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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shibuya district is offering tours of its architect-designed public facilities that feature in Perfect Days Japan’s hi-tech toilets have long fascinated visitors who rave about their heated seats, ...

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 ...

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 ...