The Japanese Garden, San Francisco

Today while I was in San Francisco, I went to see The Japanese Garden which is in Golden Gate Park. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays there is free admission between 9 and 10 am, and I always like free!

This is the oldest public Japanese Garden in the US, originally created as part of the 1894 World's Fair in San Francisco.

I enjoyed a couple of hours walking around the 5 acres of the park and I had a pot of Japanese Sencha tea and some pastries in the tea-house overlooking the garden. Mr Hagiwara who developed the garden after the fair and created the tea-house was, according to family members, the one who introduced fortune cookies to the US from Japan.