Mission District
The Mission District, commonly known as the Mission, is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California.
The Mission District, commonly known as the Mission, is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. One of the oldest neighborhoods in San Francisco, the Mission District's name is derived from Mission San Francisco de Asís, built in 1776 by the Spanish. The Mission is historically one of the most notable centers of the city's Hispanic community.
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Worth seeing in and around Mission District
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of California, San Francisco
The University of California, San Francisco is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science.
3.4 km · public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California · Wikipedia - 02San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts.
3.3 km · modern art museum in San Francisco, California, USA · Wikipedia - 03Oracle Park
Oracle Park is a ballpark in the South Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States. Since 2000, it has been the home of the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball.
3.4 km · baseball stadium in San Francisco, California, USA · Wikipedia - 04University of San Francisco
The University of San Francisco is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California, United States. Founded in 1855, it has nearly 9,000 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in 59 major programs.
3.5 km · Jesuit Catholic university in San Francisco, California · Wikipedia - 05Chase Center
Chase Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States. It is the home of the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association, Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association, and occasionally for the University of San Francisco men's and women's basketball teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
3 km · indoor arena in San Francisco, California, USA · Wikipedia - 06555 California Street
555 California Street, formerly Bank of America Center, is a 52-story 779 ft skyscraper in San Francisco, California. It is the fourth tallest building in the city as of February 2021, and in 2013 was the largest by floor area.
3.8 km · skyscraper · Wikipedia - 07Archdiocese of San Francisco
The Archdiocese of San Francisco is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States. It was erected in 1853.
2.9 km · archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 08Alamo Square
Alamo Square is a residential neighborhood in San Francisco, California with a park of the same name. Located in the Western Addition, its boundaries are Buchanan Street on the east, Turk Street on the north, Baker Street on the west, and Page Street Street on the south.
2.2 km · residential neighborhood and park in San Francisco, California, United States · Wikipedia - 09Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture is a museum in San Francisco, California that specializes in Asian art. The museum building and its permanent collection are owned by the City of San Francisco.
2.3 km · museum in San Francisco, California · Wikipedia - 10Millennium Tower
301 Mission Street is a high-rise residential building in the South of Market district of downtown San Francisco. A mixed-use, primarily residential high rise, it is the tallest residential building and the 6th-tallest overall in San Francisco.
4 km · tallest residential building in San Francisco · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mission District
- Airports
- San Francisco (SFO), 16 km · Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 18 km · Mineta San Jose (SJC), 62 km
- San Jose → Mission District3401 km · quickest by air, 12h 15m · $650–1,000
- Sacramento → Mission District122 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · $11–16
- Fresno → Mission District260 km · quickest by road, 4h 40m · $24–33
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Mission District
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mission District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inRunning on Market Street is the F-Line Streetcar which stops frequently on its route from the Castro to the Ferry Building, then north on the Embarcadero to Fisherman's Wharf.
- Get inIn addition to the regular ferry service provided to the Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street in the adjacent Financial District, two ferry companies offer special ferry service to Giants home games at Oracle Park: Golden Gate Ferry from Larkspur, and San Francisco Bay Ferry from Alameda, Oakland, and Vallejo.
From Wikivoyage: San Francisco/SoMa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Mission District is 2 km from San Francisco, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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