The toilet has jokingly been called a "porcelain throne," but how often does it actually make you feel like royalty? Especially when you have to glove up and get in there to scrub whatever hasn't been washed away when you flush? In a perfect world, flushing your toilet would clear the entire bowl and tough-to-reach rim, along with all your problems, but we all know that isn't the case.

Yet at KBIS 2026, our team spotted a new toilet from Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto, the Aurora Washlet+ S7A One-Piece Toilet, that aims to increase bowl cleaning coverage by up to five times compared to standard gravity-flush toilet systems. And it intends to do it in a single flush.

How the Aurora Washlet+ keeps clean

At KBIS, Toto unveiled its new Integravity System within the Aurora Washlet+. It's a dual-valve, gravity-driven flush engine that uses rim wash and siphon-jet action in sequence to keep your toilet bowl cleaner for longer. It also works in concert with Toto's Tornado-style flushing (which the company calls "the best flush in the industry") and the Cefiontect ceramic bowl glaze, which prevents mold and grime from sticking, to clean all 360 degrees of your toilet bowl in one flush.

Extra fancy features

In addition to its cleaning capabilities, Toto designed the Aurora Washlet+ to quietly flush with water efficiency. Per flush, it uses 1.0 or 1.28 gallons of water. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, the current federal standard is 1.6 gallons per flush, meaning this toilet uses at least 0.32 gallons less per flush.

The Aurora Washlet+ also has an integrated bidet. If you're a bidet user, you know how challenging it can be to keep the bidet wand clean, as well as the toilet bowl. To help with this, the Aurora Washlet+ uses an electrolyzed water cleaning agent called Ewater+ to auto-clean the wand before and after every use, and Premist to mist the bowl before each use to prevent debris from clinging. The stain-resistant Clean Resin material makes it easier for both the wand and toilet seat to stay pristine.

The only setback

While there's a lot to love about this toilet, there is one hitch: it costs $3,648 at full price. You can bring the price down to $2,418 if you go with the Washlet S2 bidet instead of the Washlet S7A, but you'll lose some features.

It looks like discounts are offered at certain retailers, depending on your location, but paying thousands of dollars for a toilet is still a pretty penny. However, as humans, we do tend to spend quite a bit of time in our bathrooms, so if a futuristic toilet can make our time in there more efficient, it could be worth it.

The future of the toilet

Toilet designs like this one make us think that there will one day be a future in which we no longer have to clean our own toilet, and that it will do all the dirty work (literally) for us. This type of feature, especially at a more accessible price, could transform the bathroom into a space for solely self-care rather than another item to check off our cleaning to-do lists. That's a future we can get behind.