Stockton Street (San Francisco)

Stockton Street
Stockton Street in Chinatown, viewed south from Broadway, with two Muni trolleybuses, and the mound of the Stockton tunnel in the far background.
NamesakeRobert F. Stockton
South endMarket
North endBeach
Other
Known forMajor shopping district for Chinatown

Stockton Street is a north-south street in San Francisco.[1] It begins at Market Street passing Union Square, a major shopping district in the city.[2] It then runs underground for about two and a half blocks in Stockton Street Tunnel (lending its name to a separate, parallel street above the tunnel), passes through Chinatown and North Beach (Little Italy), and ends at Beach Street near the Pier 39 shopping center and tourist attraction.[3]