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Originally Posted by SpongeG
Tokyo stations have great washrooms in all its stations. But washrooms there are on another level, hopefully, these ones will be well kept.
Better than people just peeing or worse wherever they want, I used to work at an office on Columbia across from the station and at a bus stop and often we'd leave out our staff entrance only to find someone peeing in the doorway, one day someone found a pile of something else.
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Well, living in Japan I can first hand tell you why there are so many public washrooms. People in general don't trash / abuse them! So there are minimal upkeep and maintenance costs. You also don't need to spend extra money on anti-criminal / anti-vandalism tactics / deterrents regarding washrooms here, especially outside of Tokyo and Osaka.
For example, right next to my apartment there is a park, and in the park is nice washroom. For context I live in the middle of an urban area of about 200 000 people which is the second node of a greater urban area of around 700 000 people.
In this washroom there is no graffiti, nothing has ever been smashed or broken, and I have never seen any drug use or waste from drug use in or around the washroom. This same washroom could not exist in this state even in urban areas the size of Nanaimo in BC.
So, given the context of Metro-Vancouver, I would argue that public washrooms should only be available at stations that are hubs / major exchanges / destinations where they sadly need to be monitored by staff.