UMESHU, HELSINKI

A small review of one special toilet for the celebration of Christmas. Umeshu is a popular sushi restaurant in Töölö, offering decent quality raw fish experiences for sushi lovers. The restroom of the small restaurant offers one of the most harmonic toilet experience the author has encountered so far.

The restroom features one small cubicle and a designated sink area. The floor is made of small round stones, which creates a down-to-earth atmosphere with a bit of a Mediterranean twist.

  

Korhonen Oy has provided the cubicle with a compulsory early 90s touch with this garbage pin next to the toilet seat. In a truly cosmopolitan manner the instruction text is provided with three different languages taking into account the needs of international customers.

After finishing the business on the beautiful raw toilet side of the restroom, the guest is however still about to experience the best part of the facilities; that is the sink area illustrated below. I won't go into too much details as the pictures will speak for themselves.

However one of the coolest items on the whole setting is the faucet, which has a plate on which the water runs, creating a waterfall  like experience to wash hands.

Happy Holidays everyone!

FLUSH & GO, REVISITED

The flushable toilet roll I blogged about earlier, much beloved among the professional toilet visitors, has been selected by overwhelming majority (they say) as the most superfluous product of the year by Finnish Nature magazine (Suomen Luonto). The environmentalist fury that valuable recyclable cardboard, worth of four sheets of toilet paper, is lost every time a flushable toilet paper roll shell is flushed down the drain. The story doesn't tell, but the author would imagine, that the same opponents are equally furious every time an honest toilet visitor goes on conducting his/her business and flushes down the toilet an amount of toilet paper equivalent of 1-8 flushable toilet roll shells. I don't know about the furious opponents, but at least the author wouldn't stand the smell caused by the used toilet paper in the bin. So still convinced, that shitty paper goes down the toilet!

(only in Finnish: )
http://www.suomenluonto.fi/turhake/index.html

Freie Universität, Berlin

A quick review of toilet paper roll storaging at Freie Universität. The university has decided to save some money by using the toilet in a dual role as a storage and as a place to conduct your business. The way toilet paper rolls are stored reminds of my earlier encounter at Karstadt. I sure would prefer the prewarmed rolls above the radiator over the ones on dirty floor.

Too bad none of the rolls had made it way to the holder.