Home electronics retailer Yamada Holdings has said it will sell a human washing machine, which attracted attention at the Osaka Expo, at its flagship store in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district.
A demonstration unit of the Mirai Human Washing Machine will be displayed at the store starting Dec. 25, with an experience corner, Yamada Holdings said Wednesday.
The company has not decided when it will start selling the product. The price is expected to be ¥60 million, it said.
The human washing machine was developed by Osaka-based Science, which produces products using technology that generates fine bubbles.
By simply lying down in a 2.3-meter-long capsule, the bather is washed by the machine with microbubbles and a fine mist shower, with the whole process, including drying, completed in about 15 minutes.
Sensors monitor a bather’s health during use, while the machine provides relaxing visuals and music.
More than 40,000 applications were submitted for the bathing experience at the expo, which ended in October.
“We want people who could not visit the expo to experience this technology,” Science Chairman Yasuaki Aoyama said at a news conference Wednesday.
AloJapan.com