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World's largest public restroom facility opens

Chinese city is flushed with pride at building containing 1,000 toilets

BEIJING They're flushed with pride in a southwestern Chinese city where a recently-opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 32,290 square feet.

Officials in Chongqing are preparing to submit an application to Guinness World Records to have the free four-story public bathroom listed as the world's largest, the state-run China Central Television reported Friday.


"We are spreading toilet culture. People can listen to gentle music and watch TV," said Lu Xiaoqing, an official with the Yangrenjie, or "Foreigners Street," tourist area where the bathroom is located. "After they use the bathroom they will be very, very happy."

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Footage aired on CCTV showed people milling about the sprawling facility and washing their hands at trough sinks. For open-aired relief, there is a cluster of stalls without a roof.


Unique urinals

Some urinals are uniquely shaped, including ones inside open crocodile mouths and several that are topped by the bust of a woman resembling the Virgin Mary.


"Other bathrooms are all the same. This one is very special, I've never seen anything like it," one visitor to the tourist area told CCTV.

There are also plans to build a supermarket nearby, which will sell toilet-related items, CCTV reported.


Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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see...
even eastern nations do stupid things with their money...
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laughing.gif You know, this sounds like a weird thing to consider a luxury, but toilets are not necessarily commonplace in China, Japan, and some other nations of the Orient. When my mom and aunts went to Japan with Grandma, they were apalled to learn that public facilities consisted of nothing more than a flushable trough built into the floor within the restroom stalls. Toilets were usually only found in western establishments like Marriott hotels, etc. Since you had nothing to sit on or hang onto, you had to hope your thighs were strong enough to hold you up long enough. ashamed

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