diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 96a884b737..7f8c23f2b6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ build.hooks.vcs.version-file = "src/zarr/_version.py"
 [tool.hatch.envs.test]
 dependencies = [
     "numpy~={matrix:numpy}",
+    "universal_pathlib"
 ]
 extra-dependencies = [
     "coverage",
diff --git a/src/zarr/store/remote.py b/src/zarr/store/remote.py
index db826f456d..15051334e9 100644
--- a/src/zarr/store/remote.py
+++ b/src/zarr/store/remote.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ class RemoteStore(Store):
     supports_listing: bool = True
 
     _fs: AsyncFileSystem
+    _url: str
     path: str
     allowed_exceptions: tuple[type[Exception], ...]
 
@@ -51,9 +52,10 @@ def __init__(
         """
 
         super().__init__(mode=mode)
-
         if isinstance(url, str):
-            self._fs, self.path = fsspec.url_to_fs(url, **storage_options)
+            self._url = url.rstrip("/")
+            self._fs, _path = fsspec.url_to_fs(url, **storage_options)
+            self.path = _path.rstrip("/")
         elif hasattr(url, "protocol") and hasattr(url, "fs"):
             # is UPath-like - but without importing
             if storage_options:
@@ -61,8 +63,11 @@ def __init__(
                     "If constructed with a UPath object, no additional "
                     "storage_options are allowed"
                 )
-            self.path = url.path
-            self._fs = url._fs
+            # n.b. UPath returns the url and path attributes with a trailing /, at least for s3
+            # that trailing / must be removed to compose with the store interface
+            self._url = str(url).rstrip("/")
+            self.path = url.path.rstrip("/")
+            self._fs = url.fs
         else:
             raise ValueError("URL not understood, %s", url)
         self.allowed_exceptions = allowed_exceptions
@@ -71,10 +76,10 @@ def __init__(
             raise TypeError("FileSystem needs to support async operations")
 
     def __str__(self) -> str:
-        return f"Remote fsspec store: {type(self._fs).__name__} , {self.path}"
+        return f"{self._url}"
 
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
-        return f"<RemoteStore({type(self._fs).__name__} , {self.path})>"
+        return f"<RemoteStore({type(self._fs).__name__}, {self.path})>"
 
     async def get(
         self,
diff --git a/tests/v3/test_store/test_remote.py b/tests/v3/test_store/test_remote.py
index 936cf206d9..98206d427f 100644
--- a/tests/v3/test_store/test_remote.py
+++ b/tests/v3/test_store/test_remote.py
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 
 import fsspec
 import pytest
+from upath import UPath
 
 from zarr.buffer import Buffer, default_buffer_prototype
 from zarr.store import RemoteStore
+from zarr.sync import sync
 from zarr.testing.store import StoreTests
 
 s3fs = pytest.importorskip("s3fs")
@@ -16,7 +18,7 @@
 test_bucket_name = "test"
 secure_bucket_name = "test-secure"
 port = 5555
-endpoint_uri = f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/"
+endpoint_url = f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/"
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope="module")
@@ -40,18 +42,33 @@ def get_boto3_client():
 
     # NB: we use the sync botocore client for setup
     session = Session()
-    return session.create_client("s3", endpoint_url=endpoint_uri)
+    return session.create_client("s3", endpoint_url=endpoint_url)
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(autouse=True, scope="function")
 def s3(s3_base):
+    """
+    Quoting Martin Durant:
+    pytest-asyncio creates a new event loop for each async test.
+    When an async-mode s3fs instance is made from async, it will be assigned to the loop from
+    which it is made. That means that if you use s3fs again from a subsequent test,
+    you will have the same identical instance, but be running on a different loop - which fails.
+
+    For the rest: it's very convenient to clean up the state of the store between tests,
+    make sure we start off blank each time.
+
+    https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-python/pull/1785#discussion_r1634856207
+    """
     client = get_boto3_client()
     client.create_bucket(Bucket=test_bucket_name, ACL="public-read")
     s3fs.S3FileSystem.clear_instance_cache()
-    s3 = s3fs.S3FileSystem(anon=False, client_kwargs={"endpoint_url": endpoint_uri})
+    s3 = s3fs.S3FileSystem(anon=False, client_kwargs={"endpoint_url": endpoint_url})
+    session = sync(s3.set_session())
     s3.invalidate_cache()
     yield s3
-    requests.post(f"{endpoint_uri}/moto-api/reset")
+    requests.post(f"{endpoint_url}/moto-api/reset")
+    client.close()
+    sync(session.close())
 
 
 # ### end from s3fs ### #
@@ -65,7 +82,7 @@ async def alist(it):
 
 
 async def test_basic():
-    store = RemoteStore(f"s3://{test_bucket_name}", mode="w", endpoint_url=endpoint_uri, anon=False)
+    store = RemoteStore(f"s3://{test_bucket_name}", mode="w", endpoint_url=endpoint_url, anon=False)
     assert not await alist(store.list())
     assert not await store.exists("foo")
     data = b"hello"
@@ -81,31 +98,51 @@ async def test_basic():
 class TestRemoteStoreS3(StoreTests[RemoteStore]):
     store_cls = RemoteStore
 
-    @pytest.fixture(scope="function")
-    def store_kwargs(self) -> dict[str, str | bool]:
-        return {
-            "mode": "w",
-            "endpoint_url": endpoint_uri,
-            "anon": False,
-            "url": f"s3://{test_bucket_name}",
-        }
+    @pytest.fixture(scope="function", params=("use_upath", "use_str"))
+    def store_kwargs(self, request) -> dict[str, str | bool]:
+        url = f"s3://{test_bucket_name}"
+        anon = False
+        mode = "w"
+        if request.param == "use_upath":
+            return {"mode": mode, "url": UPath(url, endpoint_url=endpoint_url, anon=anon)}
+        elif request.param == "use_str":
+            return {"url": url, "mode": mode, "anon": anon, "endpoint_url": endpoint_url}
+
+        raise AssertionError
 
     @pytest.fixture(scope="function")
     def store(self, store_kwargs: dict[str, str | bool]) -> RemoteStore:
-        self._fs, _ = fsspec.url_to_fs(asynchronous=False, **store_kwargs)
-        out = self.store_cls(asynchronous=True, **store_kwargs)
+        url = store_kwargs["url"]
+        mode = store_kwargs["mode"]
+        if isinstance(url, UPath):
+            out = self.store_cls(url=url, mode=mode)
+        else:
+            endpoint_url = store_kwargs["endpoint_url"]
+            out = self.store_cls(url=url, asynchronous=True, mode=mode, endpoint_url=endpoint_url)
         return out
 
     def get(self, store: RemoteStore, key: str) -> Buffer:
-        return Buffer.from_bytes(self._fs.cat(f"{store.path}/{key}"))
+        #  make a new, synchronous instance of the filesystem because this test is run in sync code
+        fs, _ = fsspec.url_to_fs(
+            url=store._url,
+            asynchronous=False,
+            anon=store._fs.anon,
+            endpoint_url=store._fs.endpoint_url,
+        )
+        return Buffer.from_bytes(fs.cat(f"{store.path}/{key}"))
 
     def set(self, store: RemoteStore, key: str, value: Buffer) -> None:
-        self._fs.write_bytes(f"{store.path}/{key}", value.to_bytes())
+        #  make a new, synchronous instance of the filesystem because this test is run in sync code
+        fs, _ = fsspec.url_to_fs(
+            url=store._url,
+            asynchronous=False,
+            anon=store._fs.anon,
+            endpoint_url=store._fs.endpoint_url,
+        )
+        fs.write_bytes(f"{store.path}/{key}", value.to_bytes())
 
     def test_store_repr(self, store: RemoteStore) -> None:
-        rep = str(store)
-        assert "fsspec" in rep
-        assert store.path in rep
+        assert str(store) == f"s3://{test_bucket_name}"
 
     def test_store_supports_writes(self, store: RemoteStore) -> None:
         assert True