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Public Toilets in Japan

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Friday, 14th November 2008

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Wow, here in the north-west sprawl of Tokyo, when they say public toilet, they really mean it!

A glance up at a nearby sign reveals that this is actually a shop window display for a shop selling toilets made by TOTO – manufacturer of the world’s largest toilets!

Or maybe that should be the world’s largest toilet manufacturer?

Either way, I ended up reading this thrilling Wikipedia article about toilets in Japan. Nobody ever said Wikipedia wasn’t informative!

Thanks to Andy for the submission and Simon for the research…

8 Responses to 'Public Toilets in Japan'

  1. koen says:

    Aaah, you should have posted this on Japan’s national sewage day! I know where I’ll be semptember 10 next year. It sounds like a fun holiday.

  2. Ross says:

    I was very apprehensive about toilets before I traveled to Japan, so I read that Wikipedia article very carefully.

    Luckily, I was able to use Western toilets the entire 5 weeks of my stay in Japan…phew.

  3. Willie says:

    ou god! very horrible

  4. koen says:

    I was peeing in a TOTO just the other day, and I wondered; will this make it rain in Africa?

  5. dr.R. says:

    “The TOTO product Washlet Zoe is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most sophisticated toilet with seven functions.”

    Now I know what to ask from Santa!

  6. dr.R. says:

    You should have kept this post for today, 19 November, which is World Toilet Day!

    But you’re forgiven, I also didn’t know it until today… ;-)