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Downtown, Civic Center & SoMa
Top Sight - Ferry Building
Top Sight - Asian Art Museum
Top Sight - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sights
Eating
Drinking & Nightlife
Entertainment
Shopping
Sports & Activities
San Francisco by Cable Car
Downtown, Civic Center & SoMa
FINANCIAL DISTRICT & JACKSON SQUARE | UNION SQUARE | SOMA | CIVIC CENTER & THE TENDERLOIN
Neighborhood Top Five
1Ferry Building Grazing the Northern California food scene with incredible bay views at this showcase for the Bay Area’s food purveyors and organic farmers.
2San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Getting lost in mesmerizing installation art at the new triple-sized SFMOMA – and discussing it over museum-quality meals at In Situ.
3San Francisco Symphony Watching impresario Michael Tilson Thomas conduct Beethoven from the tips of his toes at the Grammy-winning symphony.
4Asian Art Museum Seeing all the way across the Pacific via the museum’s priceless treasures.
5Embarcadero Wandering south for daytime people-watching, sneaking peeks at Giants games, and getting dazzling nighttime views of the Bay Lights.
Explore Downtown, Civic Center & SoMa
The cluster of monumental stone buildings and plazas around City Hall is called Civic Center. Start your day at the Asian Art Museum, then take your pick of dozens of local food stalls at Heart of the City Farmers Market or the Twitter building marketplace. North and east of Civic Center is the less-than-savory Tenderloin, which most first-time visitors are advised to skip – though adventurous gallery-goers brave Market St between 8th and 6th for groundbreaking arts nonprofits. Hop the F l...
Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to San Francisco
- San Francisco’s Top 10
- What’s New
- Need to Know
- Top Itineraries
- If You Like…
- Month By Month
- With Kids
- Eating
- Drinking & Nightlife
- Entertainment
- LGBTIQ+
- Shopping
- Sports & Activities
- Neighbourhoods at a Glance
- The Marina, Fisherman’s Wharf & the Piers
- Downtown, Civic Center & SoMa
- North Beach & Chinatown
- Nob Hill & Russian Hill
- Japantown, Fillmore & Pacific Heights
- The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
- The Castro
- The Haight & Hayes Valley
- Golden Gate Park & the Avenues
- Day Trips from San Francisco
- Sleeping
- Understand San Francisco
- San Francisco Today
- History
- Literary San Francisco
- Visual Arts
- San Francisco Music
- San Francisco Architecture
- Transportation
- Directory A–Z
- San Francisco Maps
- Behind the Scenes
- Our Writers