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Russian Hill, San Francisco

Russian Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

Russian Hill, San Francisco
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The place

Russian Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It is named after one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Russian 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.

  1. 01
    Transamerica 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.

    1.7 km · distinctive tower in San Francisco, California, USA · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    San 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.

    2.4 km · modern art museum in San Francisco, California, USA · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Oracle 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.

    3.7 km · baseball stadium in San Francisco, California, USA · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    University 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.

    3.8 km · Jesuit Catholic university in San Francisco, California · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    555 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.

    1.8 km · skyscraper · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Coit 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.

    1.2 km · observation tower · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Archdiocese 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.

    1.8 km · archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Exploratorium

    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.

    2 km · museum in San Francisco · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Alamo 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.

    3.1 km · residential neighborhood and park in San Francisco, California, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Asian 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.

    2.4 km · museum in San Francisco, California · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Russian Hill, San Francisco

Airports
Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 20 km · San Francisco (SFO), 21 km · Mineta San Jose (SJC), 65 km
Stations
San Francisco Ferry Building, 2.4 km
  • San Jose → Russian Hill, San Francisco
    4921 km · quickest by air, 13h 39m · $830–1,270
  • Sacramento → Russian Hill, San Francisco
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · $11–15
  • Fresno → Russian Hill, San Francisco
    262 km · quickest by road, 4h 40m · $24–33
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Russian 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 Russian Hill, San Francisco. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: San Francisco/Nob Hill-Russian Hill, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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If you know how people move in Russian Hill, San Francisco – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Russian Hill, San Francisco

Russian Hill, San Francisco is 3 km from San Francisco, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.