User:JustinePorto/Public toilets in Japan

Hotels often provide plastic slippers for guests to use in their in room bathroom.

Music is often played in public toilets to mask the sound of people using and flushing the toilet.

Some public toilets play music when they dispense toilet paper.

Culturally, the sound of women urinating is viewed as embarrassing.

Japan Air was one of the few airlines to have sex-segregated toilets on airplanes. Their women's toilets were specially equipped and called, "Ladies' Elegance Rooms".

Bidets were popular for personal use in 2018.

Public toilets in Japan can sometimes be very high-tech. An airport in Japan has  a bidet attachment, heated seat and wipes for smart phone cleaning.

ben-jo is one of the local words for toilet.

The squat toilet was very common in Japan for a long time. They have been begun to be phased out in favor of sit toilets. By 2017, only 10% of the remaining public toilets in the country were squat toilets.

Toilet paper is very rarely available at public toilets.

Western style sit toilets have become the norm in Japanese public bathrooms.

Some people struggle to find the flush button in public toilets as control panels often have many options.

Public toilets can be found in train and metro stations.

Department stores often have toilets that can be used by the general public.

Lifestyle magazine Lifestyle.INQ ranked Tokyo as having the cleanest bathrooms in the world in 2019.

Public toilets in Tokyo are very clean.

Public toilets often contain a number of features like bidets with water pressure control and sound to muffle the noises made while defecating.

Most public toilets in Tokyo are free.

Public toilets in Tokyo could be found in parks and train stations. Community toilets could also be found in department stores, restaurants and convenience stores.

Japanese toilet paper is designed to dissolve in water. As a result, people can easily flush toilet paper without it causing issues with pipes.

Quantity
A 2021 study found there were eleven public toilets per 100,000 people.

Osaka had a density of 1.44 public toilets per square mile of public park in 2018.