AMAZIAN OF THE WEEK! Seibu Dome
Name: Seibu Dome
Location: Saitama, Japan
Occupation: Home to the Seibu Lions, a professional baseball team in Japan
Known for: Its exquisite toilets. Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched eight years for the Seibu Lions, and when he signed with the Red Sox in 2007, Boston had to fork over $51 mil to the Saitama-based team (another $52 mil went to Dice-K, putting the total cost of acquiring the Japanese pitcher at $103 million). Because Seibu Dome, the Lions’ ballpark, was considered “the worst stadium in Japan,” the organization decided to spend the money earned from that deal on major upgrades to the stadium, which included, most remarkably, installing top-of-the-line TOTO toilets in its restrooms. Each stall in its women’s rooms boasts a $1,500 TOTO Washlet (whose marketing slogan is “Clean is Happy”), which is a toilet and bidet-in-one with a built-in seat warmer. Now, you might think it strange that we named a ballpark AOTW, but if you’ve ever sat on one of these babies (pictured below), and if you’ve spent any time at all in other ballpark bathrooms, you bet your warm, clean ass you’d know why.
[NY Times: Seibu Lions’ Porcelain and Plastic Memorial to Matsuzaka: Plush Bathrooms]
Filed under: Ballparks, Baseball, Boston Red Sox, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Dice-K, Happy Asses, Japanese Baseball, Japanese Toilets, MLB, Seibu Dome, Seibu Lions, Shitters, Stadiums, Toto Toilets, Warm Asses
