This New Toilet Won’t Do You Dirty. It Cleans the Entire Bowl and Rim With One Flush
The toilet has been jokingly nicknamed a ‘porcelain throne’, but how often do you feel like a king? Especially when you have to put on gloves and get in there to scrub anything that didn’t get flushed away? In a perfect world, flushing the toilet would get rid of the entire bowl and hard-to-reach rim, along with all your problems, but we all know that’s not the case.
The Aurora Washlet Plus bidet toilet uses new flushing technology to clean the entire bowl and rim in a single flush.
Yet at KBIS 2026Our team spotted a new toilet from Japanese manufacturer Toto, the Aurora Washlet Plus S7A one-piece toilet, which aims to increase bowl cleaning coverage by up to five times compared to standard gravity flush toilet systems. And he intends to do it in one hunt.
How the Aurora Washlet Plus stays clean
At KBIS, Toto unveiled its new integration system within the Aurora Washlet Plus. This is a dual-valve, gravity-driven flush motor that uses a rim wash and siphon jet in sequence to keep your toilet bowl cleaner longer. It also works in concert with Toto’s Tornado-style flush (which the company calls “the best flush in the industry”) and Cefiontect Ceramic Bowl Polish, which prevents mold and grime from sticking, to clean all 360 degrees of your toilet bowl in just one flush.
A diagram showing how the Toto Integravity system works inside the Aurora Washlet Plus toilet.
Sophisticated additional features
In addition to its cleaning capabilities, Toto designed the Aurora Washlet Plus for quiet and efficient water flushing. Per flush, it uses 1.0 or 1.28 gallons of water. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the current federal standard is 1.6 gallons per flush, which means this toilet uses at least 0.32 gallons less per flush.
The Aurora Washlet Plus also has a built-in bidet. If you use a bidet, you know how difficult it can be to keep the bidet wand clean, as well as the toilet bowl. To achieve this, the Aurora Washlet Plus uses an electrolyzed water cleaning agent called Ewater Plus to automatically clean the wand before and after each use, and Premist to spray the bowl before each use to prevent debris from clinging. The stain-resistant Clean Resin material makes it easier for the toilet wand and seat to stay spotless.
The Aurora Washlet Plus is named after the Northern Lights and inspired by its quiet power.
The only setback
The toilets are impressive but you will have to spend a lot of money to get them.
While there’s a lot to like about this toilet, there’s one problem: it costs $3,648 at full price. You can bring that price down to $2,418 if you opt for the Washlet S2 bidet model instead of the Washlet S7A, but you’ll lose some features. Some retailers offer discounts, depending on your location, but paying thousands of dollars for a toilet is still a lot of money. However, as humans, we tend to spend a lot of time in our bathrooms, so if a futuristic toilet can make our time more efficient, it might be worth it.
The future of toilets
Toilet designs like this make us think that there will one day be a future in which we no longer have to clean our own toilets and they will do all the dirty work (literally) for us. This type of feature, especially at a more accessible price point, could transform the bathroom into a space reserved solely for personal care rather than another item to check off our cleaning to-do lists. This is a future we can support.
