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in Japan you tend to shower & wash yourself clean _before_ getting into any bath. In the west people don't do it or do it very half asset. And tbh. a lot of places have combined bath/shower so you kinda can't even do it Japanese style nicely.

That alone probably will make a huge difference in how often you have to deep clean it.

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> you kinda can't even do it Japanese style nicely.

I mean you can as long as you make the bathroom a wet room and shower outside the tub, which is exactly how the Japanese do it.

Yes. But then those wouldn't be the places which GP was talking about, where the shower head is set up so you stand in the bath tub to take a shower.

I’ve used a bunch where the shower head is on a hose not fixed to the wall. Usually with a two-way faucet.

The biggest issue in the west is the room being wet to start with.

my point is most _rented apartments_ are not setup like that and do not provide a reasonable path to have it

most owned apartments also are not build in a way where it's easy to retrofit. So if you don't do a "in depth" renovation anyway, its often just not a good option from a financial POV. Especially if you have to reroute plumbing (for the floor level wet room sink), especially if beton floor or pre-existing floor heating is involved.

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