Shibuya · Harajuku · Yoyogi / PLACE
Haru-no-Ogawa Community Park — THE TOKYO TOILET
Shigeru Ban’s park toilet uses coloured glass and locking to address checking before entry and privacy during use.
Ban asks one glass wall to allow checking while vacant and privacy in use. Compared with Ito’s three separate structures, it is another way to make a boundary.
Visit fitFor a short park stop to see how glass and locking address cleanliness and privacy.
Coloured-glass boxes separate men’s, women’s and multipurpose facilities; the multipurpose room includes ostomate equipment.
Coloured-glass boxes line the park path; the multipurpose cubicle includes ostomate equipment.
Image info
Satoshi Nagare · resized and croppedGlass, cleanliness and privacy
Shigeru Ban began with two uncertainties about a park toilet: whether it is clean and whether somebody is inside. His design uses glass intended to be transparent when vacant and opaque when locked around separate men's, women's and multipurpose facilities. The latter includes ostomate equipment. The wall is meant to allow checking before entry and privacy during use.
The design photographs do not establish its condition on your visit. Do not plan around seeing the glass transparent; follow the current on-site notices. The coloured glass and simple boxes beside the park path remain the exterior features; do not test a cubicle's lock just to see the effect.
This is a working public toilet at 5-68-1 Yoyogi. A short exterior look can accompany a park walk. The nearby Haru-no-Ogawa Playpark is a separate staffed facility with its own hours and Thursday/seasonal closures: access to the toilet does not establish that the playpark is open.
WHERE · On foot from here
How far from the station, and which side
North-east of Yoyogi-Hachiman Station, about 250 m in a straight line from the station area. The mark is a verified point, not the entrance. The shaded areas are about 5 and 10 minutes on foot from here.
Walking bands are computed by FOW on the OpenStreetMap surface street network at 80 m/min and drawn as a smoothed approximate area around the streets reached. They ignore exit positions, station interiors, underground passages, signals, slopes and routes inside buildings — not directions; follow on-site signs.
Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Walking bands: computed by FOW · Station and gate notes: official guidance (2026-10-16)
Before you go
- Hours and fees
- A public toilet at 5-68-1 Yoyogi. Follow on-site use and maintenance notices. Haru-no-Ogawa Playpark has a separate timetable.
- Good to know
- Follow on-site use and maintenance notices; do not test cubicle locks or photograph users.
Sources · image info
- https://tokyotoilet.jp/en/tokyotoilet.jp · as of 2026-10-06
- https://www.oneclub.org/awards/theoneshow/-award/47891/the-tokyo-toilet/www.oneclub.org · as of 2026-10-06
- THE TOKYO TOILET — project and facility captionstokyotoilet.jp · as of 2026-10-19
- Haru-no-Ogawa Community Park — THE TOKYO TOILET — Satoshi Nagare · resized and cropped