TOTO, the leading sanitary ware marker of Japan, conducted an awareness survey on public toilets to inbound travelers in Japan. According to the results, 93% answered that they were more sensitive to cleanliness of public toilets than pre-pandemic.
The ratio of respondents who want WASHLET with cleaning technology by hot water droplets in public toilets was 88%, which was higher than 55% in the last survey in 2018. The highest ratio was 96% in India and China.
The survey also shows that 47.1% answered that clean public toilets make them have better images of the areas, and 56.9% that clean toilets in a restaurant make then have better images of the restaurant.