Restrooms in Shopping malls etc
Public restrooms in parks and green permanent public toilets
PIT STOP-Green permanent public toilets and temporary toilets

Probably you agree that we don’t see many public restrooms in San Francisco, but I think there are more than you think and the number of restrooms are increasing. Here is the list of them for your convenience.

●Downtown: Around Union Square

・Macy’s-first basement floor etc
It’s a department store in front of Union Square.
170 O’Farrell Street

・Nordstrom-first basement floor
It’s a Shopping mall connected to the Westfield.
865 Market Street

・Westfield-first basement floor
865 Market Street
floor map
https://www.westfield.com/sanfrancisco/center-info/map#!/sanfrancisco

・METREON-1st floor
The rest room is behind the food court as seen from the Mission St side on the first floor of the building that has AMC.
789 Mission Street
floor map
https://www.shoppingmetreon.com/directory-map/
→It seems accesses from some countries are blocked.

●PIER 39

・There are restrooms in PIER 39.
(37.809089, -122.409772)
(37.810910, -122.410373)
PIER 39 map
https://www.pier39.com/pier-info/pier-39-map/

●Japan Town

・Japan Center-LOWER LEVEL
Each of WEST MALL and EAST MALL has restroom.
1737 Post Street
floor map
https://japancentersf.com/map/
→Lost link, Can’t find alternative page

●Union Square

・There is a permanent green toilet. Google Map says that it is a paid toilet, but there is also a report in the Internet that says it is free of charge.
(37.787652, -122.407483)

●Embarcadero Plaza

・There is a permanent green toilet.
(37.795746, -122.396687)

●Civic Center

・There is a permanent green toilet managed as PIT STOP you see below.
(37.778806, -122.417026)

●Chinatown

・There is a public restroom in Portsmouth Square. Previously it has a tiled roof, but it has renovated in 2014-2015.
(37.794604, -122.405621)

The following photo is the one before renovation.

●Washington Square

・Washington Square has a public restroom in the park.
(37.801081, -122.410580)

・It also has a permanent green toilet managed as PIT STOP you see below.
(37.800471, -122.409690)

●Fisherman’s Wharf

・There is a restroom in the street where a Subway is located, but it seems that it is necessary to ask the store person for the password and unlock it.
(37.807350, -122.418198)

・It’s near the turntable of the cable car Powell-Mason Line.
There is a permanent green toilet near the turntable of the cable car. Google Map says that it’s a paid toilet.
(37.805241, -122.415136)

・Hyde St. Pier
(37.808610, -122.420982)

●Marina Green

(37.806658, -122.442675)
(37.805699, -122.448264)

●Presidio of San Francisco

(37.801849, -122.456292)
(37.794050, -122.455869)
(37.808598, -122.471077)

●Golden Gate Bridge

・There is a public restroom next to the parking lot at the observatory park on the San Francisco side of the Golden Gate Bridge.
(37.807397, -122.474772)
If you walk across the bridge, it takes about 30 minutes and there is no restroom on the bridge. There is one at the observatory Vista Point just across the bridge, but it seems not very clean.
(37.832938, -122.480467)

●Baker Beach

(37.792538, -122.482999)

●Golden Gate Park

・de Young Museum
(37.771527, -122.468667)

・California Academy of Sciences
(37.769873, -122.466086)

・Golden Gate Park has several public restrooms in the park.
(37.772600, -122.460811)
(37.769826, -122.468662)
(37.766898, -122.468316)
(37.770998, -122.476912)
(37.766405, -122.476705)
(37.769414, -122.493081)
(37.766760, -122.492797)
(37.767981, -122.501776)
(37.767544, -122.507980)

●Ocean Beach

(37.760233, -122.509602)

●Lands End Lookout

(37.784235, -122.501785)

●Alamo Square Park

・Alamo Square Park has public restrooms in the park.
You might go to Alamo Square and see the “Painted Ladies”, which are 19th Century Victorian style houses and are famous as the location for the US drama “Full House”.
(37.776676, -122.433918)
(37.776084, -122.434257)

●Lafayette Park

・Lafayette Park has a public restroom in the park.
(37.791725, -122.428122)

●Alta Plaza Park

・Alta Plaza Park has a public restroom in the park.
(37.791226, -122.438121)

●Mission Dolores Park

・Mission Dolores Park has a public restroom in the park. I see a report on the internet that says it is surprisingly clean.
(37.760784, -122.427677)

The location of PIT STOP are listed on the SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC WORKS website but some of them are in unsafe area, so be careful when you choose the restroom you are going.