What are the best things to do in san francisco?

there's the typical tourist things like riding the cable car, pier 39 and visiting alcatraz.



also try:

shopping on haight street

smoking a bowl on hippy hill

bloody mary at zeitgeist

dinner at asia sf

take the ferry to sam's in tiburon

hit the triangle in the marinaWhat are the best things to do in san francisco?
Sites - The Golden Gate Bridge; Golden Gate Park; The DeYoung Museum; MOMA; Fisherman's Warf (Overrated); Haight-Ashbury; Union Square; Legion of Honor; The Zoo; Stinson Beach; Pac Bell Park; China Town; North Beach.



Restaurants - Culibri's (Union Square); Asia SF (Best Drag Queens and Sushi); Park Chow (Inner Sunset); Bocce Cafe (North Beach); Cha Cha Cha's (Haight-Ashbury); MoMo's (Pac Bell Park); Pluto's (North Beach/Fisherman's Warf); Tommy Toy's (Downtown); The Eastern Garden (China Town).



Bars - The Bucaneer or Zeitgeist (Nob Hill, Best Dive); Balboa Cafe (The Marina, owned by the Mayor!); Element (City Center, Best Scene); Kel's orThe Irish Bank(North Beach and Downtown, Best Pub); Vino Venue (Downtown, Best Wine); The Snow Drift (Pac Bell, Younger Crowd).What are the best things to do in san francisco?
have fun, go to the beach! relax , go crazy and then have a good sleep
Walk across the Goldengate Bridge

Go to Fisherman's Warf

Ride a Cable car

Go and check out Alcatraz

Walk up/down Lombard street

Go see Haight Ashbury

Go to Berkley

These are some of the most obvious tourist things to do, but they're still fun.What are the best things to do in san francisco?
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Oh My!! this is a hard question!!! If you get a chance, maybe a week before you go, see if you can get ahold of the Datebook section from the San Francisco Chronicle.



The cable cars, Pier 39 (don't forget the Sealions) the old sailing ships, people watching, a boat ride out on the bay...and take the public ferry system, you get to combine people watching AND a boat ride. A walk across the Golden Gate bridge at sunset, but take a jacket, it can get windy. The Stribling Aboretum, have tea in the Japanese Garden there. Yes, go to Haight-Asbury, but be carefull after dark! Golden gate Park is nice on Sunday afternoon, it is closed to vehicles. WHICH reminds me...don't hire a car and try to find a parking space in San Francisco, what you do is buy a Muni "Fast Pass", that way you can ride the regular bus system AND the cable cars at a MUCH cheaper price.



AND if you are there on a Sunday, go down to the Marina District, get on Bus # 76, take it over across the Golden Gate Bridge, into the Marin Headlands, ask the driver to drop you off close to the Marine Mammal Rescue Center, and go in and see all the good work these folks do...don't forget to buy some sort of 'thingy' before you leave, all the money is used to help the "resident patients".



Chinatown, Mission District, Castro....every little "section' of San Francisco has little interesting "nuggets'. BEFORE you go, get to a local library and read, read, read about both things to do in SF and about the history of the city itself, it will help you enjoy it that much more!



Have fun and enjoy yourself!!!What are the best things to do in san francisco?
Go to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Very cool, and go to the top floor! China Town is fun, and see if there are any outdoor concerts going on. Have fun.
SF is surely charming, and when u see it from across the tousled waters of the bay or from atop one of its impossible hills. its hard to imagine any other american city looking so dam attractive.

it has row upon of gorgeously restored victorian homes , acres of forested urban parks and long sandy strands offering picture - postcard view or the brick - red golden gate bridge.



union square

leads olks to union square, whose centerpiece is a spacious granite plaza dominated by the 97ft high dewey monument , folk art international building , the city's only frank lloyd wright building. powell buskers and tourists lined up at the cable car turnaround. san fransisco's theater district lies immediately southwest of union sq



civic area

asian art museum

main library

city hall

war memorial opera house





Soma - south market

south of market , refers to the vast , largely industrial area from market st to china basin. hot nightclubs brings section to life after dark.

yerba buena garden

S.F museum of modern art

cartoon art museum

california academy of sciences



china town

portsmouth square

chinese historical society of america museum



north beach

washington square

coit tower
As a local San Franciscan, my favorite thing to do is hang out in Union Square, hang out on the steps and people watch. In minutes, you'll see a mixture of tourists and locals, sometimes you can catch a free concert or art show.
besides sex and drugs?
you have to go to alcatrez, embarcadero street where the warf is and where ghiradelli square is, def go to the ghiradelli shop, and castro street