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(San Francisco, California (CA), USA, US)



San Francisco in California is a spectacular peninsula that is surrounded by water on three sides and San Francisco grows from the inside out. The modern city of San Francisco is visually spectacular, with many world-famous steep hills offering incredible views of San Francisco Bay. San Francisco is one of America's favorite cities and is full of major attractions and landmarks.

There are several excellent tourism and tourist information offices in San Francisco offering detailed information about all the main tourist attractions and San Francisco itself, including information on restaurants, city travel, maps, tourism, sightseeing and much more besides.




Accommodation in San Francisco can be a little expensive, but there are certainly a large number of hotels to choose from. There are also some excellent value hotel deals to be found, even in the heart of San Francisco, particularly when you book in advance. Weekend reservations are necessary several weeks in advance when staying at San Francisco.

San Francisco is regularly classed as one of the top tourist destinations in the world and it is easy to see why. With top attractions such as the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge - which opened in 1937, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world, Alcatraz island - the 'Rock in the Bay' which was once the most notorious prison in the whole world, housing some of America's most dangerous offenders, Pier 39 on Fisherman's Wharf - a lively bay area with numerous shops, arcades, seafood restaurants, cafés, fairground rides, ocean views and its own colony of sea lions, Lombard Street - probably the world's most bendy street, and of course the famous San Francisco cable cars, which provide cheap and easy access to the whole of San Francisco. More information about San Francisco tourist attractions...

There are also many great museums in San Francisco, with a wealth of information about the city itself and exhibiting many interesting collections, such as the Museum of the City of San Francisco - established in 1991 and telling the interesting story of the San Francisco's history, and the unusual Fortune Cookie Museum - a small fortune cookie factory producing over 20,000 fortune cookies a day in the city where fortune cookies were invented. San Francisco can also boast numerous excellent art galleries, shopping districts and restaurants. In fact, when it comes to food there are almost 4,500 different restaurants, cafés and bars in San Francisco, which is the nation's trendsetter when it comes to food.

Another major San Francisco tourist attraction is the Hakone Japanese Tea Garden, situated in San Francisco's vast Golden Gate Park. These traditional Japanese gardens provide the most tranquil place in the whole of San Francisco city and cover around five acres, with koi carp ponds, pagodas, drum bridges and a Japanese Tea Room, these exquisite gardens in San Francisco are well worth a visit.

San Francisco's climate is general mild and very sunny, in spite of the famous San Francisco fog. The city of San Francisco is a lively and friendly Californian city, with some highly developed areas, including tall skyscrapers, and contrasting, more traditional districts, such as Chinatown, home to one of the largest Chinese communities outside of Asia. The cosmopolitan city of San Francisco is diverse, open minded, exciting and most of all, enjoyable.

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More San Francisco Information / Fast Facts and Orientation

• Country: USA
• Location: San Francisco County, California (CA)
• Status: city, county seat
• Area: 50 square miles / 127 square kilometers
• Population: 785,000
• Language: American English
• Currency: US Dollar (USD)
• Time zone: GMT - 8 hours Pacific Standard Time (daylight saving time is observed)
• Country dialing code: +1
• Telephone area code: 415
• Religion: various religions
• Electricity: 110 volts AC, 50 Hz - flat two-pin plugs or third round pin are used
• Average daily January temperature: 13ºC / 55ºF
• Average daily July temperature: 19ºC / 66ºF

 
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