Men who pay a visit to the toilet at Kansai International Airport can expect to see a new means of guiding their stream when they aim at the urinal: a 3-centimeter circular "target" pasted at the center of the receptacle. The circular sticker resembling a dart board — complete with a dart in the center bull's eye — was designed by the woman herself. The airport budgeted 65,000 yen to print up 3,000 of the seals, which were promptly applied to the urinals. This sort of labor savings is not to be sniffed at: the airport incorporates 143 lavatory facilities open to the public alone. Cleaning is performed by seven custodial firms that realize combined annual revenues of 1.25 billion yen.

With some 50,000 travelers passing through Kanku on the average day, the toilets are a busy place. The 240 custodians who toil therein make the rounds at intervals of once every one to two hours or so, but have been forced to expend an inordinate amount of their efforts wiping up shots that went astray.

The Asahi notes that this idea is believed to have been pioneered by Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, where men are invited to aim at the image of a fly while relieving themselves.

Via - Japantoday