South of Market, San Francisco
South of Market (SoMa) is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, so named due to its location south of Market Street.
South of Market (SoMa) is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, so named due to its location south of Market Street. It contains several sub-neighborhoods including South Beach, Yerba Buena, and Rincon Hill.
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Worth seeing in and around South of Market, 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.
2.1 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.
1.3 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.
1.9 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.
2.3 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.
1.8 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.
2.8 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.
1.5 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.
2.9 km · museum in San Francisco · Wikipedia - 10Alamo 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.
2.1 km · residential neighborhood and park in San Francisco, California, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to South of Market, San Francisco
- Airports
- San Francisco (SFO), 18 km · Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 18 km · Mineta San Jose (SJC), 63 km
- Stations
- San Francisco Ferry Building, 2.6 km
- San Jose → South of Market, San Francisco4918 km · quickest by air, 13h 32m · $820–1,260
- Sacramento → South of Market, San Francisco119 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · $11–15
- Fresno → South of Market, San Francisco259 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · $24–33
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No local-transport research exists yet for South of Market, 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 South of Market, San Francisco. 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.
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