Tokyu Kabukicho Tower’s genderless restroom had attracted negative reactions since the building’s opening last spring.
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Pull in and surround yourself with the sights and sounds of racing cars at this very unique pit stop.
Female employee finds two different men camped out in the ladies’ restroom in roughly an hour.
Because the last thing you want to do is wander through one of Tokyo’s massive stations while trying to hold in a dump.
Men told to move to the back of the shopping complex rather than use a perfectly good toilet inside the restaurant.
While the widespread presence of public toilets in convenience stores is great, it is also fraught with ambiguous customs and could, technically, even lead to criminal charges.
With their heated seats, hidden sensors and warm water cleansing systems, Japanese toilets are used to being the centre of attention in hotel bathrooms, public restrooms and ordinary residences all around the country.
Now its time for their next-of-kin to get an upgrade, with a new machine set to revolutionise toilet paper dispensers, making it possible to automatically cut sheets and even fold the final edge into a neat little triangle for the next person to use.
In Japan, you’ll sometimes find extremely classy restrooms in surprising places, like sparkling-clean highway rest stops. But does that same metric apply to locations that you would expect to have swanky bathroom facilities?
It does in the case of the Takarazuka Grand Theater, home of the famous all-female Takarazuka Revue, which not only has an opulent restroom waiting for its guests, but also an extremely enlightened ratio of male to female bathroom stalls.
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