Tokyo transparent toilet's walls go opaque when door closed
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A man gets seen through the transparent toilet as he unlocked the door after use at Haru-no-Owaga Community Park in Tokyo on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. The walls of two newly installed public toilets in Tokyo's Shibuya neighborhood are see-through before people enter, but turn opaque when the doors are closed and locked from the inside. The so-called transparent toilets, which opened this month, were designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban for a project organized by The Nippon Foundation that redesigned a total of 17 public toilets in the neighborhood. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)Nasser Najafian, of Tehran, Iran, working in Tokyo, gets out of a transparent glass toilet after use, at Yoyogi Hukamachi Mini Park in Tokyo on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. The see-through bathroom, one of the three toilets recently completed for public use turns opaque once it's locked when used. The Nippon Foundation and Tokyo's Shibuya district government have started a program to build over a dozen restrooms in Tokyo, to dispel negative misconceptions regarding public toilets. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)This photo shows a transparent glass bathroom, one of the three toilets recently completed for public use, which has turned opaque after someone locked the door for use, at Yoyogi Hukamachi Mini Park in Tokyo on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. The Nippon Foundation and Tokyo's Shibuya district government have started a program to build over a dozen restrooms in Tokyo, to dispel negative misconceptions regarding public toilets. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)This photo shows the transparent glass toilets at Yoyogi Hukamachi Mini Park in Tokyo on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. The bathroom with the opaque (orange color) wall, left, indicates it's in use. The walls of two newly installed public toilets in Tokyo's Shibuya neighborhood are see-through before people enter, but turn opaque when the doors are closed and locked from the inside. The so-called transparent toilets, which opened this month, were designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban for a project organized by The Nippon Foundation that redesigned a total of 17 public toilets in the neighborhood. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)A man gets out of one of the transparent glass toilets after use at Yoyogi Hukamachi Mini Park in Tokyo on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. The bathrooms with the tinted wall turn opaque when it's in use. The walls of two newly installed public toilets in Tokyo's Shibuya neighborhood are see-through before people enter, but turn opaque when the doors are closed and locked from the inside. The so-called transparent toilets, which opened this month, were designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban for a project organized by The Nippon Foundation that redesigned a total of 17 public toilets in the neighborhood. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)A man uses a transparent toilet that has turned opaque, right, after the door was locked at Haru-no-Owaga Community Park in Tokyo on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. The walls of two newly installed public toilets in Tokyo's Shibuya neighborhood are see-through before people enter, but turn opaque when the doors are closed and locked from the inside. The so-called transparent toilets, which opened this month, were designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban for a project organized by The Nippon Foundation that redesigned a total of 17 public toilets in the neighborhood. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)Jay Dossor, a 15-year-old Australian-Japanese, uses a bathroom before playing soccer with his friends at Yoyogi Hukamachi Mini Park in Tokyo on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. A man, left, is seen through because he intentionally did not lock the door as he was posing for his friend at the newly built transparent public toilets. The walls of two newly installed public toilets in Tokyo's Shibuya neighborhood are see-through before people enter, but turn opaque when the doors are closed and locked from the inside. The so-called transparent toilets, which opened this month, were designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban for a project organized by The Nippon Foundation that redesigned a total of 17 public toilets in the neighborhood. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)A man walks by the transparent glass toilets at Yoyogi Hukamachi Mini Park in Tokyo on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. The bathroom with the opaque (purple color) wall, right, indicates it's in use. The walls of two newly installed public toilets in Tokyo's Shibuya neighborhood are see-through before people enter, but turn opaque when the doors are closed and locked from the inside. The so-called transparent toilets, which opened this month, were designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban for a project organized by The Nippon Foundation that redesigned a total of 17 public toilets in the neighborhood. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
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A man gets seen through the transparent toilet as he unlocked the door after use at Haru-no-Owaga Community Park in Tokyo on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. The walls of two newly installed public toilets in Tokyo's Shibuya neighborhood are see-through before people enter, but turn opaque when the doors are closed and locked from the inside. The so-called transparent toilets, which opened this month, were designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban for a project organized by The Nippon Foundation that redesigned a total of 17 public toilets in the neighborhood. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
