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Tour Tips & Accessibility

For the best experience, fully charge your phone or tablet, bring headphones, and download the tour on wifi in advance.
Augmented reality scenes appear throughout the tour. When prompted by the narrator, activate the scene by selecting the [Start AR] button on your screen.

RESTROOMS

Restrooms are available inside the Avila Adobe, inside the brick underpass to the right as you walk up Olvera Street, and in Union Station.

TIMING & ACCESS
  • The audio portion of this tour runs approximately 1 hour. The distance traveled is approximately 0.7 miles, and is mostly flat (total descent 35ft). There are up to 10 steps up or down to enter landmarks.
  • The tour can be taken at any time, but it is best taken Tuesday-Sunday between 11am and 3pm when the America Tropical Interpretive center is open.
  • Consider allowing an additional 30 minutes to 2 hours to explore suggested stops and landmarks along the way.
  • Audio transcripts and a virtual 360 video of this tour with closed captions are available.
  • This tour was created in February 2024. While we make an effort to keep things current, you are walking through a living neighborhood and sometimes things change. Be curious, and embrace the unexpected.

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Melting Spots

From Gold Rush saloons to Instagram popups, and Rice-a-Roni to Mission burritos, this interactive food map and podcast explore how immigrants have shaped the city and fed its residents since 1849.

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Coffee Country

There’s a story behind your cup of coffee. Discover how a century-long coffee trade between San Francisco and El Salvador helped bring tens of thousands of refugees to the Mission in the 1980s — sparking a nationwide Sanctuary City Movement.

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Look Up

When the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire leaves Chinatown in ruins, the City seizes its chance to erase the neighborhood altogether. Can the Chinese American community reimagine the neighborhood and ensure its survival? Musician Alex Wong explores this history and Asian American identity today.

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At Home in the Castro?

1950s Eureka Valley was a sleepy Irish Catholic enclave. Then an era of gay migration transforms the neighborhood into a queer homeland: a place with a global queer identity. Take a walk with one of the Castro’s pioneers, and discover how drag got political.

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Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá

Take a walk down bustling Olvera Street with LA local and immigrant justice activist Karla Estrada. Uncover the story of how millions of Mexican Americans were coerced into leaving Los Angeles in the 1930s – and discover how this story still resonates today.

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Returning to the Harlem of the West

It’s 1945. Japanese Americans like Daisy Uyeda have just endured 3 years of incarceration in the desert and are returning to San Francisco. In their absence, newly arrived Black families transform the old Japantown into the “Harlem of the West.” Can this neighborhood feel like home again?

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