More Toilet Innovation

I thought there’d be no more toilets on Big On Japan after the 4th installment of the Toilets In Japan series, but I was wrong. Here’s yet another innovative addition to Japan’s toilet technology range:

3 Japanese Toilet Videos

Japanese Toilet Training

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Toilet Trivia

Toilet Use

As well as differences in design between Japanese and western toilets there are also several aspects of toilet use that are different too, and these can result in some interesting new experiences for visitors to Japan. Apart from getting to grips with squat toilets and figuring out how to flush baffling washlets, the use of toilet slippers in homes, hotels and some other buildings is most likely to be a new experience for a lot of foreigners.
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Toilet Design

As with so many aspects of life in Japan, toilets truly evoke the old cliché about the country being a blend of east and west, old and new. At one extreme, public toilets are very often Asian-style squat toilets, simple toilets resembling a hole in the ground that require the uninitiated to engage in a tortuous balancing act to use them. At the other extreme, toilets in people’s homes are often high tech affairs such as ‘washlets’. These are based on western-style toilets but with the addition of a perplexing control panel – press the wrong button and your bare behind will receive an unexpected surprise in the form of a jet of water or a blast of hot air.
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