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Japanese Friendship Garden

Ages 3–12
2215 Pan American E Rd, San Diego, CA 92101, USA
Photo: Heirlayna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

About this place

A Japanese garden and museum set across ten acres in San Diego, designed to share Japanese culture and aesthetics with visitors. Families can walk through landscaped grounds featuring plants native to Japan, explore the cherry grove and flowering gardens, visit exhibit halls, and attend cultural events throughout the year. The garden opened in 1991 as a gift of friendship from San Diego's sister city, Yokohama, and includes water features, a koi pond, and pavilions built using traditional Japanese design.

If you are a member here

A membership to Japanese Friendship Garden carries reciprocal admission, so the same card is worth free or discounted entry at other places in this program.

Reciprocal programs are built for travel and most exclude places close to the one where you hold your membership, so this is worth the most when you are away from home. How reciprocal memberships work

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