JR Kyoto’s Seemingly Permanently ‘Out of Order’ ‘Accessible Toilet’

By Barrier Free Japan

December 21 2023

KYOTO – One of Barrier Free Japan’s places of work in Japan is in Kyoto, and Barrier Free Japan often leaves Kyoto by JR Kyoto Station. One of JR Kyoto Station’s ‘accessible toilets’ has been ‘out of order’ or ‘unavailable for use’ for weeks.

Will people with disabilities and people with children ever get to use the facilities or go to the toilet in JR Kyoto Station ever again? It has been ‘out of order’ (one might suspect more accurately ‘closed’ because people make too much mess, use it to smoke et cetera) for weeks.

And the thing is, Barrier Free Japan can believe that it probably was a mess, but there is a caveat.  Some are people ‘up to no good’, drunk, smoking etc, but people with disabilities sometimes make mess because they are disabled, it’s why it’s a separate room. Barrier Free Japan’s body spasms, and sometimes can’t just stand at a urinal. If an ‘accessible toilet’ were to be closed every time a mess was made, few ‘accessible toilets’ would ever be open.