Camera 3 Entertainment

Map & Directions

Camera 3 patrons park FREE (no validation needed) in the four lots listed below from 6:00am-6:00pm Sat-Sun and holidays.
Motorists will now find $2 flat-rate parking at these lots after 6:00pm seven days a week. However, free 3-1/2 hour validations -- given to Camera 3 patrons with paid admission -- are accepted at all of these locations every day after 11:30am.

The four free or validated parking areas for Camera 3 patrons are:

• The city-owned garage on E. San Carlos, between S. Second and S. Third, directly above Camera 3, which shares the same building (entrances on both S. Second and S. Third sides)
• The surface lot on E. San Fernando between S. First and S. Second (entrance on E. San Fernando).
• The surface lot next to San Jose Repertory Theater (200 S. Second, 1/2 block north of Camera 3 directly across street from Camera 12) between S. Second and S. Third Streets (entrance on S. Third).
• The underground Pavilion garage on S. Second Street between E. San Fernando and El Paseo de San Antonio, 1/2 block south of Camera 3 on north side of Camera 12 (entrance on S. Second).

To Get to Camera 3 Cinema, located at 288 S. Second Street in downtown San Jose (just half a block south of Camera 12):

From Highway 280 (North or South): Take Guadalupe Parkway exit to downtown San Jose. Exit at Santa Clara Street, make a right. Go six blocks and make a right onto S. Second Street (theater on northeast corner of S. Second and E. San Carlos streets).

From Highway 101 (North or South): Take Guadalupe Parkway exit to downtown San Jose. Exit at Park Avenue/San Carlos Street. Make left onto Park Avenue. Go two blocks, make left onto Almaden Avenue. Go one block, make right at E. San Fernando Street. Go four blocks and make right at S. Second Street (theater on northeast corner of S. Second and E. San Carlos streets).

From Highway 87: Take San Carlos Street exit at downtown San Jose. Go left at Woz Way (the first light) over the light rail tracks. Take first right at E. San Carlos Street, and go five blocks to S. Second Street (theater on northeast corner of this intersection).

From Highway 880 or 17: Take Highway 280 South (San Jose) exit. Take Guadalupe Parkway exit to downtown San Jose. Exit at Santa Clara Street, make a right. Go six blocks and make a right onto S. Second Street (theater on northeast corner of S. Second and E. San Carlos streets).

Light Rail:
Northbound: Get off at First Street stop between E. San Carlos Street and E. San Fernando Street at the Paseo de San Antonio. Go right through the Paseo to S. Second Street, then another right a 1/2 block to the northeast corner of S. Second and E. San Carlos Streets).
Southbound: Get off at S. Second Street stop between E. San Fernando and E. San Carlos at the Paseo de San Antonio. Theater is 1/2 block south on northeast corner of S. Second and E. San Carlos streets)