The Least Useful Guide to Fukuoka

                   780 JPY at a local DIY store

As the toilet of my family home was a non-flush type (you might not believe, but pit toilets have been very common until very recent), I didn’t know what to do when the toile in my home, which is a flush,  got jammed up.

Being ignorant of the mechanism of the clogged toilet, I have wasted good money on Kurashian,  a nation-wide plumber service open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week but cost you at least 8,000 JPY for each service.

Only recently have I learnt this thing could easily sort out toilet trouble of this kind. But there was another problem…I don’t know what it is called. Toilet suction cup? maybe? or any other particular name?  At a local DIY shop,  I falteringly said: “Eh…ah…would you stock something to sort out a clogged toilet?”,  with push-and-pull gesture. The shop assistant knowingly grinned and took me to the section where the thing was.My gallant endeavour was somewhat rewarded.

I don’t think I will buy this again in my life, so I might not have to know… but what do you call it, either Japanese or English?