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Tokyo visitors can now join a special tour of one of the Japanese city's modern wonders: its public toilets.

东京游客现在可以参加一次特别游览，参观这座日本城市的现代奇观之一：公共厕所。

Penelope Panczuk recently went on the Tokyo Toilet Shuttle for a two-hour visit of artistic public bathrooms.

佩内洛普·潘祖克 (Penelope Panczuk) 最近乘坐东京厕所班车，参观了两个小时的艺术公共浴室。

Panczuk got the idea after seeing "Perfect Days", the Oscar-nominated film about a toilet cleaner in the city's Shibuya district.

潘丘克在观看奥斯卡提名影片《完美的日子》后萌生了这个想法，这部影片讲述了涩谷区厕所清洁工的故事。

"In the U.S. or in France where I originally come from, you just don't go," Panczuk said of using public bathrooms.

“在美国或我的祖国法国，你就别去，”潘丘克在谈到使用公共浴室时说道。

She added that in Tokyo, the bathrooms are "extremely clean, they're very safe and each one is so different it feels like it's a new discovery each time."

她补充说，在东京，浴室“非常干净，非常安全，而且每间浴室都如此不同，感觉每次都是一个新发现。”

The shuttle began in March with visitors coming to Japan in record numbers. A drop in the value of the Japanese yen has made it less costly for many lovers of Japanese culture to visit for the first time.

班车于三月份开始运营，前往日本的游客数量创下了历史新高。 日元贬值使得许多日本文化爱好者首次访问日本的成本降低了。

Among Japan's most-loved technological exports in recent years are its toilets produced by TOTO. The d