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Toilet signs at Haneda International Airport. (© Jiji Press)
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Toilet signs at the Hotel Gajoen Tokyo. With its traditional gardens and elegant setting, this hotel is often compared to Ryūgū-jō, the undersea palace of Japanese folklore. Pictograms of simplified human figures in pants and skirts would be inappropriate to this setting of timeless elegance.
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Tokyo’s Kōenji district is famous for its summer awa odori dance festival. The toilets at the Kōenji train station show male and female dancing figures. The banner photo shows the entranceway to the public toilets under the elevated Kōenji Station train tracks. Here, too, male and female dancing figures are depicted with no signs indicating that they mark a public toilet entrance.
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The gender-neutral sign at the Hotel Granvia Kyoto. (© Jiji Press)
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The Japan Sanitary Equipment Industry Association’s standard pictograms for toilet operation panels.
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A children’s toilet sign discovered at Narita International Airport. Playful signs like this have a special appeal.
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