Nob Hill, San Francisco
Nob Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States that is known for its numerous luxury hotels and historic mansions.
Nob Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States that is known for its numerous luxury hotels and historic mansions. Nob Hill has historically served as a center of San Francisco's upper class. Nob Hill is among the highest-income neighborhoods in the United States, as well as one of the most desirable and expensive real estate markets in the country. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the most expensive real estate market per square meter, narrowly beating Monte Carlo, although it has since fallen heavily. It was the only place in the United States so far where market price per square meter exceeded the average yearly salary in the country ($72,400).
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Worth seeing in and around Nob Hill, San Francisco
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.
- 01Transamerica Pyramid
The Transamerica Pyramid Center is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline. Located at 600 Montgomery Street between Clay and Washington Streets in the city's Financial District, it was the tallest building in San Francisco from its completion in 1972 until 2017.
1.1 km · distinctive tower in San Francisco, California, USA · 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.
1.4 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.
2.8 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.
3.6 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.
3.7 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.
1 km · skyscraper · Wikipedia - 07Coit Tower
Coit Tower is a 210-foot tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, overlooking the city and San Francisco Bay. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco.
1.3 km · observation tower · Wikipedia - 08Archdiocese 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.
1.2 km · archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 09Exploratorium
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, technology, and arts in San Francisco, California. Founded by physicist and educator Frank Oppenheimer in 1969, the museum was originally in the Palace of Fine Arts where it founded Pi Day in 1988.
1.7 km · museum in San Francisco · Wikipedia - 10Asian 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.
1.5 km · museum in San Francisco, California · Wikipedia
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Getting to Nob Hill, San Francisco
- Airports
- Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 19 km · San Francisco (SFO), 20 km · Mineta San Jose (SJC), 64 km
- Stations
- San Francisco Ferry Building, 1.9 km
- San Jose → Nob Hill, San Francisco4920 km · quickest by air, 13h 37m · $830–1,270
- Sacramento → Nob Hill, San Francisco119 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · $11–15
- Fresno → Nob Hill, San Francisco261 km · quickest by road, 4h 39m · $24–33
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Nob Hill, San Francisco
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 Nob Hill, San Francisco. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAvoid any street that is also a cable car line (Hyde between Washington and Fisherman's Wharf, Mason between Columbus and Washington, and Jackson/Washington between Powell and Hyde), as the cable cars stop at every intersection, and they usually stop in the intersection.
- Get inAll three Cable Car lines cross at Powell and California.
- Get inThe Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason cable car lines run between Union Square and Fisherman's Wharf.
- Get inThe California cable car line runs east-west on California Street between Market Street in the Financial District and Van Ness Avenue.
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Next door to Nob Hill, San Francisco
Nob Hill, San Francisco is 2 km from San Francisco, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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