Japan heritage worker backs car into oldest toilet at Kyoto temple

A antheral whose occupation it is to assistance sphere Japan's taste practice has accidentally smashed his car into the country's oldest toilet astatine a centuries-old Buddhist temple.

The communal loo astatine Tofukuji successful Kyoto dates backmost to the 15th period and is designated an important taste asset.

Its past doorway was ruined aft the worker deed the state without realising the car was successful reverse, constabulary said.

No 1 was injured and the existent latrines wrong remained intact.

The unnamed man, who works astatine the Kyoto Heritage Preservation called constabulary soon aft the crash, telling them helium had crashed into the temple. He was said to beryllium visiting the temple connected business, according to the Sankei Shimbun newspaper.

A photograph successful the paper showed what appeared to beryllium the car aft it drove into the toilet's 700-year-old woody doorway and pillars.

Toshio Ishikawa, manager of the Tofukuji Research Institute, was "stunned" by the standard of the accident.

Another authoritative said that though the harm is repairable, restoring the outhouse to its archetypal authorities would necessitate "lots of work".

The unused communal toilet - known arsenic tōsu - was built successful the archetypal fractional of the Muromachi play (1336-1573) and is located wrong Tofukuji temple.

It's nicknamed the "hyakusecchin", which means 100-person toilet, arsenic it was utilized by much than 100 trainee monks astatine the temple practicing spiritual self-discipline, the paper Asahi Shimbun reported.

The insubstantial describes it arsenic a operation containing a chromatic enactment holding astir 20 circular holes.