If any, what method do you use for filtering water from the tap at home? Looking for a reliable and economical option, but curious to hear about any set up or system that you’ve experienced, good or bad. Thank you!
I have a water pump that filters it for me. All is well with well water.
I use those Brita filters, which cost like 500 yen per month.
Tap water is safe to drink
Tap water. It’s safe and better quality than what I am used to in the US.
Tap water, straight with no filter.
No filter. I fill up bottles and put them in the fridge, but I drink pretty much only tap water.
I was drinking straight tap water in Osaka and it was fine. But most Japanese people (OK girls) who I had over simply refused to drink tap water and would always buy bottled water. I can’t stand that kind of wastage so eventually I got one of those attachable filter things to put on the end of my tap and insisted that my guests just drink tap water.
I’m glad I got it though because the water in Tokyo tastes weird by comparison, and the filter gets rid of the weird taste. Not saying that the tap water is not clean, but the filter definitely fixes the taste.
There’s a filter inside the hose (sink) with a button for normal water or drink water. They automatically send new filter every 3 months . (Osaka/Mansion)
At my old apartment I used a Cleansui and worked great for me. At my current place the faucet has a filter installed already, so I don’t worry about thay anymore.
Brita water filter.
None. Tap is fine unless you objectively have proven otherwise.
Toray water filter that you attach to the sink faucet. The Tokyo tap water often tastes and smells like chlorine and you can taste the difference in tea, coffee and soup.
Well first it falls on the trees in the forest that surrounds us and then gently splashes on their leaves and branches working its way to ground level, after that it slowly percolates through the leaf litter and then passes to the soil. We’ve got about 10 metres of Kanto loam where we are so it slowly picks up natural minerals as it passes through that. Below that it passes into a mixed bed of fine sand and small gravel (where the fine filtration happens) which goes down 50 metres or more (could be deeper but that’s the depth of the well so didn’t see what was below when they drilled it). It’s in this gravel/sand bed that the rain passes into our well and is finally pumped back up to the surface for drinking or other uses.
I’m totally happy with this filtration system and would recommend it to everyone, it produces lovely delicious water easily as tasty as many expensive bottled mineral waters.
I have no problem drinking tapwater, but anyway my kitchen sink has a built-in filter so I use that
We have a screw on attachment that we change a filter on every few months
My kidneys
We went with a Seagull IV because it was the one that our kitchen manufacturer recommended to go with our all-in-one faucet as we wanted a clean look. Filtration cartridges last a year but get them straight from the manufacturer and stock up on them few at a time as they’re more expensive online in single packs.
We have a built-in filter in the tap (Panasonic). A three pack of filters is about 8k-10k and lasts about a year for us, maybe a bit expensive but extremely convenient. This is still not good enough for my husband though because he’s a weirdo so I also get the free filtered water from the supermarket. Not everywhere has them but basically you buy a special jug and you can use that to get free filtered water from a machine near the tills. Some places make you scan your point card but my supermarket doesn’t.
Not really a filter, but we always put tea bags in a two litres jug with fresh tap water. Clean and refill when empty. That’s if you don’t like the chlorine taste of tap water.
I have a jug with a built in filter, I fill it up and put it in the fridge. Have been using it for the past 5 years, works great. You have to change the filter “every 6 months”, but it lasts well over a year without changing unless you drink like an absolute maniac.
I was using Brita forfew years but decided to buy a filter. Since I rent I could not use build in option. I went for Everpure Eso7 cartridge that I mounted below sink. Water taste is way better then before.
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I have a water pump that filters it for me. All is well with well water.
I use those Brita filters, which cost like 500 yen per month.
Tap water is safe to drink
Tap water. It’s safe and better quality than what I am used to in the US.
Tap water, straight with no filter.
No filter. I fill up bottles and put them in the fridge, but I drink pretty much only tap water.
I was drinking straight tap water in Osaka and it was fine. But most Japanese people (OK girls) who I had over simply refused to drink tap water and would always buy bottled water. I can’t stand that kind of wastage so eventually I got one of those attachable filter things to put on the end of my tap and insisted that my guests just drink tap water.
I’m glad I got it though because the water in Tokyo tastes weird by comparison, and the filter gets rid of the weird taste. Not saying that the tap water is not clean, but the filter definitely fixes the taste.
There’s a filter inside the hose (sink) with a button for normal water or drink water. They automatically send new filter every 3 months . (Osaka/Mansion)
At my old apartment I used a Cleansui and worked great for me. At my current place the faucet has a filter installed already, so I don’t worry about thay anymore.
Brita water filter.
None. Tap is fine unless you objectively have proven otherwise.
Toray water filter that you attach to the sink faucet. The Tokyo tap water often tastes and smells like chlorine and you can taste the difference in tea, coffee and soup.
Well first it falls on the trees in the forest that surrounds us and then gently splashes on their leaves and branches working its way to ground level, after that it slowly percolates through the leaf litter and then passes to the soil. We’ve got about 10 metres of Kanto loam where we are so it slowly picks up natural minerals as it passes through that. Below that it passes into a mixed bed of fine sand and small gravel (where the fine filtration happens) which goes down 50 metres or more (could be deeper but that’s the depth of the well so didn’t see what was below when they drilled it). It’s in this gravel/sand bed that the rain passes into our well and is finally pumped back up to the surface for drinking or other uses.
I’m totally happy with this filtration system and would recommend it to everyone, it produces lovely delicious water easily as tasty as many expensive bottled mineral waters.
I have no problem drinking tapwater, but anyway my kitchen sink has a built-in filter so I use that
We have a screw on attachment that we change a filter on every few months
My kidneys
We went with a Seagull IV because it was the one that our kitchen manufacturer recommended to go with our all-in-one faucet as we wanted a clean look. Filtration cartridges last a year but get them straight from the manufacturer and stock up on them few at a time as they’re more expensive online in single packs.
We have a built-in filter in the tap (Panasonic). A three pack of filters is about 8k-10k and lasts about a year for us, maybe a bit expensive but extremely convenient. This is still not good enough for my husband though because he’s a weirdo so I also get the free filtered water from the supermarket. Not everywhere has them but basically you buy a special jug and you can use that to get free filtered water from a machine near the tills. Some places make you scan your point card but my supermarket doesn’t.
Not really a filter, but we always put tea bags in a two litres jug with fresh tap water. Clean and refill when empty. That’s if you don’t like the chlorine taste of tap water.
I have a jug with a built in filter, I fill it up and put it in the fridge. Have been using it for the past 5 years, works great. You have to change the filter “every 6 months”, but it lasts well over a year without changing unless you drink like an absolute maniac.
I was using Brita forfew years but decided to buy a filter.
Since I rent I could not use build in option.
I went for Everpure Eso7 cartridge that I mounted below sink.
Water taste is way better then before.