Japantown-Sarah’s perspective
The afternoon of our first day in San Francisco was spend both lost wandering the city streets for hours and Japantown. On our way to the MOMA earlier in the day Alan and I had wandered through an area of town known as the tenderloin district. Not a fun place to be! It is full of crazier than usual homeless people and has the unmistakable smell of urine. Needless to say Alan and I were determined to avoid this area on our way to Japantown. This led us miles out of the way and through some lovely neighborhoods. I have to say my feet have never been in as much pain, as at the end of the that day.
Ok, moving on to Japantown. Japantown is much smaller than Chinatown but is lovely none the less. It is all basically centered in a square with a pagoda and a Japanese mall. When Alan and I got ,to Japantown the first thing we wanted to do was sit somewhere and eat sushi and have a drink. We came across a really cute and reasonable priced restaurant. Since we were so famished from our walk, we ordered an appetizer of lotus roots. Have you ever eaten these? They are delicious. As was our sushi, and our giant beers.
After sushi we went exploring in the mall, coming away with some great incense, and these amazing kiwi flavored gummies. Here are some shots of our Japantown adventure.
There were tons of Cherry blossoms in bloom.
Inside the sushi restaurant. We were eating at an odd hour of the afternoon, so we basically had the restaurant to ourselves.
The pagoda
All the signs were in Japanese
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Sarah lives and plays in Tempe, Arizona. She enjoys exploring, fashion, heated debates, and is a coffee addict.