In Japanese house nowaday, are they tend to use hi-tech toilet?
 

I saw many Washlet toilet or even Neorest in many public restrooms. Is it the same in the house?

I think that Japanese toilet is No.1 in the world. I don't think you can find any toilet that's more advance than Toto Neorest anywhere else.

Yes. They are very common in people's homes.

Ehh. Is it dangerous in case or water leak. Could it shock you to death?

Being as they are so incredibly common, if there were any danger of the sort I imagine people would be dying pretty frequently.
I have never heard of a single case, although they do advise you not to stab things into the seat. If you`re in the habit of storing knives in holes in the toilet seat, you may have some trouble.

This made me laugh so much. But what if I need to carve a ham or something while I'm in the bath?

They're not allowed in the UK because they violate all the regulations concerning wiring in bathrooms or something. Basically the health and safety goons don't want you mixing up electricity with water even remotely.

Most places I went to had this style of toilet, like the Washlet, though why haven't train stations adopted this as well?

I suppose the writing thing is somewhat understandable for public locations... But for a private home? It seems you could buy what you like and take responsibility for it if it shocks you.

My guess is that it`s a question of money and wear. Train station toilets get a lot of traffic, all day, and a lot of the traffic is rushed and rough.
The toilets they use are about as simple and unbreakable as it gets, but even they frequently need to be replaced. A nicer seat would be a waste, really.
It`s the same for other very high traffic toilets, like expressway rest stops. Some of those have things that remind me of prison toilets - a solid stainless steel thing that looks like it could last forever.

Other types of public toilet like department stores, convenience stores, and the like, don`t have the same levels of traffic.

I have only seen these in public toilets in department stores or other "nice" places. Certainly not in a train station.

I've seen that toilet in the train is a squat toilet, how can you use it without falling down when the car brake?

Back to the topic. I don't think that normal toilet is suitable to be use in high traffic area like train station especially e-bidet type. I don't think it can be last more than a few month before it broken down or some brats break it, and it's expensive to fix too.

Anyway I want to buy it someday to use it in my house, but it's so expensive for me eventhough it's made in Thailand. I believe it's around 200 something dollars here for seat only. You can buy another toilet with that amount of bucks! (American Standard Thailand is now subsidiary of INAX, so they start to sale Japanese style toilet with Thai language menu.).

But I've seen some ad about bidet seat which operate mechanically (no electric, wiring). They target at Japaneses living in Thailand. Has someone seen it?

Strange toilets, never heard of them until now :o

Well, for me a toilet is a toilet. The only thing that matters is how clean it is :mtongue:

I have a fairly fancy toilet in my house but I'm not into using any of the functions other than the heated seat during winter. Heated seats are much appreciated in an Hokkaido winter!

Yeah I like the heating seat too, It makes you feel good in cold weather.

This heated seat is disturbing O_O

Erm, as an American who will one day had just arrived in a Japanese place with these toilets, is it much different from US toilets?

It's not different from any other toilet on the planet, except the seat cover that has electronic features. You just drop your bomb into it, then flush it.

But some more hi-end toilet like the Neorest is quite difficult to use because

1. It has auto-open seat cover that use infrared to sense that you are coming to use it.
2. All of its button including flush is electronic button that has Japanese word on it (not push-down valve like normal toilet, Neorest is electronic operated). You got to guess what button is for flushing.
3. From above all the other buttons are Japanese too like bottom washing or heating function so you got to guess it.

But don't be afraid of it! If you could open the seat and flush it, it will be OK.

And there aren't many of this super hi-end toilet too. Most of the place is still use normal toilet that got hi-tech seat cover, that're not different than the one in the US.

Haha, you'd think, but then that's seriously underestimating the long arm of the Health and Safety officer here in the UK. It's insane. For the same reason a lot of bathrooms only have a string-pull light-switch (because you can touch it safely with wet hands, being separate from the electric source by a good foot or so), instead of a conventional flick switch. And you won't find anything other than a 'safe' shaving plug/toothbrush plug in a bathroom either, which is a special shape so you can't plug any other electrical item into it. And just to top it off, your electric cord for your beard trimmer or toothbrush can only be so long, to discourage people from using non-specialized waterproof equipment in the bath.

Daft innit?

Heated seats with infrared and all kinds of buttons? What's next, a talking toilet?

A heated seat is the farthest thing from disturbing when it's literally zero degrees (celcius) inside your apartment. If you've opened your fridge and felt "heat" then you'd probably come to appretiate a heated toilet seat.

Coming to Japan, I was well aware of the heated toilet seat thing as well as the squat toilets and stuff like that, but what I was most suprised to see was straight up urinals inside of peoples' bathrooms! Even though it makes sense, as a westerne I felt like it didn't have that "at home feel". I'm used to it now though.

When I stopped by Narita Airport I was sure to make a trip to the washroom to try out the toilet at least once! It was so high tech! Haha!

But speaking on toilets... does anyone know if they still have the toilets with the sinks on them? I'd rather get one of those!