Powell Station

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Accessible via elevators No Public restroom   City: San Francisco |  Market St & Powell St

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Powell Station is located in the heart of San Francisco's main shopping district and is within walking distance from Moscone Center. This station is especially crowded on weekends with shoppers, street performers, and tourists waiting to board the cable cars to Fisherman's Wharf.

This underground station is shared by Muni Metro and BART systems. They have separate faregates, station agents, and platforms.

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Points of interest

BART

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Ticket machines for BART are located in the underground station concourse. Some ticket types are sold at the Transit Store, also on the concourse level. Muni Fast Pass is accepted for rides anywhere between this station and Balboa Park Station.

This station features center platforms.

Platform 1: to Daly City, to Millbrae, to SFO (and Millbrae on nights and weekends).

Platform 2: to East Bay.

Montgomery Station
Civic Center Station (San Francisco)

Bicycle restrictions

Weekdays approximately from 7:12 to 9:05 am, and from 4:16pm to 6:35pm, bikes are not are allowed in this station.

Muni Metro

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Muni Metro opens until about 1:00am.

Pay cash fare at the Muni faregates on the concourse level. Faregates only take coins. Change dollar bills to coin at a nearby BART ticket machine. Take the transfer from the faregate and keep it as proof of payment.

If you have a valid pass or transfer, enter at the faregate next to the attendent and show your pass or transfer, or enter through the swing gate when there's no attendent.

This station features center platforms.

Outbound platform: J K M to Balboa Park, L to SF Zoo, N to Ocean Beach

Downtown platform: J L M to Embarcadero, N to 4th & King, T to Sunnydale

Montgomery Station
J K L M N T Civic Center Station (San Francisco)

Bus

Muni

Bus service within San Francisco.

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Lines 9X, 30, 45, and 91 stop on 4th Street in the southbound direction, and 3rd Street in the northbound direction. Montgomery Station is closer to the 3rd Street bus stop.

AC Transit

Shuttle/Other bus

Historic Streetcar

F-Market & Wharves streetcars operate on the surface along Market Street and stop on boarding islands in the middle of Market St by 4th St and by 5th St.

Cable Car

Terminal for Powell-Mason and Powell-Hyde lines is located on Powell St by Market St. It is a popular tourist spot because the cable cars are manually turned-around there.

You can purchase souvenir cable car tickets at the ticket booth by the turnaround.

Amtrak Thruway

Stops in front of San Francisco Shopping Center on Market Street for bus connection to Amtrak trains at Emeryville and other stations.

Amtrak station code: SFS [1]