Tokyo has transparent public toilets, and they’re awesome

[Mike Wehner]

• A new public toilet restoration project in Tokyo has resulted in transparent restrooms that magically block people's view once the door is locked.
• The project was started because people dislike the current public restrooms and believe them to be too dark and dirty.
• The transparent restrooms also function as bright lanterns at night.

Public toilets are known for a number of things, and they're almost all bad. They're typically dirty, smelly, and depending on where they're located, crowded. There's nothing worse than needing to use the restroom only to spot a public toilet and then walk up to see that it's occupied.

Tokyo is working to solve some of these problems by renovating dozens of public toilet locations around the Shibuya district, and they've hired professional architects to put their own spin on things. The result? The first transparent public toilets in the city and they're way cooler than you can imagine.

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