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Doors open an hour before showtime at most shows here. Enter the showtime, say which ticket and how you’re getting there, and see when to leave and when to start getting ready.
Show night at Chase Center, San Francisco, California. Not sure which time on the ticket matters? The concert night plan covers doors, opener and headliner at any venue.
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The 30-minute ride is a typical run from San Francisco on an ordinary evening (the optimistic number). In the app, set Chase Center as the destination and Apple Maps fills in the time from where you’re leaving.
Then add for show night: the same train carrying everyone else with a ticket (real journey to Chase Center). Change the row and every step before it moves.
The time on the ticket is when the first act is due on, and at most shows here the doors opened an hour earlier. With a general-admission ticket that gap is not spare: the spot on the floor you get is decided by where you are in the line when the doors open, and everyone with the same idea is on the same walk in. So the plan puts you in that line before doors, and the stretch from doors to showtime is a row of its own.
With a reserved seat the deadline really is the show. Aim to be in your seat ten minutes before the first act, and budget the walk to your row: it is the part people misjudge, not the drive.
Here is the evening drawn to scale. A maps app can number the ride in. The rest is the queue at the door, the screening, and the walk to your row.
Front door to your seat: 1hr 25min
The usual show times here
There is no fixed schedule at a concert venue; the promoter sets each show's time, and these are the ones this one runs most often. Pick the one on your ticket and every step before it moves. Anything else, tap the showtime and type it in.
Doors are an hour before showtime at most shows. Chase Center’s own line is that concert door times vary by show, and the odd one opens ninety minutes out instead, so look at your event page in the week of the show. The event page on the official Chase Center site lists doors and showtime; the ticket often lists only one. If your gap is different, edit the settle-in row.
The train is the easy way in, and your concert ticket counts as an all-day Muni fare, good until the end of the service day at 2am. The T Third stops at UCSF/Chase Center on Third Street at 16th Street, and on event days extra trains signed S Shuttle Mission Bay run on top of the regular T. From BART, get off at Powell and walk through to Union Square/Market Street for the T, or get off at 16th St Mission and take the 78X Arena Express bus, which starts about two and a half hours before the show and stops about an hour after it ends.
Caltrain riders get off at San Francisco Station at 4th and King and either catch the T or walk about fifteen to twenty minutes. The ferry to Pier 48½ runs for home games and only select other events, so check SF Bay Ferry before counting on it. BART and Caltrain do not hold trains for the end of a show, so check the last departure before a late one. By car, a weeknight show puts the drive in the evening commute.
Chase Center has two garages of its own, the Chase Center Garage at 99 Warriors Way and the Warriors Way Garage at 150 Warriors Way, and spaces in both are limited. Buy the pass ahead, either as a parking add-on with your Ticketmaster ticket or through SpotHero, and have the barcode out when you reach the attendant. Event parking starts two hours before the show, the Chase Center Garage closes at midnight, and nothing taller than six foot eight fits inside it.
The garage takes no new cars between four hours and two hours before doors. On event days Warriors Way and 16th Street run one way westbound toward the garage entrances, so come in off Terry A. Francois Boulevard and take the lane your pass names. Lyft has a dedicated drop-off and pick-up zone at Warriors Way and Terry A. Francois Boulevard, and the taxi stand is on southbound Terry A. Francois. The bike valet on 16th Street is free and opens an hour before the show.
Any entrance gets you to any seat: your ticket names a portal as well as a section, row and seat, and the portal is the door from the concourse into the bowl. What decides your door is the bag. Anything smaller than 10 by 6 by 2 inches can go in at any entrance, and anything bigger has to use the bag screening lanes. A general admission floor ticket has its own entrance on the southwest side of the building, near Splash at Thrive City.
Doors are an hour before the show at most concerts here. Everyone walks through a metal detector. Bags can be up to 14 by 14 by 6 inches and do not have to be clear. A bag smaller than 10 by 6 by 2 inches can go in at any entrance, and anything bigger has to go through the x-ray lanes. Backpacks are not allowed apart from single-compartment drawstring bags and backpack-style purses. Bag check is outside at the Bike Valet on the corner of 16th Street and Terry A. Francois Boulevard, costs $10, and opens an hour before doors. No outside food or drink, water included, and refillable bottles are on the prohibited list.
There is no re-entry. Some artists play phone-free shows, where phones, smartwatches and cameras are not allowed, and the event page says so. If your ticket is for a general admission floor, the day starts much earlier than doors: at the shows that sell one, the line forms on the ramp between the East and West entrances near 16th Street, numbered wristbands go out in the afternoon, and the line order is set an hour before doors. Anyone who turns up after that goes to the back, wristband or not. The times are set per show on the event page.
Doors, lots and bag rules change; the official site is the live source.
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For a general-admission ticket, be in the line before doors, which are an hour before showtime at most shows here. Be there half an hour before they open, and the ticket chip rebuilds the plan around that. For a reserved seat, aim to be at the gate half an hour before the show, which is what the plan above shows. The part to budget for is the screening line at the door. Carrying a bag adds about ten minutes to that.
About 5:50 PM from San Francisco with a reserved seat, coming in on public transport, travelling light. Earlier for a general-admission floor ticket or a bag to screen. Every row above is editable; the first travel row is your leave-by time.
Two garages of its own, the Chase Center Garage at 99 Warriors Way and the Warriors Way Garage at 150 Warriors Way, both with limited spaces. Buy the pass ahead as a parking add-on with your Ticketmaster ticket or through SpotHero. Event parking starts two hours before the show, and the Chase Center Garage closes at midnight with a six foot eight height limit.
On event days Warriors Way and 16th Street run one way westbound toward the entrances, so come in off Terry A. Francois Boulevard. Lyft drops off and picks up at Warriors Way and Terry A. Francois Boulevard. The official Chase Center site is where the current arrangements are posted.
Yes, and your concert ticket is the fare: show it at the Muni gates and it works all day, until 2am. The T Third stops at UCSF/Chase Center on Third Street at 16th Street, with extra S Shuttle Mission Bay trains on event days.
From BART, change at Powell for the T, or at 16th St Mission for the 78X Arena Express bus, which runs from about two and a half hours before the show to about an hour after. Caltrain’s San Francisco Station at 4th and King is fifteen to twenty minutes’ walk away. The ferry to Pier 48½ runs for home games and only select other events.
Up to 14 by 14 by 6 inches, and it does not have to be clear. Anything smaller than 10 by 6 by 2 inches goes in at any entrance; bigger bags go through the x-ray lanes. No backpacks apart from single-compartment drawstring bags and backpack-style purses. Bag check is outside at 16th Street and Terry A. Francois Boulevard for $10, opening an hour before doors. No outside food or drink, water included, and no re-entry.
Going to a game instead? The stadium pages. Flying in? The airport pages.
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Each step gets its own alert, so you know what's next and how long you have.
Start the plan in the app, and the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the time left, with a bar that fills as each step passes.
Glance at it on the walk in without opening the app.
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