San Francisco Attractions

Bay Area Rapid Transit or BART for short, services the Bay Area with 81 miles of track with about 19 miles of which are underground.

There are 37 stations. The A-line from Fremont to Lake Merritt is 23.4 miles; the M-line from Colma to Oakland West is 16.6 miles; the R-line from Richmond to MacArthur is 10.3 miles; the C-line from Bay Point to Rockridge is 25.3 miles and the RK-line from Rockridge to Oakland West is 5.2 miles.

Trains run from 4 a.m. till midnight and operate every 3 to 4 minutes during rush hour. Approximately 250,000 riders use BART every week.

The Cathedral Hill area in San Francisco is the home of Japan Center and St Mary's Cathedral.

St Mary's Courtyard features scenes depicting the life of Virgin Mary. The original church was completed in 1891.

The Great American Music Hall first opened its doors in 1907 and then again in 1972. This grand nightclub has brough many years of music to the San Francisco area.

The Marina District in San Francisco was created when the tidal marsh was filled for the Exposition of 1915.

The MUNI in San Francisco is the seventh largest public transit system in the U.S. The MUNI has been in operation since 1912 making it the oldest operating streetcar system in the country.

The MUNI has over 700,000 riders a day on average.

Sigmund Stern Grove is a natural amphitheater in the midst of conifer and eucalyptus woods.

On Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. from mid June to mid August free musical events are put on here - concerts, operettas, musicals and the occasional opera and ballet. They are hugely popular and can be thoroughly recommended.

Pine Lake Park, close by, is a good place for picnics.

The Fillmore began as an Italian-style dance hall in the early 1900s, which included Wednesday night socials and masquerade balls. In the 1960s, it was host to bands such as the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. After a period as a private club, the Fillmore is now a rock-and-roll venue again that can hold 1,199 guests.

Theatre of Yugen works primarily from the 700-year-old Japanese forms of theater: Noh and Kyogen. Yugen works with modern Japanese and experimental fusion works.