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The most convenient first-trip base: the cable-car lines start here, Muni and BART run beneath Market Street, and you're walkable to Chinatown, the shopping and the Financial District.
There are hotels here at every price. Book toward Union Square proper and the streets just north and west; be choosier about the blocks toward the Tenderloin, which can feel rough after dark.
Pick a real neighbourhood from this list near a good line, and remember: the Mission and the east side get the sun, the western and coastal neighbourhoods get the fog.
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