What do you do if you are in a wheelchair and you need to go to the toilet, but the only one in the building is up a flight of stairs?
"I've been doing this for 37 years, so I'm used to taking care of how much I drink," says Josh Grisdale, a Canadian-born naturalized Japanese citizen who has cerebral palsy and uses an electric wheelchair. "I think there are more bathrooms available than in Canada, so it's still better than in other places. But it's something you're always conscious of, for sure."
This is a lesson I am learning for myself — firsthand. I am sitting in a wheelchair on the first floor of a restaurant in Tokyo's Asakusa district. The only bathroom is at the top of a narrow flight of stairs, and I need to go.