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How Japan's music playing, water-spraying TOTO toilets took over the world
It’s just a toilet but it is something that you use several times or more every day. So, instead of just doing the thing necessary to live, how about making it more comfortable and even enjoyable experience? That’s what TOTO, a Japanese manufacturer of conventional and smart toilets, has been working on for 100 years.
When they started their business, their focus was to provide western-style clean toilets in Japan’s homes. In 1980, the company started marketing a new type of toilet that had a buttock-washing feature integrated into an electric toilet seat, called Washlet. Now, it is a standard feature for most of the toilets in Japan, in homes, shopping malls, stations, and hotels. It also has become popular in some other countries, and some foreign tourists, especially affluent Chinese, buy TOTO’s smart toilet when they visit Japan.
However, TOTO’s innovation doesn’t stop there. They’ve been trying to reduce the amount of water needed for each flush. It used to use 10 litters for a single flush, but the recent models need only three litters or so.
The company’s history of the pursuit of conventional clean toilets to modern comfortable and eco-friendly toilets is presented in TOTO museum.
Enjoy reading and think how much is worth for a toilet.
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