California
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San Francisco

Fisherman’s Wharf

's most popular destination among travelers, Fisherman's Wharf is the tourist center of the city. Its historic waterfront, once the hub of the city's fishing fleet, is still famous for the depth and variety of its harvest and for having some of the best seafood restaurants in the city, with scenic vistas over San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island.
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  • Type: Neighborhood
  • Description: neighborhood of San Francisco
  • Also known as: “Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Lombard Street and Coit Tower.

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is an east–west street in , California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from east to The Embarcadero.

Scenic viewpoint
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is a 210-foot tower in the neighborhood of , California, overlooking the city and . The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco.

Museum
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is a Balao-class submarine built for the United States Navy during World War II; it is the third U.S. Navy vessel named for the pompano fish.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nob Hill-Russian Hill and Chinatown-North Beach.

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Atop the hills overlooking the bay and bustling downtown are two adjacent neighborhoods famed for their wealth, panoramic views, and the historic cable cars which still climb the steep streets of the area.

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in combines two adjoining neighbors, both of which are among the city's most popular immigrant neighborhoods. Culturally and aesthetically, they could not be more different yet their streets mesh seamlessly together.

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is an area of Downtown , made up of two neighborhoods: the bustling shopping and theater district surrounding Union Square, and the central business district where Market Street meets the bay.

Fisherman’s Wharf

Latitude
37.80813° or 37° 48′ 29″ north
Longitude
-122.41659° or 122° 24′ 60″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
849VRH5M+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11283438662
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
5349374
Wiki­data ID
Q1324280
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Fisherman’s Wharf” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مرسى الصيادين، سان فرانسيسكو”
  • Arabic: “مرسى الصيادين”
  • Arabic: “مرسي الصيادين ‘Fisherman’s Wharf’”
  • Arabic: “مرسي الصيادين، سان فرانسيسكو”
  • Armenian: “Ֆիշերմանս Վորֆ”
  • Basque: “Fisherman’s Wharf (San Frantzisko)”
  • Basque: “Fisherman’s Wharf”
  • Bulgarian: “Фишерманс Уорф”
  • Chinese: “三藩市漁人碼頭”
  • Chinese: “旧金山渔人码头”
  • Chinese: “舊金山漁人碼頭”
  • Dutch: “Fisherman’s Wharf”
  • Esperanto: “Fiŝkaptista Varfo”
  • Finnish: “Fisherman’s Wharf”
  • French: “Fisherman’s Wharf”
  • French: “Quai des pêcheurs”
  • German: “Fisherman’s Wharf”
  • German: “San Francisco/Downtown”
  • Hebrew: “אזור רציף הדייגים”
  • Hebrew: “רציף הדייגים של סן פרנסיסקו”
  • Italian: “Fisherman’s Wharf”
  • Japanese: “フィッシャーマンズ・ワーフ”
  • Japanese: “フィッシャーマンズワーフ”
  • Korean: “피셔맨스워프”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fisherman’s Wharf”
  • Norwegian: “Fisherman’s Wharf”
  • Russian: “Рыбацкая пристань”
  • Slovenian: “Fisherman’s Wharf”
  • Spanish: “Fisherman’s Wharf (San Francisco)”
  • Spanish: “Fisherman’s Wharf”
  • Swedish: “Fisherman’s Wharf”
  • Swedish: “Fishermans Wharf”
  • Turkish: “Fisherman’s Wharf”
  • Ukrainian: “Рибацька пристань”
  • Vietnamese: “Bến Ngư Phủ, San Francisco”
  • Vietnamese: “Bến Ngư Phủ”

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