C.R.

Toilet facilities here are referred to as "comfort rooms" or simply "C.R.". How comforting.

However, especially in rural or poor areas, a C.R. can be an unlit shack with a dirt floor, two footpads and a hole, and no paper, just a bucket of questionable water and a scoop. Even ones with an actual toilet fixture frequently have no seat, and/or you have to pour water in (from the bucket) to the bowl to "flush" because it's not hooked up to a water supply. I have come to think of this comfort-room bucketed water as eau de toilette. It's more comforting that way.

O Japan, I miss your washlets.