Designed by architects including Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma, the Tokyo Toilet project forms the backdrop for the Oscar-nominated film Perfect Days. Here, Dezeen rounds up all 17 facilities.
The Tokyo Toilet project brings together 17 public toilets in the city's Shibuya district, created by architects and designers over the past six years.
Commissioned by The Nippon Foundation as "a symbol of Japan's world-renowned hospitality culture", the unique facilities are now the subject of Perfect Days, an Oscar-nominated film by German filmmaker Wim Wenders that follows the daily life of a local janitor who cleans the toilets ? played by K?ji Yakusho.
Following the movie's release and in the run-up to the 2024 Oscars ceremony on 10 March, Dezeen has rounded up all 17 of the Tokyo Toilets, which their designers say were created with safety, cleanliness and inclusivity in mind.
Toilet, Higashi Sanchome, by Nao Tamura
Designer Nao Tamura took cues from Origata ? the traditional Japanese gift-wrapping method and a nod to hospitality ? when creating this red public toilet on a triangular plot in the city's Higashi Sanchome area.
The structure, which launched the Tokyo Toilet project, features a wheelchair-accessible bathroom and separate male and female toilets.
Tamura used bright red for the metal shell to make the block visible and project a "sense of urgency".
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