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Japanese toilet aims to attract foreign tourists but not everybody is happy about it
- Oona McGee
Aug 8, 2026 - Tweet
Rural town’s attempt to draw tourists may have gone a step too far.
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Gun found in Japanese convenience store restroom, traced to forgetful on-duty cop
- Casey Baseel
Jun 10, 2026
A public restroom stall shock that had nothing to do with cleanliness.
- Japan
- (bathrooms • COK • convenience stores • crazy • crime • firearms • funny • gun • police • restrooms • weird)
Public restrooms in Osaka to get in-stall video screens with ads
- Casey Baseel
Mar 25, 2026
Video advertising seems contradictory to the digital signage’s originally intended purpose.
- Japan
- (clever • COK • crazy • Osaka • Public restrooms • public toilets • restrooms • techonolgy • Toilets • Umeda • Umeda Station • weird)
Majority of Japanese men say they feel some discomfort seeing female janitors in men’s restrooms
- Casey Baseel
Dec 15, 2025
Media personality’s comment sparks discussion about common occurrence.
Toilet rubber theft baffles, grosses out Japan
- Casey Baseel
Nov 19, 2025
Dozens of rubber fixtures have suddenly gone missing from building’s toilet lids and seats.
The pavilions and public restrooms of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai World Expo
- Master Blaster
May 5, 2025
Lots to see and do and flush!
- Japan
- (2025 Osaka World Expo • events • Gundam • Osaka • pavilions • restrooms • travel • Yoshimoto)
American comedian Jimy Kimmel was blown away by Japan’s bathrooms【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 3, 2024
“It’s like the whole country is Disneyland, and we’re living at Six Flags.”
- Japan, USA
- (bathrooms • celebrities • culture • funny • Jimmy Kimmel • restrooms • society • Toilets • video • washlets)
Plan to use historic stones to build restrooms for the 2025 Expo draws criticism
- Master Blaster
Feb 14, 2024
These ain’t no fortunate stones.
- Japan
- (architecture • castles • crowdfunding • Expo 2025 • history • Kizugawa • Osaka Expo 2025 • restrooms • unfortunate stones • Yumeshima • zannen ishi)
Tokyo entertainment complex remodels restroom to remove gender-neutral setup
- SoraNews24
Aug 6, 2023
Tokyu Kabukicho Tower’s genderless restroom had attracted negative reactions since the building’s opening last spring.
Teacher in Japan politely asks to use convenience store bathroom to jerk off, gets arrested
- Casey Baseel
Oct 29, 2022
Sure, when you gotta go, you gotta go, but that doesn’t mean you gotta come.
Japanese public restroom ads donate to charities every time a stall is used
- Master Blaster
Jun 15, 2022
Come be a part of the movement!
“I’ll kill you!” says Japanese schoolgirl when convenience store won’t let her use restroom
- Casey Baseel
Apr 22, 2022
Japanese police say call of nature was no excuse for threat of violence.
- Japan
- (bathrooms • COK • convenience stores • crazy • crime • restrooms • schoolgirls • weird • youth)
Japanese city’s plan to make convenience store restrooms public restrooms stinks, owners think
- Casey Baseel
Mar 28, 2022
Free toilet paper isn’t worth the potential risks and smells, opponents feel.
- Japan
- (bathrooms • convenience stores • crazy • public bathrooms • Public restrooms • restrooms • society • weird)
Japanese bathroom has a clever countermeasure for guys who pee on the floor at the urinal【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 28, 2020
It might not be permanent, though.
- Japan
- (clever • COK • cool • parking areas • Public restrooms • restrooms • SNJO • urinals)
Morons caught blasting adult-video audio inside one of Tokyo’s busiest train stations
- Casey Baseel
Aug 15, 2020
But it wasn’t naked people that they wanted to watch.
Japanese women show overwhelming resistance to unisex bathrooms in survey
- Casey Baseel
Jul 7, 2020
Over 60-percent gap between most and least accepting demographics.
Japanese police officers increasingly forgetting their guns in public restrooms
- Master Blaster
Jan 28, 2020
At least they didn’t forget to flush… we hope.
- Japan
- (Aichi • convenience stores • guns • Hyogo • Narita Airport • Osaka • police • restrooms • safety • Tokyo)
Shockingly dirty restroom in Tokyo train station has no poo, plenty of mysterious garbage
- Casey Baseel
Apr 3, 2019
Neatly sorted litter is all from one specific thing.
Japanese toilet thrills motorsports fans at Suzuka F1 racing circuit highway service area【Video】
- Oona McGee
Mar 26, 2019
Pull in and surround yourself with the sights and sounds of racing cars at this very unique pit stop.
- Japan
- (F1 • Formula One • highways • Japanese toilets • Otohime • parking area • Public restrooms • restrooms • service area • Suzuka • suzuka circuit • Toilets)
Japanese truck driver arrested for slapping young boy in the face after wet toilet paper prank
- Casey Baseel
Mar 21, 2019
Understandable anger, illegal reaction.
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