For you Americans that lived in Japan for a while and moved back to the USA…. Did you bring back a bidet with you? And if yes did it fit your American toilet? Things you wished you knew? I bought one and don’t want to buy another when when I return to the States 😂 I can’t imagine going back to toilet paper only
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Most US toilets don’t have a power outlet that’s convenient for a bidet, other than that and a quick adaptor everything worked fine the last time we brought one back.
My friend in Palo Alto had one installed. My guess is that he had to special order it along with a bit of installation work. He had lived in Japan in the past and has a Japanese wife. After a number of years in the USA, they both got tired of walking around all day with dirty asses American style.
*Saaa*…The issues installing a Japanese squirting toilet seat in the US are gonna be fun (but not impossible). It’s much easier to just buy squirter in the US since every [major toilet manufacturer](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=japanese+toilet+seat&crid=21RWHGZ17LWZY&sprefix=japanese+toilet+seat%2Caps%2C338&ref=nb_sb_noss_1) sells them (on order from the supplier catalog).
To use a Japanese squirting toilet seat you should consider:
1. You need a power outlet with full ground fault breaker close to the toilet. Also, if you buy the Japanese squirter in Japan for US use you will have to double check that it works with US power, 120V 60Hz. Many Japanese appliances don’t function well without Japanese juice, 100V 50hz.
2. Does your US installation position have a tap for the bidet function in an accessible position? Is your plumber willing to work with Japanese metric fittings to be attached to US standard pipes? (Skilled plumbers know how to do it, but may be unwilling.)
3. Are you willing to go to an export appliance dealer in Akihabara to buy a US standard squirter? (Have you compared the US price for a Japanese squirter on Amazon USA to the price in Akihabara for an export model?)
I got one from Amazon and got an electrician to run the wire to my toilet at my old house in US
They sell cheaper Korean brands in the US. But yea housing codes say you shouldn’t have electrical outlets near water so your going to have to put it in.
I took one back to Australia to replace a Korean one that I had bought locally. The Korean one was poor quality. I wasn’t a fan.
We bought a decent quality Japanese one, and a massive transformer to handle voltage change from 240V to 100V at full amperage for the heaters. Worked fine for many years.
Plumbing and electrical was easy but obviously not to standards. I added a one way valve to make me feel better about the plumbing at least.
Electrical was initially just a power extension cord until we refurbished the bathroom and had the electrician put in two power points directly connected together, i.e no power. I fed the output from the transformer into one power point so that the other had 100V on it and then plugged the washlet into that.
It was all neat and tidy. The washlet + transformer cost about the same as an expensive Korean brand but I could replace the Japanese washlet any time I needed.
If you buy a transformer, look up the specs and ensure that voltage, frequency and max amps all match.
Worked for me. YMMV.