Market Street
Market Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. It begins at The Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building at the northeastern edge of the city and runs southwest through downtown, passing the Civic Center and the Castro District, to the intersection with Portola Drive in the Twin Peaks neighborhood.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Tram stop
- Description: thoroughfare in San Francisco, United States
- Also known as: “5th Street”, “Market St San Francisco”, “Market St, San Francisco”, “Market Street & 5th Street”, “Market Street San Francisco”, “Market Street, San Francisco”, and “San Francisco, Market Street”
- Wheelchair access: no
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Powell Street station and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Powell Street station
Railway station
Photo: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0.
Powell Street station is a combined BART and Muni Metro rapid transit station in the Market Street subway in downtown San Francisco. Located under Market Street between 4th Street and 5th Street, it serves the Financial District neighborhood and surrounding areas. Powell Street station is situated 430 feet northeast of Market Street.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum
Photo: Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is situated 2,300 feet east of Market Street.
Old Mint Building
Heritage site
Photo: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Old San Francisco Mint is a building that served as the location of the San Francisco branch of the United States Mint from 1874 until 1937. The building is one of the few that survived the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fire. Old Mint Building is situated 500 feet southeast of Market Street.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tenderloin and Civic Center-Tenderloin.
Tenderloin
Quarter
The Tenderloin is a neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, in the flatlands on the southern slope of Nob Hill, situated between the Union Square shopping district to the northeast and the Civic Center office district to the southwest.
Civic Center-Tenderloin
Photo: Almonroth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
As the name implies, the Civic Center is the primary center of government within San Francisco, housing many important civic institutions. Aside from its official duties, it also moonlights as a cultural center with many fine museums, theaters, opera houses, and symphony halls located here.
Market Street
- Categories: thoroughfare, railway stop, transport stop, and transportation
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.78386° or 37° 47′ 2″ northLongitude
-122.40823° or 122° 24′ 30″ westElevation
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
849VQHMR+GPOpenStreetMap ID
node 6315233974OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=tram_stopOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=no
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Market Street” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماركت ستريت”
- Bulgarian: “Маркет”
- Catalan: “Market Street”
- Chinese: “孖結街 (三藩市)”
- Chinese: “孖結街”
- Chinese: “市场街”
- Chinese: “市場街 (三藩市)”
- Chinese: “市場街”
- Dutch: “Market Street”
- French: “Market Street”
- German: “Market Street”
- Japanese: “マーケット・ストリート (サンフランシスコ)”
- Japanese: “マーケット・ストリート”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Market Street”
- Norwegian: “Market Street”
- Persian: “خیابان مارکت (سانفرانسیسکو)”
- Persian: “خیابان مارکت”
- Russian: “Маркет улица”
- Russian: “Маркет-Стрит”
- Spanish: “Market Street”
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