Transparent toilets have arrived in Tokyo
Tokyo’s transparent toilets turn heads
Location: Shibuya
The walls of the spacious cubicles
are made of special glass
which remains see-through
until the user locks the door
The walls then turn opaque
allowing the call of nature
to be answered in private
(SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) 28-YEAR-OLD FUKUOKA RESIDENT VISITING TOKYO, ARISA KOMORI, SAYING:
"It's really cool but I felt uneasy using it. It's clean too."
The toilets were installed at two parks
as part of the "Tokyo Toilet Project"
which aims to reinvent public toilets
as cleaner and safer facilities
(SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) 36-YEAR -OLD TOKYO RESIDENT, CHIERI KUROKAWA, SAYING:
"I use public bathrooms a lot. You can see straight away that there aren't any suspicious people lurking in the toilets, so I appreciate that I feel safer about letting my children use the toilets on their own and wait for them outside."
