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YEREVAN, DECEMBER 26, ARMENPRESS:
A Japanese toilet manufacturer has created the world's most valuable loo to please the "god of lavatories", Armenpress reports, citing http://www.wtfnews.org/.
Toilet maker INAX teamed up with an Austrian jeweler to create the toilet - studded with more than 72,000 Swarovski crystals. It is on display in a showroom in Tokyo's posh Ginza shopping district until the end of December, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Kazuo Sumimiya, director of the showroom for the Lixil interior fixture company, said it was created to please the "god of lavatories".
"In Japan, we believe a deity exists in the lavatory. That's why keeping lavatories clean and taking good care of it have been a Japanese custom since long ago," he said. "If we were to sell it, it would probably be worth around 10 million yen (£82,000)."
Visitors admired the dazzling fixture, with one woman saying she'd like to invite her friends to hold a party around it. But Chikako Kawanami, 22, said: "It'd be hard. I don't think I'd feel comfortable enough to use it even if I had this at home."