San Francisco

Tiburon is just 15 minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge and just 20 minutes all of the attractions of San Francisco. Just steps away from our Tiburon hotel you can catch the Blue and Gold fleet ferry, taking you on a scenic 20 minute trip across the Bay directly to Pier 41 on San Francisco's Fisherman Wharf.

Here are some other San Francisco attractions for you to enjoy:

  • Alcatraz
    The official web site is currently suspended. We link to a site with some information and pictures.
  • AT&T Park
    During the baseball season, home of the San Francisco Giants and a true traditional baseball park experience.
  • Cable Car Museum
    The Cable Car Museum provides historical perspective and insight into the daily operations of today's system.
  • California Academy of Sciences
    Golden Gate Park
    There is a place in San Francisco where you can take a deep sea dive without getting wet and explore the stars in the middle of the day; track wild African animals, explore Wild California, ride an earthquake and travel back 3 billion years in time! It's all under one roof at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. It includes the Steinhart Aquarium, Morrison Planetarium and the Natural History Museum.
  • Chinatown
    Don't miss the nation's biggest Chinatown, complete with restaurants and shops.
  • Coit Tower
    Sitting atop Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower offers panoramic bay and city views, and a bit of San Francisco in the 1930s preserved in its murals.
  • Fisherman's Wharf
    San Francisco's most popular destination. Known for its historic waterfront, delicious seafood, spectacular sights and unique shopping.
  • Ghirardelli Square
    Coated in tradition and history, Ghirardelli Square is one of San Francisco's most treasured landmarks and is home to some of the finest views, galleries, boutiques, culinary treats and special events that San Francisco has to offer.
  • Golden Gate Bridge
    This national landmark will welcome your visit to the city by the Bay.
  • Golden Gate Park
    Visit this wonderful park, which includes a Japanese Tea Garden, a Botanical Gardens, and plenty of spacious park space to stroll and enjoy.
  • Japantown
    With the opening of the Japan Center in 1968, Japantown (Nihonmachi) came into its own as an ethnic showcase in the cosmopolitan tradition of San Francisco. Stretching for three square blocks-bounded by Post, Geary, Laguna, and Fillmore Streets- the complex houses, shops, restaurants, art galleries, movie theatres, Japanese baths, travel services, the deluxe Miyako Hotel, and much more.
  • Lombard Street
    The "Crookedest" Street is neither the crookedest street in San Francisco nor the steepest, but it's surely the best-known. The "crooked" section is the block below Hyde Street.
  • Museum of Modern Art
    One of the world's most innovative museums of modern and contemporary art.
  • Pier 39
    There is something for everyone at Pier 39, one of San Francisco's premier attractions along Fisherman's Wharf. Pier 39 is a festival marketplace with more than 110 stores, 13 bay view restaurants, and a variety of fun-filled attractions for all ages including, the world-renowned sea lions, street performers and live daily entertainment
  • San Francisco Symphony
    Under Michael Tilson Thomas, who assumed his post as Music Director in September 1995, the San Francisco Symphony has won some of the world's most prestigious recording awards, including Japan's Record Academy Award, France's Grand Prix du Disque, Britain's Gramophone Award, and the United States's Grammy for Carmina Burana, Brahms's German Requiem, and scenes from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.
  • San Francisco Zoo
    The largest zoological park in Northern California and one of the Bay Area's most popular cultural and recreational attractions, home to over 250 species of exotic and domestic mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates.
  • Union Square
    Union Square is one of the city's three original parks and is now ringed with elegant shops and hotels. The Powell cable car line begins about a block away, and the theatre district is nearby.