California - San Francisco Bay Area

Cable Cars

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Cable Cars: You cannot leave San Francisco without riding one of the colorful trolleys that make their way up and down the breathtakingly steep city hills. Rather than touring by cab or bus, plan your sightseeing around hopping on and off cable cars. You can travel easily from the shopping district of Union Square past Chinatown and the “crookedest street in the world”—Lombard, and on to the Ghiradelli Square-Fisherman’s Wharf area. Buy tickets at the cable car turnaround or pay the conductor cash after boarding the car. For a behind-the-scenes look at this charmingly antiquated transit system, visit the Cable Car Museum at the corner of Washington and Mason Streets. Here you can view the huge cables that pull the cars from below the streets and a historical display that includes the very first cable car.