Public Restrooms near Union Square, San Francisco
10 restrooms within half a mile of Union Square, covering Powell Street, Market Street and the Yerba Buena side. 7 wheelchair accessible, 5 free.
Restrooms around the square, Powell Street and Market Street
Union Square is San Francisco's shopping and hotel district, with the Powell Street cable car turnaround and the Powell Street BART and Muni station two blocks south on Market Street, and the Yerba Buena museums a few blocks beyond that. The map above opens on the 10 restroom places our data holds within half a mile of the square (a facility mapped as several points counts once). 3 are recorded as open to the public, 5 as free and 7 as wheelchair accessible; 8 have no hours in the data.
The nearest restroom in our data is on Union Square itself, recorded as open to the public, free and wheelchair accessible.
The Hallidie Plaza Pit Stop at Powell and Market
San Francisco Public Works' Pit Stop program provides "clean and safe public toilets" that are "staffed by paid attendants". The Mid-Market list includes Hallidie Plaza, the sunken plaza at Powell and Market Streets beside the cable car turnaround, open daily 7 AM to 7 PM. It is the only Pit Stop within half a mile of the square. The next nearest on the city's list are U.N. Plaza on Market Street (open 24 hours), about two thirds of a mile west, and Embarcadero Plaza (daily 9 AM to 5 PM) at the foot of Market Street, about three quarters of a mile east.
Source: San Francisco Public Works, Pit Stop, read 2026-10-06.
Powell Street station and the stores
Our data records a restroom at Powell Street BART station, marked as free but needing permission to use, which in practice means asking the station agent. BART's own restroom page could not be read when this page was checked, so we do not quote its hours or rules here. The data also records the restroom in the Target store on Mission Street, open 7 AM to 10 PM Monday to Saturday and 8 AM to 10 PM Sunday, which is the latest closing time recorded in this area.
Not checked: whether the department stores and hotels around the square let non-customers use their restrooms. We have left them out rather than guess.
Accessible restrooms and baby changing
Within half a mile of Union Square our data records 7 wheelchair accessible restrooms and 0 with a baby changing table. One entry near Market Street carries the note that the restrooms "are below the stairs and accessible through a set of doors at street level".
Every restroom on the map, nearest first
10 places within half a mile of Union Square, from 12 map points (a facility mapped as several points, such as a men's and a women's room, is one place). Distances are straight-line from the center of the area. Each row shows only what OpenStreetMap records for it, after cleaning: a row without hours or access details means the record has none we could show, not that the restroom is closed or locked. OpenStreetMap data from October 2026.
"Open now" and "Closed now" appear only where OpenStreetMap lists a restroom's opening hours: 2 places here, and 1.7% of the US restroom records we use. Those hours are added by volunteers and may be out of date, and "Hours not listed" means only that no hours are recorded.
- Public restroom 39 yards under a minuteOpen to the publicHours not listedAccessible Free
- Powell Street BART restroom 0.25 mi 5 min walkPermit requiredHours not listedAccessible Free
- Restroom (access not recorded) 0.28 mi 6 min walkHours not listedAccessible Free
- Restroom at Target 0.31 mi 6 min walk
- Indoor restroom (access not recorded) 0.38 mi 8 min walkHours not listedAccessible
- Public restroom 0.38 mi 8 min walkOpen to the publicHours not listedAccessible No baby changing
- Restroom (access not recorded) 0.38 mi 8 min walkHours not listed
- Restroom (access not recorded) 0.39 mi 8 min walkHours not listed
- Restroom (access not recorded) 0.47 mi 9 min walkHours not listedAccessible Free
- Public restrooms 0.49 mi 10 min walkOpen to the publicAccessible Free Gender neutral
Frequently Asked Questions
Are there public restrooms at Union Square in San Francisco?
Our map shows 3 of 10 restroom places recorded as open to the public within half a mile of Union Square, and 5 recorded as free. The nearest in our data is on the square itself. Each entry in the list on this page shows its distance, access and facilities as recorded in OpenStreetMap.
Is there a free public toilet near Powell Street station?
Yes. San Francisco Public Works runs a staffed Pit Stop toilet at Hallidie Plaza, at Powell and Market Streets by the cable car turnaround, open daily 7 AM to 7 PM. Pit Stops are "staffed by paid attendants". Our data also records the Powell Street BART station restroom, which it marks as needing permission (ask the station agent).
Which Union Square restrooms are open late?
Our data records hours for 2 of the 10 restrooms in this area. One, in the Target store on Mission Street, is recorded as open until 10 PM daily. Nothing in the data for this area is recorded as open 24 hours, so for late at night the hotel lobbies and restaurants around the square are the likeliest options, and we cannot vouch for any of them.
Are there wheelchair accessible restrooms around Union Square?
Our data records 7 wheelchair accessible restrooms within half a mile of Union Square and 0 with baby changing. Use the Wheelchair Accessible filter on the map to show only those.
Other areas and tools
Also in San Francisco: Fisherman's Wharf, at the other end of the Powell cable car lines. Search anywhere in the United States with the Restroom Finder, or see the other restroom area pages.
Restroom locations and details from OpenStreetMap under the ODbL license (OpenStreetMap data from October 2026). Pit Stop locations and hours from San Francisco Public Works, as cited above.