When you go to perform the dreaded chore that is cleaning your toilet bowl, you likely notice that simply flushing your toilet isn’t enough to get the rim clean. However, this may soon be a problem of the past.
At KBIS 2026, the CNET team saw a new toilet from Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto, the Aurora Washlet Plus S7A, designed to increase toilet bowl cleaning coverage by up to five times compared to standard gravity-flush toilets.
The Aurora Washlet Plus bidet toilet uses a new flushing technology that cleans the entire bowl and rim in a single flush.
How the Aurora Washlet Plus cleans itself
At KBIS, Toto unveiled its new Integravity System within the Aurora Washlet Plus. 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.
A diagram showing how the Toto Integravity System works inside the Aurora Washlet Plus toilet.
Extra fancy features on this porcelain throne
In addition to its cleaning capabilities, Toto designed the Aurora Washlet Plus to quietly flush with water efficiency. Per flush, it uses 1 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 Plus also has an integrated bidet. If you’re a bidet user, then 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 Plus uses an electrolyzed water cleaning agent called Ewater Plus to auto-clean the wand before and after every use, and Premist to mist the bowl before every 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 Aurora Washlet Plus was named after the aurora borealis and inspired by its quiet power.
The only setback
The toilet is impressive but you’ll have to dump a lot of cash to get it.
While there’s a lot to love about this toilet, there’s one hitch: It costs $3,648 at full price. You can bring that price down to $2,418 if you go with the Washlet S2 bidet model instead of the Washlet S7A, but you’ll lose some features. Certain retailers offer discounts, 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 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.
