Tokyo’s Shibuya neighborhood gets fancy public toilets that are engulfed with glass all around. These are installed by a non-profit organization called Nippon.
Every country has public toilets, some of them have the auto-clean technology in them. But, Tokyo, the capital city of Japan has implemented futuristic technology in two of its public toilets that are recently installed in Shibuya city.
The toilets have transparent glass all around and from outside you can see what’s inside. Yes, you heard it right.! But, what about privacy?
Don’t worry, that’s where the futuristic technology has been used.
The minute you enter into the toilet space and lock yourself, the toilet will automatically frost itself making you invisible to the outer world.
Do you want to check out how it works? Look at this video.
The transparent bathrooms of Tokyo are a part of the Tokyo toilet project, an initiative run by the non-profit organization called Nippon Foundation. The foundation will build 17 new age public toilets in the city.
Architect Shigeru Ban, who designed these transparent toilets appears to have caught the people’s attention through his glass designs.
There are two things people worry about while entering a public restroom, one is the cleanliness and other is whether anyone’s inside.
Ban’s transparent toilets solve both these issues as the visitors can peek inside the toilets without touching the doors and enable privacy just by the flick of the door lock.
The architect of these bathrooms, Ban says that these transparent toilets would be nice especially at night and each of them lights up in different colors like a lantern.
Both the bathrooms are located along the western side of the Yoyogi Park in Shibuya, Tokyo.
The specialty of these toilets is that the exterior switches from transparent to opaque in milliseconds of time.
Other creative designers came up with a squid toilet and a bright red toilet which is inspired by the Japanese decorative wrapping.
The Nippon foundation said that it supported this public toilets project as toilets are a symbol of Japan’s renowned hospitality culture.
The foundation says that it would work with the Japanese government and the tourism sector to ensure that the public spaces are neat and clean.
Japan will soon see many more transparent toilets across various cities.
By Gayatri Yellayi
