So in Japan, Their Public Toilets are Actually Worth Documenting

[Kazimiera]

So in Japan, Their Public Toilets are Actually Worth Documenting

Source: https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/...h-documenting/



Japanese people are known to be fanatical about cleanliness and take their lavatories very seriously. A Tokyo-based publisher produced a guide book to the best rest rooms in the city, and there’s even an annual award for “Toilet of the year”, awarded by the ministry of land, infrastructure and transportation. One very unique instagram account, called Toilets-a-g0-go, now helps us discover the joys of Japanese toilet architecture on the go. Don’t forget, this is the county that gave the world heated toilet seats, washlets and lavatories that play a tune in order to cover up the sounds of a user’s bodily functions.



In my experience, public toilets are something to walk somewhat hastily by, but in Tokyo, I think I’d find myself lingering a little longer than usual around these strangely-pleasing urban oddities. The irony of hanging around public toilets is not lost on me, but what designers and architects do with the most mundane and uninspiring structures, such as a public toilet, says a lot about people and a their city in general.

[Neon Knight]

On a point of English, you indulged the terribly illogical current habit of starting an article/speech with the word 'so'. "In Japan, Their Public Toilets are Actually Worth Documenting" is perfectly clear.

[Kazimiera]

On a point of English, you indulged the terribly illogical current habit of starting an article/speech with the word 'so'. "In Japan, Their Public Toilets are Actually Worth Documenting" is perfectly clear.

When I quote articles, I quote them in their entirety with or without spelling or grammatical errors. Personally, I would not start a sentence in that manner because, as you point out, it is illogical and unnecessary. But I don't want anyone coming back to me to complain. This has happened before when authors of articles contact the forum to complain that their articles have been edited.

[ModernMaskil]

On a point of English, you indulged the terribly illogical current habit of starting an article/speech with the word 'so'. "In Japan, Their Public Toilets are Actually Worth Documenting" is perfectly clear.

Nitpicking. Take your issue up with the article's actual author.

[Neon Knight]

Nitpicking. Take your issue up with the article's actual author.

I hadn't noticed that it was the original author's writing. But a thread title itself does not have to be a quote - it belongs to the thread starter.

[Ryuk]

Japanese toilets are so luxurious,it's ashamed to shit on them.

[Kamal900]

Their public toilets are much more cleaner than ours here, rofl.