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The San Francisco Peace Pagoda is a five-tiered concrete stupa between Post and Geary Streets at Buchanan in San Francisco's Nihonmachi ().The Pagoda, located in the southwestern corner of Peace Plaza between the Japan Center Mall and Nihonmachi Mall, was constructed in the 1960s and presented to San Francisco by its sister city Osaka, Japan on March 28, 1968. [1]
Prior to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, San Francisco had two Japantowns, one on the outskirts of Chinatown, the other in the South of Market area. After 1906, Japanese immigrants began moving to San Francisco's Western Addition, which then became San Francisco's main Japantown, with a smaller one in the South Park area. [7]
A recent addition to Japantown’s buzzy food scene is a legendary 100-year-old Tokyo yakitoria that actually transplanted itself from the Japanese capital in 2023 after being forced to close ...
East of Park-Presidio Boulevard and bordering Golden Gate Park's northeast corner, Balboa Hollow is the gateway to the main park attractions, including the Music Concourse, flanked by the de Young Museum and the California Academy of Sciences; the Conservatory of Flowers; and the San Francisco Botanical Garden.
Japantown Cultural District, 2013; Calle 24 Latino Cultural District within the Mission District, 2014; SoMa Philipinas District, 2016; The Transgender District, 2017; Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District, 2018; The African American Arts and Cultural District, which consists of Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco and some surrounding areas, 2018
The Japan Center is a shopping center in the Japantown neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened in March 1968 and was originally called the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center. [1] It is bounded by Geary (on the south), Post (on the north), Fillmore (on the west), and Laguna (on the east). The mall itself is composed of three mall ...
Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.. National Park Service. Golden Gate National Recreation Area (partially), including ...
The 49-Mile Scenic Route is a scenic tour of San Francisco designed to be accessible to non-drivers. It is an alternative to the 49-Mile Scenic Drive. In 2019, Peter Hartlaub and Heather Knight of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote a series of articles about a proposed new scenic route. They started by doing the existing scenic drive via a ...