Is Japan Cool? Toilets!
Today I spotted the ultimate tourism travesty for Japan—In their ranking of the “coolest” things about Japan, the ANA contest “Is Japan Cool?” only considers hi-tech toilets as No. 2 among the must-see attractions in Japan!
Everyone let’s vote for “Toilets” as the Nippon’s Number 1 coolest thing!!
..You can view all the rankings on the official website of the “Cool Japan Campaign.” Better yet, just click on my photos editorializing* the top six cool things to see Japan.
Along with the Japan Cool rankings, the Japanese airline ANA has a new travel promotion offering the chance to win a pair of round-trip airline tickets to Japan. The competition is open to March 31, 2012 for people of all nationalities of 18 years of age or older. To enter, go to their website: www.ana-cooljapan.com/#/campaign
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March 7th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Going to radioactive Japan? Nope.
March 8th, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Check it out they even have a freaking motorcycle that has a toilet seat on it AND it runs on human excrement! WTF Japan?!?!?!
…blogspot.com/2011/10/wtf-japan-totos-toilet-poop-bike
March 8th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Sadly, TOTO Corporation’s “TOILET BIKE NEO”—part of their GREEN CHALLENGE—is not as fun as you make it sound. ;-/
According to TOTO’s website…
March 8th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Yeah, the party poops on TOTO’s website ruin all the fun by saying:
tototalk.jp/en
The TOILET BIKE NEO does not have the mechanism to run on the rider’s waste. It runs biogas fuel (fertilized, purified and compressed livestock waste and household wastewater) provided by city waste plants.
Therefore, the NEO REST seat doe snot function as a toilet, and has been created for promoting TOTO’s environmental efforts.TOTO is not involved with any motorbike or biogas production business.
March 12th, 2012 at 12:24 am
@Mulboyne
Takashi Murakami: “No one overseas talks about ‘Cool Japan.’ That is a lie and rumor.”
asahi.com/article/cool_japan… (E)
More Murakami: “It was intentionally created to satisfy the pride of the Japanese..it is only being accepted by a small group of fanatics”
More…
March 20th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
This is why Japanimation has survived this era. It’s no longer a child’s game. It’s becoming something for adults. It’s one of the styles of films that can involve pushing the limit without using real-life characters.
March 21st, 2012 at 1:35 am
This is so disguisting, the users of that toilet-bike are sick as hell and probably dead by now with some type of fica desease I know this has to be a third world country and should be reported to the authorities. OhhhhOh but if this is real shit you need to get a job at the zoo because they could use a shit eater to clean the zoo. Maybe this is slave labor.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
This is certainly better labeled than most space-cadet toilets…
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May 4th, 2013 at 11:02 am
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