The Pickwick Hotel is located 1 block from the famed Cable Car turnaround, the nine story San Francisco Shopping Centre, Nordstroms, and Sony Metreon. 2 Blocks from the Moscone Convention Center and only 3 blocks from Union Square. If shopping is in your blood, start at the San Francisco Centre. Located on Market Street across from the Powell Street cable car turnaround just 1 block from the Pickwick, the centre is a vertical nine-level collection of merchants, with Nordstrom on the top five floors, and 90 other top retailers on the remaining four levels, all connected by spiral escalators. In 2006 the new Bloomingdales will open virtually next door to the Pickwick. The famed San Francisco Cable Car turnaround is at the end of Powell St. at Market just 1 block from the Pickwick. The Powell-Hyde line will take you through to Chinatown, the Cable car Museum, past famed Lombard Street northbound to the waterfront, with Fishermans Wharf to east and Ghirardelli Square to the west. Less than a block from the Pickwick, the Sony Metreon is the first-of-its-kind entertainment center located at Fourth and Mission streets in the heart of downtown San Francisco. This 350,000 square-foot complex features an eclectic mix of the Bays Areas best restaurants, shopping venues, theaters, and entertainment destinations, including the West Coasts largest IMAX theatre. The first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, the San Francisco Museum of Art opened in 1935. Featuring works by Matisse and Brancusi and the photography of Ansel Adams, Man Ray and Mapplethorpe. The Museum is just a short 3 block walk from the Pickwick. San Francisco Chinatown, the largest Chinatown outside of Asia, includes authentic markets and several eateries for the shoestring traveler. Parking here is scarce so consider walking or the cable car. Union Square is just three blocks from the hotel and is bounded by Powell, Post, Stockton, and Geary Streets. The square is one of the top 4 shopping areas by volume in the United States. The square itself is named for a series of violent pro-Union demonstrations that took place at the Beginning of the Civil War.
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