Posted on 10/18/2019 1:14:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Tokyo — The latest must-have product to take Japan by storm isn't high-tech and it certainly isn't garnering rave reviews in glossy design magazines. The country where electronically controlled, heated, bidet-accessorized, high-tech toilets are commonplace has in fact made another contribution to lavatory luxury.
High-end toilet paper is rolling off the shelves. So what's convinced Japanese consumers to fork out more than $12 per roll?
It started five years ago in the sleepy paper-making town of Tosa, on Japan's southwestern island of Shikoku. The aging owner of an obscure, family-run paper company called Mochitsuki Seishi was troubled by sensitive skin and determined to find a solution.
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I hope that it is double ply for that price.
They should make a killing with the Olympics next year and beyond.
Al Bundy could weigh-in on this.
Also, George will need a few rolls in his private handicapped bathroom.
Wonder what Joe Buck thinks, lol!
I really did not want to figure out all of the features of that bad boy. All I really wanted to do was my business.
In our remodel we prewired for these toilets but didn’t install them.
They will use these for gifts, not use it themselves.
When I worked in Tokyo, it was widely reported that restaurant orange juice was $18 per glass in some places. The truth: Your average restaurant will charge 300 yen (about $2.70), not so different than the same quality restaurant stateside.
The origin of the $18 juice was 1,800 yen per glass (really about $16.10 at current exchange rates) charged for a conference table at the main lobby of the Imperial Hotel in downtown Tokyo.
The Imperial is conveniently located to many government and business offices and people understand the expensive juice is actually a rental of a prime conference or meeting area so either (a)a visitor on business doesn't have to stray far from the posh Imperial or (b)their local Japanese colleague doesn't have to take them to some dingy little conference room at their business.
Just from my experience, electricity and water do not work well together.
I bought 3 rolls of that for my Dad for Father’s day several years ago.
Where are the Silkworms when you need them.
Hmmmmm. Luxurious, soft, ...
It’s Japan.
Took me a week to figure out how to work all of the controls. I mean other than the flushy thing.
Takes some getting used to. I almost took mine out at first but figured I'd give it a week.
Now I've had it 2 years and I love it.
So you pump your water by hand or...?
Being from Tennessee originally I find anything other than a stick or handful of leaves as pretentious.
Corn cobs or old Sears/Monkey Ward catalogue pages.
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