Photographers will like this place. Best lobby: the Mark Hopkins (superb). Best vertical view: The place where two cable car lines cross at Powell and California—you find your way to the roof garden of the Fairmont Hotel and point your camera down. You can also shoot (photographically) the Bohemian Club across the street. Human interest: Park and playground, with kids... More

One can take in the sites on Nob Hill from the luxury of the Cable Car along California st, which travels from downtown, up the end of the line, or if feeling energetic,walk it, it's a good stiff walk, I'v done it a couple of times, hills that you can only imagine, There are a few places of interest along... More

This is one of the hilly areas in San Francisco you expect when you come here to visit. And you'll see a lot of cute beautiful houses.

Once an exclusive enclave of wealthy Railroad Barons and Industry Tycoons, now the main attractions are Grace Cathedral and hotels such as the Mark Hopkins, The Stanford Court or the Fairmont. Views from Nob Hill are lovely in all directions but I prefer those looking East towards the Bay Bridge and downhill towards nearby Chinatown

Exclusive area of town. Very hilly, but worth the walk.

Lots of great buildings, and you will also run across Grace Cathedral. Definitely take a walk through this neigborhood.

It may just be another city neighborhood, but one with a twist – this being San Francisco, Nob Hill, as the name suggests, lies atop one of the steep hills of the city, and the view is one of the attractions – which is probably why the rich of times gone by chose this very location for their city mansions.... More