The worst things about Japanese public toilets

By Ken Y-N ( July 15, 2012 at 20:33) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

goo Ranking decided to have a look inside Japan?s public toilets and find out what annoys people when they use the facilities.

Demographics

Over the 8th and 9th of June 2012 1,092 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.1% of the sample were female, 10.8% in their teens, 15.8% in their twenties, 28.9% in their thirties, 26.3% in their forties, 10.2% in their fifties, and 8.0% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

I?m very sensitive when it comes to public toilets, so most of these below can cause me to abort my mission. American toilets with the 30 centimetres of free space around floor-level is another pet hate.

As the list below might be a bit traumatic, to calm you down here is Hello Kitty:

Ranking results

Q: What gets you irritated in public toilets? (Sample size=1,092)

Rank	?	Score
1	A dirty bowl	100
2	The last person forgot to flush	98.5
3	An exceptionally strong smell	96.9
4	No toilet paper	94.0
5	A soggy floor	92.9
6	A broken lock	76.0
7	Too few facilities and too long a queue	69.9
8	An overflowing rubbish bin	67.4
9=	A weak flush	65.5
9=	A wet door knob	65.5
11	A toilet roll fallen out of its holder	63.0
12	A flush sensor that won?t sense	57.7
13	A graffiti-covered wall	52.3
14	Wads of toilet paper all around the bowl	51.0
15	Only Japanese squat toilets	50.1
16	A gloomily-lit stall	46.2
17	A unisex toilet	44.6
18	A pay toilet	44.3
19	A back to front toilet paper roll	34.9
20	I want to fix my make-up but all the basins are busy	30.6
21	The warmth from the last customer?s bum	29.0
22	No soap	23.8
23	A lukewarm squirt up the bum	22.5
24=	The lively plopping from the next-door stall	18.5
24=	Too much toilet paper coming out	18.5

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