What to do in...San Francisco

tigermission1 · Jun 1, 2006

Sishir Chang said:

If you're only their for a few days don't bother renting a car. You can walk to most places in SF or take Muni and BART. If you've never driven on hills, or parked on hills, its going to be a challenge to drive in SF not to mention that with traffic and if you don't know the streets its not always that easy to get around and of course the parking situation. You can take BART to Berkeley and the parking is just as bad in Berkeley.

I second a lot of the places listed. Some other places I would suggest seeing is Golden Gate Park, Japantown the SFMOMA, the Exploratorium and Sutro Baths. These were public baths that collapsed into the ocean but the ruins are pretty cool, the view out over the Pacific is great there, plus there is some pretty good hiking along the cliffs at Point Lobos there with great views of the Golden Gate bridge and Marin headlands. If you want to check out the Golden Gate bridge you can walk across it and you can take a ferry to Sausalito in Marin.

For food there's tons of great food. In addition to what others have suggested I would recommend checking out some of the Tacquerias in the Mission at the Mission and 24th BART stop there are several really good ones.

If you go to Berkeley I would also recommend visiting Oakland. It gets a pretty bad wrap but its a decent city. Oakland Chinatown while not as historic has as good food as SF's but cheaper. I had some of the best Northern Chinese food I've ever had in Oakland Chinatown. The area around the Rockridge BART station at the Oakland / Berkeley border is pretty nice along with Grand Ave. at Lake Merritt. If you're a baseball fan the Oakland Coliseum is a great place to catch a game.

Have a good trip. If you end up going there in early September let me know because I will be in the Bay Area for awhile then and will be happy to show you around if I have time or just have a beer at the Jupiter Brewer near my Alma Mater.
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Will probably be before September, but thanks for the suggestions, sounds like there are a LOT of things to do there, should be a fun challenge to see how many places I can get to see in the limited time I have.

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