Get cheeky with BeneTint (liquid blush made from crushed roses) or raise eyebrows with Big Sexy Eye Kit – two of Benefit's signature products, invented in San Francisco by a twin-sister team. Surgery is so LA: SF complexions stay fogged-in fresh with Ooh La Lift concealer and a quick trip to the Brow Bar . There's another branch in the Marina.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Japantown, Fillmore & Pacific Heights attractions

1. Cottage Row

0.19 MILES

Detour to days of yore, when this neighborhood was a sleepy seaside village – before lumber barons arrived with bombastic Victorian fanfare. Serene…

2. Ruth Asawa Fountains

0.31 MILES

During drought years you'll have to imagine how they look with water flowing, but even without they're a sight to behold. Celebrated sculptor and former…

3. Konko Church

0.31 MILES

Inside this low-roofed, high-modernist church a blond-wood sanctuary welcomes all faiths. Kindly Reverend Joanne Tolosa will answer questions about…

4. Japan Center

0.34 MILES

Time-travel to 1968 as you cross Japan Center's indoor wooden bridges, with noren (curtains) and maneki-neko (cat figurines) waving welcomes from…

5. Peace Pagoda

0.36 MILES

The spiritual center of Japantown's commercial district is minimalist master Yoshiro Taniguchi's Peace Pagoda. It was donated by San Francisco's sister…

6. Fillmore Center Waterfall & Plaza

0.5 MILES

This patch of green flanked by apartment towers is open to the public and a welcome break from Fillmore sidewalks. Walk past the fountain at O'Farrell…

7. Church of St Mary the Virgin

0.56 MILES

You'd expect to see this rustic Arts and Crafts–style building on the slopes of Tahoe, not Pacific Heights, but this Episcopal church is full of surprises…

8. Haas-Lilienthal House

0.58 MILES

If these red-velvet parlor walls could talk this 1886 Queen Anne–style Victorian could tell you about earthquakes, booms, busts and untimely deaths. This…