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Rebellious San Francisco: Chinatown and North Beach Walking Tour

By Path & Story Walking Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is S$39 per adult

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  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
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Overview

Join your expert, local guide at Chinatown's Dragon Gate to explore two of San Francisco’s oldest and most culture-rich areas – Chinatown and North Beach (Little Italy). Hear unique stories that feature the rise of North America's oldest Chinatown in the Gold Rush, the ingenuity of Chinatown’s madams and struggles of its gang history, the Beatniks' free-lovism that challenged 1950s American ideals, and the controversial club where Carol Doda inspired the adult entertainment world on this casual walk around the area. See some of the famous local watering holes, art spaces, and places of great rebellion that still stand today. Only the adventurous – those who wanted to forge their own path and weren’t burdened by cultural norms – went west. This anything-goes spirit is the thing that shaped San Francisco, and we'll immerse ourselves in it on this ~1.5 mile mostly flat walk. This tour is ideal for those wanting more than typical tourist sights and has adult themes.

Activity location

  • St. Mary's Park
    • San Francisco, California, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Dragon Gate San Francisco
    • Grant Avenue
    • 94108, San Francisco, California, United States

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San Francisco Chinatown and North Beach Walking Tour
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 13:00
Price details
S$38.56 x 1 AdultS$38.56
Total
Price is S$38.56

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Expert local guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Service charge

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

St. Mary's Park

  • 15m
Learn the history of Chinese culture in San Francisco during the heart of the Gold Rush as well as the impact of the 1906 earthquake on Chinatown and the ingenuity that allowed them to survive and thrive.

Chinatown

  • 15m
See the stunning architecture and artistic details of Chinatown’s Waverly Place while learning about SF’s first Chinese madam and seeing a area inspired and plagued by a long history of gang wars.

Sing Fat Co. building

  • 15m
Experience the first buildings of east-meets-west architecture in California and learn how these came to stand under the shadow of the elite mansions on the hill.

City Lights Booksellers

  • 15m
Visit infamous City Lights Booksellers; immersed in art, culture, and controversy as the original home of free-lovism and a public obscenity trial. Learn how the Beats movement challenged 1950s American ideals.

Vesuvio Cafe

  • 15m
Experience this famous, art-filled San Francisco watering hole central to the Beatnik movement as it challenged 1950s American ideals with free-lovism and drug-encouraged enlightenment.

Jack Kerouac Alley

  • 15m
Stand in the art-ladden Jack Kerouac Alley that today is still home to cutting edge performances. Hear the stories of how Kerouac inspired musicians of the 1960s. Experience the notorious watering holes like Vesuvio where Beats wrote and smoked and wrote and drank and wrote.

Location

Activity location

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    St. Mary's Park
    • San Francisco, California, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Dragon Gate San Francisco
    • Grant Avenue
    • 94108, San Francisco, California, United States

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