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Our washing machine was getting on in years, and tended to leave bits of black mold stuck to our clothes after a wash. Not good, especially with a baby in the house and load after load of baby-related things going through the cycle each day. So we went to the neighborhood Laox last weekend and dropped ¥150,000 or so on this thing: the National NA-VR1100R. (The “R” signifies that it opens with the door swinging out to the right, rather than the left like most front-loaders in this country.)
It’s got a dryer built in, which will be nice in the winter when we want that hot air blowing out into the apartment. It has a water heater, so we can do warm-water loads of whites (most Japanese homes only have a cold-water tap in the area where you install a washer, so having this onboard is good). It has a child lock function so we can keep inquisitive toddlers from crawling into the machine, like my brother no doubt would have tried as a youngster. It talks to us when we press the buttons, which is nice, because there sure are a lot of them. Good to have a sherpa here.
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