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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). The mall itself is composed of three mall ...
The Peace Pagoda links San Francisco to the city of Osaka in Japan (San Francisco Travel Association) ... If karaoke is your bag, this intimate bar in the Kinokuniya Mall offers a music menu of ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
A Mexican restaurant in San Francisco’s Mission District, La Vaca Birria is catching attention after raising the price of its signature burrito from $11 to $22, a move that owner Ricardo Lopez ...
Takahashi Trading Company is a former Japanese-import home goods retail and wholesale business in the United States, and is the name of a 1912 warehouse building that once housed the business headquarters in the Potrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco, California, U.S.. The business was active from 1945 until 2019, and had various retail ...
Mission Bay is a 303-acre (123 ha) neighborhood on the east side of San Francisco, California.It is bordered by China Basin to the north, Dogpatch to the south, and San Francisco Bay to the east.