Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in San Francisco, United States

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 11 sights
Distance 6.9 km
Ascend 240 m
Descend 286 m

Explore San Francisco in United States with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in San FranciscoIndividual Sights in San Francisco

Sight 1: Japan Center

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Japan Center

The Japan Center is a shopping center in the Japantown neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened in March 1968 and was originally called the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center. It is bounded by Geary, Post, Fillmore, and Laguna. The mall itself is composed of three mall buildings; from west to east, they are the Kinokuniya Mall, Kintetsu Mall, and Miyako Mall. Anchor tenants include Books Kinokuniya and Sundance Kabuki Cinema.

Wikipedia: Japan Center (San Francisco) (EN)

999 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 2: Lafayette Park

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Lafayette Park is an 11.49 acres (4.65 ha) park in San Francisco, California, United States. Originally created in 1936, it is located in the neighborhood of Pacific Heights between the streets of Washington, Sacramento, Gough, and Laguna. Located on a hill, the park offers views of many areas, including the city's Marina district, Alcatraz Island and the San Francisco Bay, Buena Vista Park, and Twin Peaks. In addition to both open and treed green spaces, the park includes two tennis courts, a children's playground, an off-leash dog area, restroom facilities, and a picnic area.

Wikipedia: Lafayette Park (San Francisco) (EN)

417 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Haas-Lilienthal House

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Haas-Lilienthal House

The Haas–Lilienthal House is a historic building located at 2007 Franklin Street in San Francisco, California, United States, within the Pacific Heights neighborhood. Built in 1886 for William and Bertha Haas, it survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire. The Victorian era house is a San Francisco Designated Landmark and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It was converted into a museum with period furniture and artifacts, which as of 2016 received over 6,500 visitors annually.

Wikipedia: Haas–Lilienthal House (EN), Website

1546 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 4: Lombard Street

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Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero. Most of Lombard Street's western segment is a major thoroughfare designated as part of U.S. Route 101. The famous one-block section, claimed to be "the crookedest street in the world", is located along the eastern segment in the Russian Hill neighborhood. It is a major tourist attraction, receiving around two million visitors per year and up to 17,000 per day on busy summer weekends, as of 2015.

Wikipedia: Lombard Street (San Francisco) (EN)

530 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Feusier Octagon House

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The Feusier Octagon House is an historic octagonal house built in c. 1857, and located in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

Wikipedia: Feusier Octagon House (EN)

604 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 6: Club Fugazi

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The Club Fugazi is a small theater and nightclub located in the North Beach district at 678 Green Street, San Francisco, California.

Wikipedia: Club Fugazi (EN), Website

401 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: City Lights Booksellers

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City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected titles related to San Francisco culture. It was founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin. Both the store and the publishers became widely known following the obscenity trial of Ferlinghetti for publishing Allen Ginsberg's influential collection Howl and Other Poems. Nancy Peters started working there in 1971 and retired as executive director in 2007. In 2001, City Lights was made an official historic landmark. City Lights is located at 261 Columbus Avenue. While formally located in Chinatown, it self-identifies as part of immediately adjacent North Beach.

Wikipedia: City Lights Bookstore (EN), Website, Opening Hours, Youtube

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Sentinel Building

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Columbus Tower, also known as the Sentinel Building, is a mixed-use building in San Francisco, California, completed in 1907. The distinctive copper-green Flatiron style structure is bounded by Columbus Avenue, Kearny Street, and Jackson Street; straddling the North Beach, Chinatown, and Financial District neighborhoods of the city. Much of the building is occupied by film studio American Zoetrope, and the ground floor houses a cafe named after the company. The Sentinel Building is listed as San Francisco Designated Landmark No. 33.

Wikipedia: Columbus Tower (San Francisco) (EN)

759 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 9: Coit Tower

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Coit Tower is a 210-foot (64 m) 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. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2008.

Wikipedia: Coit Tower (EN), Website

941 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 10: Exploratorium

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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 located in the Palace of Fine Arts and was relocated in 2013 to Piers 15 and 17 on San Francisco's waterfront.

Wikipedia: Exploratorium (EN), Website

505 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 11: Santa Rosa

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Santa Rosa was a Steel Electric-class ferry built in Alameda, California, for Northwestern Pacific Railroad. She started out serving Southern Pacific Railways on their Golden Gate Ferries line on San Francisco Bay.

Wikipedia: Ferryboat Santa Rosa (EN)

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