Japanese poop museum turns bodily function into a ‘cute’ and fun exhibition for children and adults alike
- Poop-shaped erasers and scatological jokes have long been popular in Japan, but the ‘Unko’ museum has taken ‘number twos’ to a whole new level
Japan’s culture of cute makes no exceptions for poop. It gets a pop twist at the Unko Museum in Yokohama near Tokyo.
Here, the poop is artificial, nothing like what would be in a toilet, and comes in twisty ice cream and cupcake shapes, in all colours and sizes.
“The poops are colourful and come out nicely in photos,” said Haruka Okubo, a student visiting part of the museum devoted to all-important selfies. “The shape is so round and cute.”
Visitors to the museum get a short video introduction and then are asked to sit on one of seven colourful, non-functional toilets lined up against the wall.
Music plays as a user pretends to poop, then a brightly coloured souvenir “poop” can be collected from inside the toilet bowl, to be taken home after the tour.