Japanese Toilets

I must say a word about Japanese toilets. So there are these 'local' stalls with squat toilets and 'western style toilets' side by side everywhere. But in reality, the western style toilets are not really western style, they are more like toilets out of Star Trek. This picture is actually from some years ago when I stopped at Narita on my way to China, but I wasn't blogging back then, so I give it to you here. I wrote then -

This from Narita airport in Japan - the music note sign reads "Press to play back flushing sound, to muffle toilet sound". Japanese people have to be the most polite people on earth...