Madonna's Must-Have.

HI! WELCOME! to Yuri's Ultimate Random Guide.Here's my very first post for this blog and  I think the topic of this post is quite appropriate for this blog: Japanese Toilet.

It's random, yes, and it has something to do with Japan...back to my roots, yes.

Anyways, many of you may know (if you have visited or lived in japan) that Japanese toilet is geared with automatic bidet...! what is bidet? well, you can wiki it but in short, it's a place for people in the bathroom to wash their bottom after finishing their business (#2). It's been a tradition for many countries (India and Italy, well so far I only know two). But Japan has been practicing this in their ultra modern way since 1980...!!!!

It's widely known as "Washlet," a registered trademark of TOTO (World's largest toilet manufacturer. wow). It was exported to U.S. in 1960s for medical use but was developed to suit the regular household use after the manufacturer seeing its potential. (Source: wikipedia)

Ok, so how does amazing thing work??

This is what a toilet with washlet typically looks like...

Look at how sleek and smooth and pretty it is...

 This is the control panel for the washlet. Each button says, "Stop" "Butt" "Bidet" and "Soft". I'm not quite sure what "Butt" and "Soft" do to you, but I'm sure it's something quite amazing. Latter three has a on/off movement feature, which I think lets the splash of water move up n down for thorough wash.







OMG IT EVEN OPENS!!!!

All these buttons let you choose the temperature of your toilet seat (YES, TEMPERATURE. you know, in freezing winter, you're like "OMG OUCH" when you sit on the cold ceramic toilet seat right? NO MORE OUCH with TOTO)

Last but not least.... THE WATER SPLASHING NOZZLE. (nozzle is the technical term for the parts that shoot out  the water. I'm not sure if the term was created before snoop dogg)

When you sit, finish your business, and press the buttons on the control panel, this nozzle comes out forward to target a particular part between your butt cheeks. It will shower that part as long as you are satisfied, in order to wash off all that crap, literally.




Did you get a glimpse of this amazing machine that's in almost every household of japan?? Even when you are in toilet, Japanese modern culture will not let you down. From what I heard, Madonna fell in love with this machine and she installed it on every toilet she has at home. Don't know how many that is. Probably 2343500 toilets. I would do the same too, if I were Madonna.

Well, hope you enjoy my random guide and hopefully you got some useful random info. See you til next post...