Stockton Street is a north-south street in
San Francisco. It begins at
Market Street passing
Union Square, a major shopping district in the city. It then runs underground for about two and a half blocks in the
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.