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Bathroom accident in Kyoto involves no poo, but there’s still a mess that needs cleaning up.
There’s not really any such thing as a good city to crash your car in. Still, you’ve got to think that Kyoto is an especially bad place to do it. Having been the capital of Japan for more than 1,000 years, there’s nowhere in the country with a denser concentration of historically significant buildings, gardens, and artifacts, so if you happen to slam your car into something, it was probably something important.
Case in point: on Monday morning, a 30-year-old driver crashed into a building that’s registered as Important Cultural Property by the Japanese government. What makes the structure special? It’s the oldest bathroom in Japan.
Sure, the toilets in question may not have the fancy heated seats and pulsating jets of butthole-cleansing water that modern Japanese toilets have, and are basically just circular holes cut into blocks of stone. That’s understandable, though, because this restroom was constructed in the early 15th century as part of Tofukuji Temple, in what’s now the Honmachi neighborhood of Kyoto’s Higashiyama Ward. See, while an ascetic lifestyle has long been part of being a monk in Japan, even the most stoic of practitioners needs a place to poop, so the temple constructed a restroom, called a tousu, next to its meditation hall.
The driver was an employee of the Kyoto Heritage Preservation Association making a work-related visit to Tofukuji, so the next time you’re berating yourself for a Monday morning screwup at the office, you can likely console yourself with the fact that you didn’t damage any 500-year-old historical sites.
By the way, for those wondering about the unusual-looking car involved, it’s a WiLL Vi, a model produced by Toyota from 2000 to 2001. The distinct rear glass styling is supposed to be evocative of a fairy tale princess’ carriage, so the designers probably envisioned more elegant motoring outings than “Smashing into some really old toilets.”
Someone crashed a car into Japan’s oldest restroom
Bathroom accident in Kyoto involves no poo, but there’s still a mess that needs cleaning up.
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