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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).
Kinokuniya is the largest bookstore chain in Japan, with 70 shops around the country, in cities such as Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka. There are 43 Kinokuniya shops outside Japan. [6] Its first overseas store opened in San Francisco in 1969. Several other bookstores have since opened in the United States, in cities including Los Angeles and New York ...
Its focal point is the Japan Center, which opened in 1968, [6] and is the site of three Japanese-oriented shopping centers. The San Francisco Peace Pagoda, also at the Japan Center, is a five-tiered concrete stupa designed by Japanese architect Yoshiro Taniguchi and presented to San Francisco by the people of Osaka, Japan.
The French Hospital of San Francisco, officially La Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance Mutuelle (French Mutual Benevolent Society [2]), [3] was founded in 1851 as San Francisco's first private hospital. [4] [5] It was originally located 990 Jackson Street (1851), [6] on Nob Hill.
Mission Bay is bounded by Townsend Street on the north, Third Street and San Francisco Bay on the east, Mariposa Street on the south, and 7th Street and Interstate 280 on the west. [4] View of San Francisco from the east. Mission Bay is in the lower center.
Office vacancies climbed more than 5% in six of the top 25 US markets this year, according to CommercialEdge. Sale prices, meanwhile, dropped again, down 9% from the average price in 2023.
Kabuki Theater originally opened in 1960 as a large dinner theater. [1]Interiors of Sundance Kabuki in 2010. The theater was the first multiplex in San Francisco. [2] As part of the original Japan Center mission to showcase Japanese culture, it was the first authentic Kabuki theater in America, designed in a traditional 17th century style with a proscenium, stage entrance/exit ramp, revolving ...
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia, triggering the worst tsunami in recorded history. According to United Nations estimates, more than 220,000 people were killed ...