It’s no longer odd to see signs in heavy tourist areas begging people not to use a Western toilet like a squat toilet or exhorting clueless foreigners not to flush anything but toilet paper, but WHAT THE HECKIN’ HECK is that middle one in the bottom row?
Slicing up sushi in this toilet stall near the Hakone Shrine is apparently a big no-no (OK, can I just squeal EWWWW for a moment here?) but why did they feel the need to forbid such an unlikely activity?
Turns out, this one isn’t aimed at tourists! There’s a popular fishing spot near this bathroom, and more than one local angler has apparently had the bright idea of flushing the innards after filleting his catch instead of packing them back home to stink up his own trash.
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We stay at a motel in Fort Bragg where there are signs by the trash bins telling fishing people to not put fish parts in the trash. So far no signs in the bathrooms….