Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco (with Map & Photos)

The San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden, United States, in one of the highlights of Golden Gate Park, and one of the places to visit in San Francisco, within our trip along the West Coast, California. It was built as part of the 1894 World's Fair. This Japanese garden is the oldest public garden in the United States (source wikipedia). It is full of ponds, bridges, and of course, a typical Japanese tea house could not be missing from its name.

Japanese Tea Garden San Francisco
Japanese Tea Garden San Francisco

The San Francisco Bridge (Golden Gate) or Alcatraz Prison are unavoidable visits in San Francisco, but as we already mentioned in the case of the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech, when you have enough time to visit a city, this type of The gardens deserve to be visited, as they will represent a few hours of tranquility in the middle of the usual tourist maelstrom that we all suffer when visiting a new city, especially if it is a city full of whims and corners as is the case of San Francisco.

Japanese Tea Garden San Francisco
Japanese Tea Garden San Francisco

The San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden was originally going to be a temporary park, but as is often the case with "temporary" things, almost a century and a half has passed and it's still there. Thanks to a Japanese immigrant gardener, Makoto Hagiwara, who suggested the idea of ​​making it permanent.

Japanese Tea Garden San Francisco
Japanese Tea Garden San Francisco

There is some controversy surrounding Fortune Cookies and whether they originated from the Japanese Garden Teahouse in San Francisco, but it appears that they originate from Japan.

Japanese Tea Garden Map