Toilet Tourism!

[Taro Toporific]

'Come to Japan & see our toilets!'

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TOTO to open a toilet gallery at Narita Airport for PR to foreign visitors: nikkei.com/article/DGXLASDZ08HWF_Y5A100C1TI0000/ (in Japanese)
---via @Mulboyne

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[matsuki]

Washlets are nice and might sell more with easy purchasing at the airport...but the design (water saving?) of having only a small area of water towards the back of the toilets here...not so much. Most of the other toto restroom shit (pun intended) is overpriced, outdated, and not likely to do well outside Japan. (Even most of my j-friends dig the dyson hand dryers over the poorly executed air dryers in most Japanese restrooms) As the washlets get more popular outside Japan, I think it's only a matter of time til the Chinese knockoffs ruin that market for them.

[wagyl]

I was at Narita for the first time in a long while the other day, and washlet seats were on very prominent display, front and centre in the duty free shops. I think that Chinese tourists are their market.

[matsuki]

I was at Narita for the first time in a long while the other day, and washlet seats were on very prominent display, front and centre in the duty free shops. I think that Chinese tourists are their market.

I keep getting requests from kaigai friends for them...and they are starting to sell some in the U.S. Those will totally sell....until far cheaper Chinese ones, that probably melt and burn you, hit the market.

[kurogane]

Washlets are nice and might sell more with easy purchasing at the airport...but the design (water saving?) of having only a small area of water towards the back of the toilets here...not so much. .

I made up a huge pot of chili con mucho carne the other night, and this morning laid down a stripe that would have shamed a Yokuzuna. It took 5 flushes to clear the road. BTW, I have always hated washlets, or anything the natives label as Benri, but just how does one use a washlet and not end up with 2 or 3 clumps of sodden TP stuck to your pud?

As with most fabricated need technology, washlets are crap.

PS about half the East Asian tourists staying at the budget hotels in Sanya show up back from Akihabara carrying a brand new washlet seat. There's gold in them thar dupes, I tellya.

[Coligny]

I wonder where the bunghole is located on japanese male. But without the female/bidet optilon I end up with a wet lower back and a dry bunghole.(well not water-wet that is)

They should hire humans for product testing/sizing.


Kuro... Invest in 2 plies...

[matsuki]

Washlets are nice and might sell more with easy purchasing at the airport...but the design (water saving?) of having only a small area of water towards the back of the toilets here...not so much. .

I made up a huge pot of chili con mucho carne the other night, and this morning laid down a stripe that would have shamed a Yokuzuna. It took 5 flushes to clear the road. BTW, I have always hated washlets, or anything the natives label as Benri, but just how does one use a washlet and not end up with 2 or 3 clumps of sodden TP stuck to your pud?

As with most fabricated need technology, washlets are crap.

PS about half the East Asian tourists staying at the budget hotels in Sanya show up back from Akihabara carrying a brand new washlet seat. There's gold in them thar dupes, I tellya.

Well, even in LA, in a well heated and insulated home....at the very least, a heated toilet seat is much appreciated.

I'm surprised we haven't ever seen a Chinese tourist arrested for stealing a washlet from a public toilet.

I wonder where the bunghole is located on japanese male. But without the female/bidet optilon I end up with a wet lower back and a dry bunghole.(well not water-wet that is)

They should hire humans for product testing/sizing.

[kurogane]

The heated thing I can see, though I still find it sort of gross. It's a toilet seat: it was perfect when they first made it. People just need to get their balls back in place and remember what toilet paper is for.

[Samurai_Jerk]

The heated thing I can see, though I still find it sort of gross. It's a toilet seat: it was perfect when they first made it. People just need to get their balls back in place and remember what toilet paper is for.

I fucking hate heated toilet seats.

[matsuki]

The heated thing I can see, though I still find it sort of gross. It's a toilet seat: it was perfect when they first made it. People just need to get their balls back in place and remember what toilet paper is for.

I fucking hate heated toilet seats.

You like sitting on cold ass (hehe) toilet seats? Or maybe you prefer those germ laden fufu covers?

[Coligny]

The heated thing I can see, though I still find it sort of gross. It's a toilet seat: it was perfect when they first made it. People just need to get their balls back in place and remember what toilet paper is for.

I fucking hate heated toilet seats.

The list of things you don't hate is shorter than my japingo vocabulary list...

Neko
Coneko
Kuubo
Sensuikan
Bukake
Hikoki
Kuruma
Maybe 3-4 more...

[kurogane]

The heated thing I can see, though I still find it sort of gross. It's a toilet seat: it was perfect when they first made it. People just need to get their balls back in place and remember what toilet paper is for.

I fucking hate heated toilet seats.

You like sitting on cold ass (hehe) toilet seats? Or maybe you prefer those germ laden fufu covers?

Admittedly, the poo catcher towel covers are even grosser, but there is something cloying and gross about a hot toilet seat. I used to dial ours down to next to zero which meant it just wasn't ice cold, but if I dropped my guard it was back to burn level before I knew it.

[Grumpy Gramps]

I usually pretty pretty pleasely ask wifey for permission to turn the seat-heater off in ~May or so. And if I ask nicely enough, she'd grant it most years. Other than that, I wouldn't want to go back to toilet paper, unless I really had to.

[Coligny]

Didn't they use newspaper at the outhouse in your days ?

[Grumpy Gramps]

Gramma used to, because toilet paper cost money, while painstakingly cutting nice and exact squares out of newspaper only cost time. Gramma had more time than money. And Great-Gramma who lived with her agreed. Not sure, how many wars these old girls had gone through together, couple of world wars and then some, I think, but running away from whoever ran after them several times tought them some modesty I guess.

[yanpa]

Toilet paper... worth its weight in cigarettes in case of major natural disaster. I will never forget the envious, nay avaricious expressions I got when transporting a 12-pack on the Yamanote line in late March 2011.

[Samurai_Jerk]

The heated thing I can see, though I still find it sort of gross. It's a toilet seat: it was perfect when they first made it. People just need to get their balls back in place and remember what toilet paper is for.

I fucking hate heated toilet seats.

You like sitting on cold ass (hehe) toilet seats? Or maybe you prefer those germ laden fufu covers?

Admittedly, the poo catcher towel covers are even grosser, but there is something cloying and gross about a hot toilet seat. I used to dial ours down to next to zero which meant it just wasn't ice cold, but if I dropped my guard it was back to burn level before I knew it.

I hate both. A toilet seat should be cold. What kind of fag (obviously the answer is choko) wants a hot sweaty ass?

[Coligny]

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[matsuki]

I hate both. A toilet seat should be cold. What kind of fag (obviously the answer is choko) wants a hot sweaty ass?

Hot and sweaty? How about just warm enough to not freeze your ass to the seat. Not to mention virii thrive in the cold...

[Yokohammer]

The correct temperature for a heated toilet seat is around body temperature. Don't need to feel the heat.


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[matsuki]

The correct temperature for a heated toilet seat is around body temperature. Don't need to feel the heat.

I dunno if I'd call it "correct" but yeah, that's what I set mine to. Any more than that seems like a waste and turn it up too high, you get SJ's hot and sweaty experience.

[Yokohammer]

The correct temperature for a heated toilet seat is around body temperature. Don't need to feel the heat.

I dunno if I'd call it "correct" but yeah, that's what I set mine to. Any more than that seems like a waste and turn it up too high, you get SJ's hot and sweaty experience.

Correct by my personal and somewhat dogmatic standards.

Other people can burn their asses off if they like.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Tell that to the locals. In a lot of public bathrooms the seats are cranked all the way up and you can't adjust the setting. To make it worse they're heated from the end of September till the end of June. I usually unplug the seat if I'm dropping a major deuce.

[Russell]

I have washlets on both my toilets, but never use them, except for their heated seat functions (used in moderation).

There is nothing better than scraping your ass with old-fashioned toilet paper.

[Grumpy Gramps]

The right temperature is when you sit down and then get the wonderful feeling that someone else had been there just before you; you and them are now a "let's use this toilet seat" community. A cold seat makes you feel lonely doesn't it

[kurogane]

No, like, seriously, dood. Yuck.

[Russell]

China media mock Japan's luxury lavatories

The built-in bottom washers and pre-warmed seats of Japan’s luxury toilets faced a storm in a U-bend on Thursday as Chinese state-run media launched a thunderous tirade against them.

The Global Times, which is affiliated with the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily, devoted the editorial in both its English and Chinese editions to the subject, under the headline: “Popularity of Japanese toilet seats overstated”.

There were calls for Chinese consumers not to purchase Japanese goods when the two countries’ relations reached crisis point over East China Sea islets controlled by Tokyo and claimed by Beijing.

Buying its neighbor’s lavatories “makes a mockery of China’s boycott of Japanese goods”, the paper said.

“That Chinese tourists swamp Japanese stores at a time when the country is facing a sluggish domestic demand is certainly not something to be proud of,” it said.

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Roughly half a million Chinese tourists descended on Japan over this month’s Lunar New Year holiday, spending an estimated $882 million according to Nomura Securities.

And AFP was able to confirm Thursday that the toilets at the foreign ministry in Beijing are manufactured by Japanese industry leader Toto—although of the normal variety, rather than full-service models.

[...]

It was unclear why the Global Times focused its ire on the smallest room, but it may have been triggered by a Beijing Youth Daily article that said the seats were second only to rice cookers in popularity among purchases by Chinese tourists to Japan.

The high-tech bathroom accessories, often equipped with multiple water jets, hot air dryers and automatic lid raisers, are common throughout Japan but a dramatic contrast to the squat facilities still common in much of China.

Basic models cost around $200 but buying at the top of the range can mean flushing away thousands, and they are often seen as a status symbol among Chinese nouveau riche.

The Global Times acknowledged that the toilets’ popularity “is not accidental as they explicitly show the human touch, intelligent design and sophistication of Japanese goods”.

But it added with disdain: “World-class toilet seats are not what Chinese manufacturers aspire to make.”

Many ordinary Chinese seized on the point, saying China should not care about simple household appliances and should instead strive to innovate.

“There is no need to revere a toilet seat on the level of a god,” said a poster on the Global Times’ Chinese website.

“We should be focusing on developing new heights in technology like robotics and microchips.”

Many commenters adopted potty language, while others mocked the paper for giving such prominence to a toilet.

“Alert the people of this sinister Japanese plot! We must unite to walk our own path and our own national dream,” said one, borrowing language frequently used in Communist Party slogans.

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In the mean time, lots of illegal copies of those toilet seats are being sold in China.

Talk about innovation...

[Samurai_Jerk]

I prefer the Chinese bootleg washlets. Nothing like an electric shock to the ass to get you going first thing in the morning.

[Russell]

I prefer the Chinese bootleg washlets. Nothing like an electric shock to the ass to get you going first thing in the morning.

Why do you think it will be limited to your ass?

Urine is known to conduct electricity well...

[kurogane]

Indeed.........