San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia

Major features
Japanese Tea Garden
A step-stone bridge in the Japanese Tea Garden
The Japanese tea garden, an immensely popular feature, was originally built as part of a
sprawling World's Fair, the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition[1].
Notable as the oldest public Japanese garden in the U.S., this intricate complex of
many paths, ponds and a teahouse features native Japanese and Chinese plants. Also
hidden throughout its five acres (20,000 m²) are beautiful sculptures and bridges. Makato
Hagiwara, a Japanese gardener who was official caretaker of the garden from 1895 to
1942, was also the inventor of the fortune cookie. A persistent (but likely apocryphal)
legend records that the Japanese ambassador, after being shown its features and asked his
opinion, gasped, "We have nothing to equal it in Japan."
The Music Concourse Area
The Music Concourse is an open area with three water fountains surrounded with maple
trees positioned uniformally. There is also a stage on the east side. The buildings near the
conourse area include The Academy of Sciences and the De Young Museum.
In 2003 Music Concourse is also undergoing a series improvements to include an
underground 800-car parking garage, narrowing of the roadways in the Music Concourse,
the addition of bike lanes, and the elimination of existing surface parking.