There’s nothing us Brits love greater than a bit of bathroom humour so once I heard there was a museum dedicated to such issues I assumed it was a spot I simply needed to see.
Every time I hear the phrase Toto two issues come to thoughts. One in every of them is the American rock band famed for the early 80s hit single ‘Africa‘ after which there’s the bathroom producer. The latter has a museum in Kitakyushu, the northern tip of Japan’s most southern primary island. This elegant two-story museum was truly essentially the most well-known of all of the locations I went to throughout my eight hours in Kitakyushu however was going there the excrement concept that I assumed it will be?
As soon as I used to be finished on the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Artwork I took a bus to the centre of Kokura for my subsequent museum expertise. These of a delicate nature are warned to not dare present their feces round right here as we’re about to plumb to low depths and deposit some factual bathroom matter.
A bathroom bike! Sure actually!!
Beforehand I actually was simply anticipating some quirky little museum but it surely’s a sizeable place that basically takes itself critically with shows taking the guests by the historical past of bathrooms and Toto’s modern sanitary gear, together with early ceramics and fashionable washlets.
It’s a human expertise that everybody can relate to though I’m undecided whether or not such a practical a part of day by day life is interesting to all.
Toto’s most well-known product is the washlet and it’s potential to see the interior workings of such technological improvement. I’m not one for getting too slowed down by such particulars although and simply want different Japanese industries would innovate as a lot as Toto has finished because the nation lags behind in software program and digitilisation.
The quantity of knowledge and reveals within the museum is somewhat overwhelming however the evolution of bathrooms and different Toto merchandise over the many years is a spotlight.
It contains bathroom bowls, washlets, urinals, bathtubs and fittings.
Total, this museum was most likely too severe for my liking however you can not argue with the free entry which makes it nicely value a go to when you’ve got a little bit of spare time. I’m undoubtedly glad that I went and received all of it out of my cistern! I had hoped that my exit from the museum would put a lid on the matter however a grim bathroom journey of types adopted at my subsequent vacation spot!
- Toto Museum is positioned at 2-1-1 Nakashima, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka-ken. It’s open from 10:00 until 5:00 pm between Tuesday and Sunday. Entrance is free.
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