Emeryville

"Departing Reno in the morning, the California Zephyr traverses the Sierra Nevada and upper Central Valley of California before arriving in the Bay Area in the late afternoon. Located slightly north, but almost directly across the bay from San Francisco, Emeryville is a bustling area full of restaurants, cafes, commercial businesses (Trader Joe’s, Ross, AMC movies). The station itself has a large building and is connected via pedestrian bridge to the Emeryville Public Market. There are a variety of chain hotels and is even a jetty or peninsula into the San Francisco Bay, which can offer distant views of the Golden Gate Bridge in the right conditions. If you are interested in continuing into downtown San Francisco, you can connect to an Amtrak Thruway Bus, which will leave as soon as all passengers have boarded from the train. This bus is specifically for Amtrak passengers and you must have a connecting train ticket. Heads up! If you are, for example, traveling from Reno to San Francisco, you must book your ticket that way. You cannot book Reno to Emeryville and then decide later that you want to go to San Francisco. The same is true in reverse and from everything I understand, the ticket agents either will not or cannot sell a separate ticket to the bus. Aside from all of the amazing things you can do in the Bay Area, you can connect to other Amtrak trains at Emeryville station including regional trains: The San Joaquins (Oakland/Sacramento/Stockton-Bakersfield) and the Capitol Corridor (Oakland-Sacramento/Auburn) as well as another long-distance train: Coast Starlight (Los Angeles-Seattle)."