Today we checked out of our hotel. Often, I must confess, the worst part of checking out of a hotel is that for several hours is needing to use bathrooms in various places that don’t reach the, ahem, standards of a hotel or a home. In Tokyo, this is not a concern, at least not where we were. Public toilets showcased the latest in Toto toilet technology and were immaculately clean. This is most evident in Narita airport, where there is an entire “usable” exhibit to the different types of Toto toilet technologies.
And guess what, it works. I’m 100% buying one of these setups when we return to Madison, though I probably don’t need some of the bells and whistles. And by bells and whistles, I mean literal sound that is played at a user-configurable volume from the toilet itself. As I learned when Eli was a toddler, everybody poops, but no one does it as stylishly and sensibly as the Japanese.
—dave
