Most Expensive Toilets in the World

Written by: jeremy Filed Under: Art, Luxury, World on March 16th, 2008

If someone were to say, “I just bought a Toto,” you might think they’d purchased a little black Terrier and named it after the Wizard of Oz costar. They could, on the other hand, be the proud owner of one of the world’s most expensive toilets.

Toto Neorest 600 – $5,000

World’s most expensive toilet

What more do you need, when doing your business, than your standard lavatory offers? Toto’s most expensive toilet, the Neorest 600, has a wide range of features to answer that question. For starters, the lid automatically opens whenever you approach the toilet. As soon as you rise from your state of the art porcelain throne, it automatically engages its Power Catalytic Air Purifier function. Six seconds after you’re out of range of the toilet’s sensor zone, it will automatically flush and close both the lid and the seat.

For those functions that aren’t automatic, there’s a wireless remote control. A button-press can open, close or warm the seat, change the water temperature, perform a powerful “Cyclone flush” instead of the automatic light flush or control the Washlet functions you’ll use to tidy yourself up after using the expensive toilet.

Hang Fung Gold Toilet – around $5 million

World’s most expensive toilet

This 24k gold toilet is a feature of Hang Fung jeweler’s solid gold bathroom in Hong Kong. The company had the toilet made when gold was merely $200 per ounce and planned to melt it down if gold ever reached $1,000 per ounce. When the price of gold neared the $1,000 mark in early 2008, however, the company stated that they would not have it melted down. One ton of the golden bathroom accessories surrounding the toilet would be melted down instead.

Moon River Art Park Toilet – $600 million

A toilet hidden in a cave in Shanghai’s Moon River Art Park cost 5 million yuan to build. The cave is manmade and decked out like a grotto. While entry to the park costs 30 yuan, using the toilet is free. It may be difficult to get in, though. Toilet cleaners reported people waiting in line up to two hours when the toilet was first opened in 2005.

International Space Station Toilet – $19 million

Most expensive toilet ever built

What may just be the most expensive toilet ever built isn’t the world’s most expensive toilet. That’s because it’s being launched into space! The toilet system NASA had built by Russia was delivered to the international Space Station in November 2008. The system, the same as the one in place on the Russian side of the station, recycles urine into water. It will replace a toilet system that has broken twice in 2008.


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  1. Posted by feniksas 1st April, 2008 at 6:51 am

    Shanghai’s Moon River Art Park toilet only costed $6 million USD not 600 million.

  2. Posted by Bloody Mary 29th November, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    What’s the point of changing the water temperature?

  3. Posted by Debt Consolidation 26th January, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    When Nasa said that its toilet on the international space station turns urine into water, I hope they do not mean drinking water. At a price tag of 19 million, that is absolutely ridiculous.

  4. Posted by rommel 21st April, 2009 at 1:04 am

    On NASA – turning urine to drinking water – that is not ridiculous at all considering there are no water sources in space so you need to recycle everything.

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  6. Posted by gez 11th June, 2009 at 8:57 am

    lol wts da point of a gold leaf toilet

  7. Posted by Samantha 17th August, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    # Posted by Bloody Mary 29th November, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    What’s the point of changing the water temperature?

    Do you want icy, cold water blasted at you in the middle of the winter or hot water in 90 degree weather? Although I think I thought the same thing when I first got a Neorest 500.

  8. Posted by your mother 28th August, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    We’re in a bad economy, yet they go out and spend 19,000,000 dollars on a toilet. Nice job, Government.

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