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The shower is kind of cool.  It's a self contained water-proof room, so you shower on the floor.  In fact, in Japan you only shower on the floor.  The bathtub is not for cleaning yourself.  It's for relaxing after your shower.  You are supposed to sit on a bucket on the floor and fill another bucket with the right mix of hot/cold water - they don't use shower heads.  It's very different from America.  But since this is my bathroom, I use the shower head and stand in the bathtub... but don't tell anyone!