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Outside Japantown are two destinations of im­ portance to the Japanese community: 50 Japanese Tea Garden and 51 Asian Art Museum.

The beautiful Tea Garden (415-752-1171), with tea house, bridges and koi pond, opened in 1894 and is the oldest public Japanese garden in the United States.

In 2003, the Asian Art Museum moved to its new location in the Civic Center (200 Larkin; 415-581-3500). One of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art, the museum’s 40,000 square feet of gallery space includes 15,000 treasures that span 6,000 years of history in all the great Asian artistic traditions.

Balinese masked dance performance at the Asian Art Museum

Japanese Tea Garden
in Golden Gate Park