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Japanese high-tech toilets standardise icons to help confused tourists

Japanese high-tech toilets standardise icons to help confused tourists

It's long been a conundrum for visitors to Japan: how do you actually use the toilet? For more than 35 years, the "washlet"—also known in some parts as the "super toilet"—has baffled the unwary traveller with its incredibly confusing array of additional functions.

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Sergey #12622
To be honest the icons are still not quite intuitive to me, but at least they are standardized now.