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The SF Bucket List

You did the tour — now what?

Keep exploring! These are our guides’ favorite free (and almost-free) things to do, eat and drink in San Francisco.

The SF Bucket List

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This week’s local favorite

Japanese Tea Garden pagoda and stone lanterns in San Francisco's oldest Japanese garden.
Free Mon · Wed · Fri, 9–10 AM

Japanese Tea Garden

The oldest public Japanese garden in the USA — arched bridges, pagodas and koi ponds tucked inside Golden Gate Park. Come Monday, Wednesday or Friday between 9 and 10 AM and entry is completely free.

Open every day · 9 AM–4:45 PM (winter) · 9 AM–5:45 PM (summer)
75 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco

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