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About the Spray seat
Spray seat
The spray seat is a product that has a warm water cleaning function for the locality, a drying function, and a seat warming heating function. There is a seat type for installation on a conventional toilet and also an integrated type. From its initial introduction to the Japanese market as a Japanese product in 1967, it has steadily proliferated along with the cleanliness orientation of the Japanese and the advancing age of the population, and is seen as a friendly product for the elderly. The penetration rate of spray seats in Japan exceeded 80% as of March 2016. *1 and has been installed in public facilities such as hotels, airports, and train stations and now even in airplanes. On the other hand, the penetration rate is still low in countries other than Japan and proliferation is expected in the future. "The Spray seat" is also sometimes called a "Bidet toilet" among other names.
*1: Cabinet Office Consumption survey.The figure shows the penetration rate in two-or-more person households in Japan.
The proliferation of Spray Seats (In Japan)
*2: From the Cabinet Office Consumption Survey (Yearly March survey)
