The Striped Skunks of the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park
TweetHere’s a visitor to the popular Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, from back in the day. Click to expand These cute little polecats frolic around like kittens. Sometimes. But...
View ArticleCherry Blossom Viewing Picnics Continue on into April Near the Japanese Tea...
TweetFirst is was all like this, in early April 2015 across the street from Friend Gate of the Strybing Arboretum (which used to be popular until the $7 paywall went up): These people were...
View ArticleYou Can Enter the Japanese Tea Garden for Free Three Hours Each Week, But the...
TweetHere’s the old sign out in front of the JTG in GGP – it was there going all the way back to aught-six: And here’s the new sign, which is the same except now the free hours are kept secret: I...
View ArticleOh, Rec and Park Raises Prices 14% at Japanese Tea Garden, Coit Tower,...
TweetPrice for admission at all these places was $7 in 2014, but now in 2015 it’s $8? News to me. I suppose Rec & Park doesn’t make a big deal about raising prices, or maybe they did and I just...
View ArticleForkchops, Japanese Tea Garden – Now That’s Authentic!
TweetThe latest in fusion flatware:
View ArticleCarpe Diem! – Area Fish Tickler Seizes the Day by Stroking Koi in Our...
TweetWow, the ornamental carp in Golden Gate Park are looking good these days. And they’re quite friendly. See? See the Beauty Touch the Magic
View ArticleWater Striders Doing It, Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park
TweetAs promised: And here’s the G-Rated version, with these little critters striding and jumping
View ArticleAnd Now, Your Moment of Zen, Japanese Tea Garden (Now Closed) Critters...
Here ya go, it’s some koi, boi: Giant goldfish, basically: Figure this one out on your own: At rest… …and then a big jump into the air – yay! And here’s a skunk, after hours, back when you could wander...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s Japanese Tea Garden, Already Having Reduced Free Hours by...
Back in the day, our JTG was free after hours, until sunset, so the number of free hours was longer in the summer than the winter, but it was an every day kind of thing that averaged out to something...
View ArticleJapanese Tea Garden Hits the Big Time: Now Featured as an Image During...
Not sure why there’d be nobody around with the front gate open, but anyway: After this kind of attention, it might become a tourist attraction…
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