'If you sprinkle while you tinkle, please be neat and wipe the seat.' Its not unusual to see signs of similar content in the West, but in Japan I have not not seen any.(It may be written in Japanese)
Have you ever wondered what your tinkle sounds like or rather who is listening? Maybe not, but in Japan its such a concern especially in ladies toilets that it prompted the creation of a technology that distracts and obscure tinkling sounds,mamalian farts and other toilets emissions that are better kept private.
The otohime has a waves-crashing-on-a beach or rustling of water kind of a sound. As soon as one enters the bathroom, with a wave of the hand over a sensor or a touch of a botton the sound comes on and the tinkling can begin.
When I just came to Japan and joined the toilet queues, I was alerted to a flush almost immediately as one enters the bathroom, I enquired, only to find out that in the absence of a otohime,ladies flush to mask the sound.
This leads me to ask, when will they have something that addresses the smells?Air freshners seems to make it worse if it ever works at all.
Have you ever wondered what your tinkle sounds like or rather who is listening? Maybe not, but in Japan its such a concern especially in ladies toilets that it prompted the creation of a technology that distracts and obscure tinkling sounds,mamalian farts and other toilets emissions that are better kept private.
The otohime has a waves-crashing-on-a beach or rustling of water kind of a sound. As soon as one enters the bathroom, with a wave of the hand over a sensor or a touch of a botton the sound comes on and the tinkling can begin.
When I just came to Japan and joined the toilet queues, I was alerted to a flush almost immediately as one enters the bathroom, I enquired, only to find out that in the absence of a otohime,ladies flush to mask the sound.
This leads me to ask, when will they have something that addresses the smells?Air freshners seems to make it worse if it ever works at all.
I am looking forward to it.
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