Japanese Hot Toilet Seats

[Elizabeth]

Then you're doing it backwards. There's a reason the thing is shaped the way it is.

You're probably right, although I do sit as close as possible to the receptacle, in front of the hood/shield, and have so far had made a minimum mess of myself. Without a bar to hang onto, have also avoided bending over backwards.

 

[Mike Cash]

In the absence of a bar, one can grab onto the water pipe or, if arm length and toilet layout allow, brace against the rear wall with one hand.

 

[craftsman]

My father in law has perhaps got too much time on his hands since retiring his salaryman job. He has rigged lasers in the toilet so that when you walk in - the light switches on and the toilet seat cover lifts up automatically. The seat is of course warm and you can adjust the temperature and you have the choice of jets of water on a control panel on the wall. Angle, speed and water temperature can be adjusted by pushing the buttons. And of course when you are done, the light goes off again and the toilet shuts. Now that is a toilet and a half.
(PS. I think my father-in-law has totally lost the plot)

 

[nice gaijin]

thankyou that explination is very clear
they don't er have many of these toilets in japan anymore do they
it's just well i plan on living in Japan some day and i just don't think i could use one of those

I see them almost every day. It's rare to find a home with one, but most restrooms have one or the other or both kinds.

 

[Crazy Russian]

Wow! What a wonderful thread! It's very nice to have supper whilst reading the posts. :gohan: Undoubtedly, a hot toilet seat is a very good reason to love Japan.

Is it possible to regulate the temperature of a seat? Let us suppose that gas-stove and microwave oven are broken down. Is it possible to fry an egg on a seat or boil some water to drink tea?

Is it possible to get an electric shock whilst sitting on a seat? Can a toilet turn into an electric chair? Has anyone died of a toilet?

And the final question. I remember watching ﾂ'The Simpsons'. :homer: Homer and his family went to Japan. On entering their hotel room, Homer decided to visit bathroom. Inside the lavatory basin there was a TV camera. Bart turned on the television and saw on TV his father evacuating. Wow! Are there really built-in TV cameras inside lavatory basins? Or that was just a fertile imagination of the animated cartoon makers?

 

[zero g]

Interesting now I will know how to use those toilets if I ran across one in Japan. I would prefer to sit down rather than squat... but I guess you get used to it...

 

[Kyoko_desu]

Originally Posted by Crazy Russian
Is it possible to fry an egg on a seat or boil some water to drink tea?
Is it possible to get an electric shock whilst sitting on a seat?

Hahaha! Unfortunately, the seat cannot get that hot to cook or to turn into an electric chair.

Originally Posted by craftsman
The seat is of course warm and you can adjust the temperature and you have the choice of jets of water on a control panel on the wall. Angle, speed and water temperature can be adjusted by pushing the buttons.

Some of the hot toilet seats have buttons for adjusting the temperature, speed, and the angle of the water. Oh, and some can even blow dry your butt with hot air.

I have this embarrassing memory. Someone who used it before me changed the temperature of the water for washing really HIGH and I didn't know it and pushed the button and REAL HOT water spurted at me and I was like "Attsuuuuuuu!!!!" (Hoooooooot!) and jumped up from the seat like 3 meteres. No, it didnt burn my butt but was hot enough to scare me to death.

 

[leonmarino]

I have this embarrassing memory. Someone who used it before me changed the temperature of the water for washing really HIGH and I didn't know it and pushed the button and REAL HOT water spurted at me and I was like "Attsuuuuuuu!!!!" (Hoooooooot!) and jumped up from the seat like 3 meteres. No, it didnt burn my butt but was hot enough to scare me to death.

HAHAHA!! The day has just started, but you already made my day!!

 

[leonmarino]

Damn I wish I had some warm toilet seats now.. Holland is really getting cold.

 

[MajideSaiaku]

Cold? I'm a few hundred miles north and a little to the west, and the tree's are still green, a few are only just turning yellow and brown and stuff.


I have this cheapo yet nice toilet seat thats cuhsioned and takes on body warmth temprature as soon as your delicate rear-end makes contact...lovely, but I think I really mentioned it.

 

[craftsman]

The Mainichi newspaper today introduced the unsuspecting Japanese public to something called 'washlette syndrome'.

Let's first be clear what one of these is:

"Washlettes," as the popular potties are referred to in Japan, have become indispensable for many Japanese, who follow a squirt downward with another squirt upward to clean up the leftovers.

Yes, and they have warm seats and shiny buttons to push too.The basic problem with them though is explained by 'a 30-something Tokyo man' as follows:

"I use the washlette to clean up my bottom after I've defecated, but when I do so, the warm water it emits stimulates my buttocks and I feel like I've got more to let out. That goes on over and over again and makes it hard to leave the toilet."

Please. Did we really want such detail?

And now let's bring on the expert proctologist who explains more:

Many want an ever-stronger stimulation when they wash, turning the pressure up high and making the water hotter.

And this is bad for your botty because...

this increases susceptibility to illness.

Yes, of course.

But then the whole thing gets silly when Immunologist Koichiro Fujita says,

When I was a kid, we used to hang up a bit of rope next to the toilet and we'd rub our butts up against the rope to clean them after we'd had a poo," the doctor says. "People nowadays have gone too far in their quest for cleanliness."

I'm sorry doctor. Rope? Rub your butt up against a rope?.....Er.....

The actual article is here

 

[Mike Cash]

I've heard the rope thing before. Japan Google, at a very quick glance, returns mentions on Japanese sites of the same thing in Africa and China.

トイレット ペーパー 昔 ロープ - Google 検索

 

[craftsman]

Thank you for the link, Mike. This has opened a whole new world of posterior cleansing that I previously did not know existed.

 

[Mike Cash]

The world's a scary place alright.

As you may know,

In days of old, when knights were bold, and paper not invented,
They dragged their *** upon the grass and rode away contented.

 

[Carrie]

Yes, the traditional "squat" toilet is still very common in public places in Kyushu (perhaps it's easier to clean??) But I don't think they're as common in homes and appartments etc.(perhaps people like the comfort of the western toilet in their homes?)--haven't you even done your duty out in the wilderness?? same idea, really--except the bowl in the floor, and the nice flush, and toilet paper make the Japanese toilet much easier--you may want to work on your leg muscles before visiting Japan ;-) There is a certain feeling a contamination that's associated with toilets in Japan that we don't have in the west--for example you change your shoes to special slippers for the toilet, the toilet is not connected to your shower, and basically it is not a substitute for your home library--you get in, and you get out--

By the way--I didn't like the warm toilet seats--it made me feel like somebody elses butt was just there--yuk

 

[ArmandV]

There was a booth at the Japan Expo in Los Angeles promoting the Japanese toilets (the sit-down kind with the sprayer/heating controls) last weekend. They had a couple of models on display.

I asked the girl manning the booth if she'd demonstrate them, but my question flew over her head.

 

[Carrie]

Maybe she was jsut trying to be nice???

 

[ArmandV]

Maybe she was jsut trying to be nice???

She took me literally (Japanese seem to do that). She just said that they weren't hooked up to any water or power source.

 

[kuuzo]

First time I ever sat on a warm Japanese toilet seat, I immediately jumped up. I thought that someone had been sitting on it just a few moments before and had warmed it up. That was most unsettling.

 

[MajideSaiaku]

I dont need an uber warm massaging song playing ultra-toilet.

Just warm enough so that when I sit down it doesnt feel like I've just landed *** first on a big block of ice.


Japanese homes really need central heating, big time, I'm just so used to beinng able to sit in my house with nothing but boxer shorts and a t-shirt while its snow-drifting outside.

When I was in Japan I always wore "Pajama's" which were beasically a sweater and sweat-trousers, and ontop of that I ussue walked around with a blanket aronud me, or one of those padded Japansse house jackets.

Oh and I often sat on the heated carpet with the air conditioner on full blast with heated air.

All that effort just to stop myself freezing to death....


In my house in Britain, the thickstone walls keep in the heat, the central heating works and at the worst of winters I just torn on the gas fire in the livingroom.

Dunno, perhaps Japanese enjoy keeping themselves warm in winter, over just being warm without any effort, who knows.

 

[craftsman]

There was a booth at the Japan Expo in Los Angeles promoting the Japanese toilets (the sit-down kind with the sprayer/heating controls) last weekend. They had a couple of models on display.
I asked the girl manning the booth if she'd demonstrate them, but my question flew over her head.

It wasn't like this exhibition in Bangkok was it?

 

[ArmandV]

Close, but not that elaborate. I only took one photo (my ex-wife didn't believe me about the Japanese toilets until I showed her this photo).

 

[MajideSaiaku]

Nice photo ArmandV, aaah memories.....

 

[nasdaq100]

Kohler Mfg

There are many American manufactured washlets or toilet seats on sale in the USA,it's an American invention later licensed to Japanese back in the 1980's.

 

[pipokun]

Stay Tuned. Jazz Toilet To Be Launched
INAX launches a new product, REGIO, for toilet enthusiasts from June 1.
...
Also, the function, Relax Music DXII, gives you the original jazz by Yoshiko Kishino when you open the lid.

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INAX窶堙債、窶堋ｱ窶堋ｾ窶堙ｭ窶堙ｨ窶堙個絶?ｦ窶堙懌?堙ｭ窶堙ｨ窶堙ｰ窶ｹﾂ≫?堙溪?堙ｩﾂ人ﾅ津ｼ窶堋ｯ窶堙娯?芭ﾅｽﾂｮ窶｢ﾃ滅?ﾃｭﾂ「REGIOﾂ」窶堙ｰﾂ、2008窶扼6ﾅ椎ｽ1窶愿ｺ窶堋ｩ窶堙ｧ窶敕娯?昶?樞?堋ｷ窶堙ｩﾂ。
...
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http://www.j-cast.com/mono/2008/03/02017235.html

Anxious to know when Apple would sell ipod toilet, for I want to listen to what I want.