you are soon aware that privacy is just a state of mind, because every move is heard, and since there are frequently small holes in the paper in some of the poorer ryo-kans (inns), every move might be seen.) -- ________ ( ) Don Stanwyck @( o o )@ 312-979-3062 ( || ) Cornet-367-3062 ( \__/ ) ihnp4!ihuxr!stanwyck (______) Bell Labs @ Naperville, IL