Japanese toilets are usually in a room all to themselves instead of being like USA where all the bath stuff is combined in one huge room. It has the advantage of being available when someone else is in the bath or brushing their teeth! Above is the downstairs toilet and below is the upstairs toilet. Notice at the back of the toilet there is a tiny sink where you can wash your hands as the clean water is running into the tank to fill for the next flush. These rooms too are the only rooms with pretty wall paper! 
Above is the washer/dryer sent over by the Navy for them to use. Below is the Japanese bath. Typical style is to wash outside the tub and then after getting clean to get inside the hot (I mean they know HOT) tub for soaking. We only took a shower as it is just too hot in August/September for using the ofuro (tub). Notice the little box at the head..that was the electric computerized controls to adjust the water temperature. The original ofuros in Japan were heated by wooden fires. I remember DH grandmother sitting stoking the fire for the family baths. It is nice to remember but I don't want to go back!
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