The toilet is usually Japanese style. you don't sit on it but squat over it facing the hooded end. Special slippers are usually provide for use only in the toilet cubicle. Before going into the communal bath, you undress in an anteroom placing your and underclothing in a basket or shelf compartment .The inn gives you a hand-towel to drape over your midriff the bathroom and this towel is also used io take a tirst sit on a low stool in front ot a pair of hot cold water faucets Fill a bath panawith water and pour it aucets use get wet all are no a bath to scoop water from the bath if there sashower use this while seated on the stoolinever So p and Only then do you get into