The 49ers representatives got a sign I was going to be a pain after I arrived, and three of my first four questions were about the urinals. Were they communal troughs like Candlestick Park, or individual urinals? Was there a legal reason the troughs weren’t returning? Could I please see the new urinals?

Accompanied by Chronicle sports editor Al Saracevic and tech reporter Benny Evangelista, I took a two hour tour of Levi’s Stadium last week. Al and Benny went mostly for hard-nosed journalistic purposes, while I was there to absorb the potential “fan experience.” My extended family has paid for season tickets continuously going back to Kezar Stadium in the 1950s, and we’re sharing four seats at the new place.

Full disclosure: As a fan, I was disappointed that the 49ers moved away from San Francisco. I worry that the working class vibe that lingered at Candlestick Park in its final years will be gone. I’d trade all of my tomorrows for a single yesterday. That said, I’ve decided to move forward, accept the situation for what it is and allow myself to have a good time in Santa Clara.

Levi’s Stadium makes that a lot easier. I didn’t realize until I saw the new place what a co-dependent relationship we all had with the ‘Stick. Not only did the Levi’s Stadium designers fix the obvious problems, they fixed problems I didn’t even think about, because I had become so accustomed to the Candlestick squalor. I still have concerns. But I’m definitely more excited about watching 49ers games in Santa Clara than I was two weeks ago.

In the gallery above, I’ve listed 15 things that caught my eye. I stipulate that some of them are pretty trivial/random. (That’s sort of my thing.) Our sports and business departments and architecture critic John King will continue more serious non-toilet-centric analysis throughout the summer. Here’s Al Saracevic’s column that ran this weekend.

A few more thoughts below the bathroom …

* This is a dumb thing, but as a kid who grew up on the Peninsula, I am fixated on the stadium’s proximity to the Great America amusement park. (Moffett Field is also visible on a clear day.) You can hear the people screaming on the Top Gun Flight Deck roller coaster from inside the stadium. I’m a little sad the park will be closed during home games.

* After traveling into the area, I’m not convinced that Levi’s Stadium traffic is going to be that much better than Candlestick. The post-game exit strategy reminds me of Oracle/Oakland Coliseum, except the average 49ers game will have 20,000-plus more fans than any Warriors or A’s game. (And I’m guessing BART moves a lot more fans than VTA.) We’ll find out in a few months. I’m predicting a lot of problems, and hoping I’m wrong.

* My number two concern, looking at the stadium, is the heat. Other than the area below the luxury boxes, the stadium wasn’t designed with a ton of built-in shade. I suspect on hot preseason games in August, there will be a lot of people milling in the airport hangar-sized concessions areas on the eastern (exposed to sun) side of the stadium.

* Good news: The fire alarms work fine. They were testing the stadium-wide system while we were touring the facility.

* From the seats, the sight lines look very good. The field wasn’t painted/chalked in when we were there, so it may be deceptive. But the seating orientation reminded me of a larger version of Oracle Arena; the stadium is built vertically, so even when you’re pretty far up in the stands, you feel on top of (not distant from) the action.

* The actual seats are just OK. They’re hard plastic, and when I sat down and closed my eyes they felt no different than the Candlestick seats. So I’ll continue to bring the Berkeley Farms 49ers seat cushion that my (since passed) grandmother passed down to me in the 1980s. I have a feeling it’s going to look out of place.

PETER HARTLAUB is the pop culture critic at the San Francisco Chronicle and founder/editor of The Big Event. He takes requests. Contact him at phartlaub@sfchronicle.com. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/peterhartlaub. Follow The Big Event on Facebook.