Hooray wow!

Is this a modern japanese bathroom?

So fresh, so clean, so nice.

The peak of technology so many fun things that you least expect from a bathroom and also it's a clean, basically.

I would love to give you a tour of the bathroom but I want to tell you how I have to clean everything and most of it is really good and really chill.

But there was one thing, there's one particular thing that is insane to me.

Also I remember Rachel and june came out with a video about this many years ago but they didn't really touch on the particular thing that I have in my bathroom.

First off, let's do a little bit of a tour before we get down and dirty with the cleaning.

So a good setup for a japanese bathroom is things are separate.

So you have the washroom, you have the toilet that's separate and then you have the bathroom or also known as the bathroom is literally the bathroom, the room with the bath and the shower as you can see right here we have the washing machine straight up.

So the washing machine is usually in the bathroom.

That was my last place.

My washing machine was on the balcony.

So I don't know if there's any really any rules, they're sticking by here.

So come on in everybody Welcome.

Welcome mind your step.

So once you walk in and you have the mirror.

Also, I'm gonna go really quick through the tour because if you've seen my videos before, you've seen all this stuff.

So I just want to show you very quickly.

This is where the sink is also, it's very cold in here.

So I have a tiny heater underneath the sink that I plug in when I brush my teeth and get ready for bed, but it's a really small room so it heats up really fast and it's nice to have my feet nice and toasty.

This is just the sink, it's very straightforward, very normal, you just wipe it down and clean it.

There is like a little hair catch thing underneath the plug, but I don't want to pull it was really nasty, you will see some nasty stuff soon, don't worry, I don't want to, I don't want to put you in too deep as we're just starting.

But you pull that out, there's a little thing that catches the hair, you take the hair up nice and clean, okay, You come over here, so this is a japanese toilet already wash lit as we call it cleaning.

It's pretty straightforward, it's just like, you know, wipe it all down clean the inside.

I got a little thing here in the toilet cleaning stuff, but also because there's the washer thing, there's a panel here, there's a panel right here and if you need to clean the nozzle that comes out, you can click Nostradamus orgy and here it comes, Hi baby and then you can, and then you can clean it however you so wish and then you just hands up when you're done.

You also because you can wash your hands up here.

You also clean this area.

And if you need running water, you just flush the toilet and the water will come down from the top, see where your hands here.

Or you can wash your hands at the sink.

You've got so many choices.

It's a, it's a luxurious life.

Everything here is really straightforward.

There's nothing really special with cleaning.

Unless I don't know about something.

If anybody knows if there's anything I need to do other than empty out this nasty tray with all the lint, let me know.

Okay, and now we go into the main area of concern.

This is hello, this is my office door.

And yes, if you have not seen before.

The doorway is incredibly small.

I am five ft 7, 170 centimeters and this is, yeah, this is the height.

This is the only thing I've ever hit my head on.

I hit my head three times now and luckily it's pretty soft so it's not, it's not too bad.

But yeah, every time I take a shower, I'm like little grambling hunch getting in here and then I come out gremlin hunch Once again, mhm If I squat down, it's like my assets like in the mirror.

Welcome to my bathroom.

So an orphan or is like a wet room.

So all of this gets wet in here, The walls, the floor, tiny chair, little kevin over here.

First of all, just quickly mentioned, kevin kevin is a Hinoki stool, which gives us a nice scent.

It's very nice, but when he gets wet he needs to dry out.

Usually you can have like a plastic stool in here.

But if it's wood, I usually hang them up right here to dry out or I will take him outside and put him on the balcony to keep him dry because yeah, the wood can get moldy very easily and there's other stuff that they do, but that's basically it for most bathrooms in Japan will have a fan and they're actually really good.

You can use the bathroom as a place to dry your clothes just like a clothing rack and you can, you can hang it up and on a rainy day it will dry your clothes for you.

Mine doesn't do that, which is fine.

I made the sacrifice because everything about this apartment was good except for the door heights and the lack of fan.

I instead have a little window.

So to dry things, I just practicing the window, let's move through and then close it up when I'm taking a shower or I can have it open, which is really nice when I'm taking a bath because it's like cold air coming in and it's hot bath.

Cold air, very nice.

Basic cleaning when I have a shower.

I legitimately every time I take this and do most of the walls, they do the mirror, I do the door and I just keep everything as dry as I possibly can for when I open the window, this stops the water stains happening everywhere.

And I used to do this in Australia, like we had a glass shower.

So every time we would use one of these squeegee squeegee the shower.

So yeah, every time I take a shower I finish and then I'm like also of course, one of the wonderful things if you don't know about japanese bath is the self heating bath and the timed bath.

So you can turn turn on the hot water and then the lady will talk to you and run a bath for you if you time it or you can just say run a bath for me now, you can fill it up to whatever height you want, whatever temperature you want.

And it's all automatic.

Oh and it reheats itself if it gets too cold or if you want to keep the bath water and use it the next day, it will reheat the next day.

So yeah, and also bathwater here is I guess a lot cleaner than it would be overseas depending on what your method is because here you shower and then you use the bath so you're as clean as possible before you get in the bath just like a onsen or hot spring.

So for the mirror they actually sell this liquid stuff.

You probably, I don't know, I've never used overseas, but you cover the, you cook the mirror in it and then after that, if you went the mirror, it doesn't fog up.

So I guess it helps keep the mirror clean.

But also if you want to look at yourself while you shower, although it is confronting every time I'm like the angle is never great for mine.

I'm always just standing there like that's me very close up.

It's like being going to change a very small change room when you try on something and your legs just kind of look like like down there.

So it depends if you want the mirror to fog up or not.

I like to keep it unplugged because then it's easier to clean for me.

Put this stuff on the mirror and it stops it from fogging up.

If you cut it with water before you shout.

So that's the general rundown.

Now we get to the nitty gritty welcome to my bathtub.

There's this drain cover here.

I don't know if you ever saw in my first tiny apartment, I didn't realize that I was like, oh the water just goes down this crack in the wall and it's all fine, but you can remove it and then there's a catcher a net to catch all of the gunk.

I haven't actually clean mine in a hot second.

Someone's gonna be gross.

I just take the drain cover.

Oh it's nasty.

It's gross.

What a conditional little hair.

We're gonna get started on that.

But first of all, the side of the bath needs to come off now.

Not all japanese baths do this, but some of them do and some of them are built better than others.

Let's go.

So the bath comes off, okay, we'll take this out here and prop it up.

So welcome to hell.

This is underneath the bath.

Now the water when you've done with the bath, it will flow underneath the bath.

This whole area under the bath is able to get wet, water can go all up into the corners underneath it.

Uh, and it is impossible to rage.

I'll bring you guys down closer, but I can try and get every corner, but it's not possible.

You can't scrub everywhere gradually.

Over time I was like, I can't clean under the bath.

And I tried looking up tutorials and it was just like nothing mentioned cleaning underneath the bath and I was like, I can't get to the back, I can't really clean in there and I realized it was getting a bit gross.

I checked a little while ago and the whole bottom of it was covered in this black slime.

I was like, oh my God, but I did find something that worked.

So I'm going to show you that today if you also have this problem of not being able to clean underneath your incredibly weirdly built in small japanese bathtub.

So let me let me guide you through it.

All right, let me go get my equipment that I need for this and I will be right back.

I got my equipment.

I have so a plastic bag, some scrubby things, A scrubby toothbrush.

Where's my toothbrush?

You can have it with me.

Ah Yeah, well, scrubby scrubby toothbrush, some bleach and a glove because I can't find the other one.

The first step is the catching net.

So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna fill this up with hot water and soap as you can see if there's too much hair in it, which for me, I lose a lot of hair so my hair clogs it up all the time.

Okay, so this drain system, this is going to be a tutorial.

This drain system, you unscrew it, there's gonna be multiple layers to your drain system.

If you live in Japan, you're gonna have the top layer.

This is also the same for kitchens.

So we have the top layer and then you have the second layer and then it goes straight down into the pipes.

I love this from a tutorial.

This is the official way to clean this.

You would think there would be a different way to clean it, but this is the way it goes.

So you get a plastic bag because there's no plug, you can't plug it off, You get a plastic bag, shove it on in there.

And then we're gonna, we're gonna fill that plastic bag with water.

Now that plastic bag is the plug because it's it's molded itself to And I guess this is good if you ever need a plug in, you don't have one.

I just got a plastic bag, fill it with water.

I'm just gonna tie it up.

I'm going to insert some footage right now with me cleaning this the last time when all of the black slime started eventually moving.

So yeah, just a warning for that.

This is there's gonna be some gross stuff in this video.

Here it is, jesus christ.

Oh my God, come on, man.

Mhm.

Yeah.

So you take some bleach.

I'm using oxy clean.

I don't know if this is the right kind but it worked last time.

So I'm just gonna do it.

So I'm just gonna shove it in there.

I'm gonna liberally apply it because I tried the first time I did it.

I tried vinegar because I didn't have bleach at that point.

Did not work.

Did absolutely nothing.

So, And now we're going to fill it up and push the bleach all around with, with the hose.

Here we go it all up in the crags and we wanted to start filling up underneath.

Mm hmm, mm hmm.

Okay.

So as you can tell the level is high in the water and I just have to leave that for a while because there's bleach.

Now I'm going to open the window, so I'm going to open the window, close this door and I'm going to work on these in the other room.

Okay.

So now we're going to clean the plug hair drain catcher thing that you need to clean the most often because pretty gross very quickly.

So this is a bit gross.

I'm just gonna get all the hair off.

It's been soaking for a little bit, get rid of all the hair, just get in there and give it a nice scrub.

So while I clean this instead of a kitchen chat, how about a cleaning chats?

I'm doing really well, had a bit of a tough time last year, but I'm feeling super awesome and I feel like, I don't know, there's something in my brain that's just kicked in and I feel like things are okay and I'm just doing stuff, you know, doing things that I'm passionate about and and having a really good time, been really enjoying music stuff lately, which has been really rewarding.

Also, I just booked tickets to go back home to Australia finally.

Oh my God, it's been ages.

But Australia opened up its borders.

So yeah, I'm going home.

It's interesting.

It's definitely a different feeling like the idea of going home, I mean after, after being away for like three years since the last time I went home.

So it's a very, very different feeling, this is so hard to clean because there's so many little nooks and crannies.

But yeah, I don't know there's something about, I think your twenties such a rough time, you learn so much and also you kind of get a sense of home and independence and so so many things.

So I don't know going home feels very different and what home is for me has changed a lot since I was in there, Australia lost.

But I'm very, very excited to go back.

I'm gonna get fish and chips.

We're gonna see some friends.

All that good stuff.