Transparent Toilets Take Tokyo’s Culture of Hygiene to the Next Level

Located in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Fukamachi and Haru-no-Ogawa Parks, the blue and orange toilets appear like beacons. They can be ...
New York Post

Tokyo’s fascinating public toilets all the rage as tourists take hours-long treks

Along with taking in temples and cherry blossoms, Tokyo visitors can now join a curated pilgrimage of the city’s more modern wonders: its public toilets. Penelope Panczuk was inspired to hop on the ...
BGR

Tokyo Has Transparent Public Toilets, And They're Awesome

A new public toilet restoration project in Tokyo has resulted in transparent restrooms that magically block people's view once the door is locked. The project was started because people dislike the ...
Hyperallergic

Tokyo Public Toilet Puts On a Mesmerizing Light Show

As the popular children’s book by Taro Gomi and Amanda Mayer Stinchecum teaches us, Everyone Poops. In divisive times, we can at least fall back upon this basic commonality, and a new art initiative ...

Are Japan's convenience store restrooms a 'public service'? The reality isn't so simple

Have you ever been saved by a convenience store restroom while out and about? Many people in Japan tend to consider them to ...
Japan Today

Japanese public toilet in Tokyo has windows that change color when you use it

Public toilets in Japan have been known to impress visitors, but in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward, you’ll find 17 restrooms that are on a whole other level. Designed by 16 creative professionals from around ...
CNN

Tokyo’s latest attraction: Transparent public toilets

Public toilets re-imagined: Founded by the Nippon Foundation, a private, non-profit charity that focuses on social innovation, the Tokyo Toilet Project has partnered with some of the biggest names in ...
Japan Today

Is that a public toilet or a performing arts hall? In Tokyo, you never know

The entryway was just too stylish. That’s what our reporter Yuuichiro Wasai thought when he spotted the entrance to a public restroom located in the Hatagaya area of Tokyo. It looked more like the ...
Business Insider

A Japanese neighborhood is home to 17 state-of-the-art luxury public toilets — see them all

The Shibuya district of Toyko is home to 17 über-modern public toilets. In 2020, the Toyko Toilet Project invited renowned creatives in Japan to design the facilities. The project includes bathrooms ...

Travelling to Japan? Don't miss these transparent public toilets in Tokyo

These unusual, coloured glass structures allow you to see what’s going on inside—until you enter to use them, and then an ...
CNET

Tokyo gets see-through public toilets people can inspect for cleanliness

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...
Princeton University

The Tokyo Toilet: Redesigning Tomorrow's Public Toilet for Improved Health and Sustainability

In 2020, the public toilet renovation project, “THE TOKYO TOILET” commenced in Shibuya, Tokyo. Representing Japan and featuring 16 internationally renowned creators, including architects at the ...