Financial District in San Francisco

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Battery at Calif. Sts 180°

343 Sansome St. W. 140°

343 Sansome St. E. 200°

1 Embarcadero Center 360°

2 Embarcadero Center 360°

3 Embarcadero Center 360°

4 Embarcadero Center 360°

Hyatt Regency lobby

The multi-story lobby at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at Embaracadero Four is large enough to easily accomodate many trees, an indoor stream, a restaurant, bar, lounge and meeting areas, a fountain and twenty foot diameter sculpture in addition to the glass walled elevators that soar all the way to the top floor, and serve as moving sculptures for guests on the ivy draped walkways outside their suites.

Ranked as one of the top four financial centers in the nation, San Francisco’s Financial District begins at Montgomery Street and extends east toward the Embarcadero and Embarcadero Center where you can find eight blocks of shops and restaurants.

Jackson Square, with many buildings erected in the early 1850’s, and the only survivors of the 1906 earthquake and fire, is a short walk from Embarcadero Center on the edge of the Financial District.

Ride the California Cable Car all the way through China Town and over Nob Hill to Van Ness Avenue or transfer to the Powell-Mason line to go south to Union Square or north to Fisherman’s Wharf.

Use your San Francisco CityPass for seven days of unlimited travel on streetcars, cable cars and all MUNI vehicles in addition to entrance to five popular attractions.

The Bank of America building at 555 California street was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River from 1969-1972 until it was surpassed by the Transamerica Pyramid.

A 17th floor roof top park at 343 Sansome Street has great views of other Financial District highrises including the Transamerica Pyramid.

If you don’t work in a highrise building, or if you spend your days several floors up but don’t have an office with a view, you’ll want to visit this park. The view east from this rooftop park is one of my favorites of all the panoramas I have shot in San Francisco.

The Hyatt Regency Hotel — visible in my 3 Embarcadero panorama — and the Park Hyatt San Francisco — visible in my 1 Embarcadero panorama — are great places to stay if you have business in the Financial District.

San Francisco’s first brick building was built at the corner of California and Montgomery streets in 1849. It was destroyed in one of the several large fires that damaged San Francisco even before the 1906 earthquake.

You can walk two sections of The Gold Rush Trail through the Financial District.

After you've taken a virtual tour of San Francisco on iNeTours.com you might want to take a real San Francisco Tour.