The 10 Best Places To Pee

THE ( 10BESTPLACES TO PEE NOVEMBER 19 3 YEARS The amount of time, on average, we spend on the toilet. World Toilet Day (make sure you put it in your diary). As we spend so much time on the toilet, it's no wonder then that peeing can be quite a mundane experience for many of us. However, it need not always be a chore. Here's a list of the ten best places to pee. 10 THE HIGHEST PLACE TO PEE Home to some of the highest toilets in the world, Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains on Mont Blanc has specially designed lavatories for use in extreme conditions. These 'dry' toilets are waterless and chemical free, instead utilising a • SAINT-GERVAIS-LES-BAINS worm-composting system. 15,190 FEET 30,000 (4,630 METRES) Visitors a year attempt to climb Mont Blanc ABOVE SEA LEVEL Specially designed toilets near the summit 9 THE PRICIEST PLACE TO PEE One of the toilets at Moon River Art Park in Shanghai, China, is among the most expensive public toilets in the world. It is built within a man-made cave system designed to resemble a grotto. 500,000 |MOON RIVER R ART PARK $600,000 10 Number of visitors Cost to build in its first year TOILET O 8 THE SAFEST PLACE TO PEE ZHONGGUAN Zhongguan Village Plaza, Beijing, China, is home to possibly the safest public toilet on earth. It is bullet proof and resistant to explosives. The toilet is mainly used by tourists. VILLAGE PLAZA $100,000 15 TONNES 500,000 Number of Visitors Cost to build Weight of toilet each year 15 7 THE MOST VICTORIAN PLACE TO PEE The Victorian toilets on the Island of Bute were commissioned in 1899. The gent's lavatory was designed to impress with decorative ceramic tiles and ceramic mosaic flooring. It is considered to be one of the finest examples of its kind in Britain. £503 (£52,400 TODAY) Cost of original fittings 20 URINALS 200,000 People visit the Isle 3 CUBICLES of Bute each year Number of facilities 9 6 THE MOST LUXURIOUS PLACE TO PEE Branson, Missouri, USA, is home to the Shoji Tabuchi Theatre. The ladies room contains a fountain, granite and onyx pedestal sinks adorned with fresh orchids, fixtures of black Italian SHOJI TABUCHI THEATRE marble and gold, and chandeliers that hang from an Empire tin ceiling. The gents is no less impressive, with black lion head sinks, a marble fireplace and a mahogany billiard table. 80,000 1,800 2,000 Fresh violets a month are used to help freshen the air SQÚARE FEET Is the approximate people can be seated in the size of each theatre restroom P) 5 THE MOST ARTY PLACE TO PEE The John Michael Kohler Art Centre in Wisconsin, USA, contains bathrooms featuring art and sculpture by six resident artists, who used Kohler Company technologies and materials to create Kohler Art Centre their unique designs. 100,000 99,000 visitors each year 6 UNIQUE SCULPTED BATHROOMS SQUARE FEET Size of art centre 4 THE MOST PICTURESQUE PLACE TO PEE Boston Bay High Camp, Washington State, USA, offers an outdoor loo with a spectacular view of Johannesburg Mountain, BOSTON BAY HIGH CAMP which resides in the North Cascades National Park. 8,190 FEET 400,000 people a year visit North Cascades National Park Height of Johannesburg LOO WITH A VIEW Mountain 3 THE MOST INNOVATIVE PLACE TO PEE Daimaru department store, part of Tokyo train station's north tower, incorporates some of today's finest toiletry innovations. Features include bidet-style technology with temperature-controlled water, remote control heated, ergonomically contoured seats and a device which plays recordings of the ocean. DAIMARU DEPARTMENT STORE 400,000 15 people pass through Tokyo station each day ODAIMARU up-scale Daimaru Department Stores The number of floors that have across Japan their own bathroom 2 THE MOST SPACIOUS PLACE TO PEE In Ichihara-Shi, Japan, is a flower garden, at the centre of which is a glass-walled cubicle containing a solitary toilet. This patch NCHIANA SHI of land is close to the local train station but is fenced off, making it completely private. 200 300,000 inhabitants SQUARE METRES $125,000 Project cost Size of garden 1 THE LONELIEST PLACE TO PEE Standing on Alaska's Mount McKinley, situated in the Denali National Park, and only reachable by ski plane, the toilet built as part of the Don Sheldon Mountain House in 1966 is one of the most remote toilets in the world. MOUNT 6,000 FEET 5 ACRE BLOCK MCKINLEY 3 OUT OF 12 MONTHS ... are safe to visit ALTITUDE of rock and ice All ten of the best places to pee are free to use, though some are harder to reach than others, but be it a picturesque vista or a heated toilet seat you seek, there's a place to pee like that. SOURCES Mont Blanc dry toilet - architecture.about.com Moon River Bathrooms - www.visual-spaces.com Beijing Bullet Proof Bathroom - www.msn.com Victorian toilets - www.bute.me/victoriantoilets Shoji Tabuchi Theatre - www.squidoa.com Kohler Art Centre - www.travelandleisure.com & www.jmkac.org Boston Bay Camp - www.dailymail.couk Daimaru Ichiharah-Shi flower garden - en.rocketnews24.com Mount McKinley - www.environmentalgraffiti.com Mont Blanc visitor stat - www.alanarnette.com Number of loos on Mont Blanc - www.spiegel.de Moon River Visitors - www.chinadaily.com Beijing tourism - www.travelchinaguide.com Bute visitor figures - www.heraldscotland.com Shoji Tabuchi Theatre - http//shoji.com North Cascaes visitors - www.north.cascades.national-park.com Cost of spacious loo - www.gadling.com Ichihara population - http://en.wikipedia.org Don Sheldon hut visits - www.climbalaska.org Tokyo Station passenger figures - www.jreast.co.jp via Wikipedia Daimaru Stores - www.hoovers.com store - www.noholidaynolife.com & www.travelandleisure.com Better athrooms.com STOREYS