The Cannery
Handmade arts are the specialty of this red brick Fisherman's Wharf center.

Crocker Galleria
Modeled after Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, this airy and ornate center houses boutiques, restaurants and home furnishing stores.

Embarcadero Center
Slightly upscale yet comfortable shopping center consisting of four buildings. Standard mall stores are present, as are boutiques, an art movie house and indoor and outdoor restaurants.

Ghirardelli Square
Ghirardelli means chocolate to most people, and the square delivers. But it also has more than 70 other stores specializing in eclectic gifts, art and clothes.

Japantown Center
Home to more than 40 unique stores selling everything from rice paper to imported video games to handmade furniture.

Metreon
This Sony-rific technology wonderland has several stores, restaurants, fun activities for kids and a movie theater.

Pier 39
The most-visited part of San Francisco caters to tourists, with sweatshirts, umbrellas, cable car-shaped toilet paper holders and other essentials within easy reach of the crab stands and ferries.

San Francisco Shopping Centre
A nine-level shopping center joined together by America's only curved escalator, it's full of boutiques, chain stores and five stories of Nordstrom (the world's largest).

Stonestown Galleria
Shopping mall in the Sunset District with 130 stores, including Williams-Sonoma, Borders Books and Macy's. Lots of free parking.