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Japan Center
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An enormous indoor mall comprising 3 buildings (connected by a plaza on one side, and a shop-filled over-the-street bridge on the other). This is a great place to spend an afternoon souvenir shopping.
If your kids like Pokemon and Hello Kitty (among MANY other Japanese cartoon characters), you'll have to pry them out of here with a crowbar.
I especially love Ichiban Kan Different Things, a store patterned after Japan's 100 Yen shops. You can pick up kitchen utensils, beauty products, dry goods, stationary, and bento boxes, for unbelievably low prices. I would still be there if my eye-rolling spouse hadn't dragged me out.
There are lots of tempting places to eat too, and not only Japanese. On the Bridge has pasta and hamburgers, Belly Good Cafe and Crepes has cafe fare, and there are plenty of coffee shops too.
Getting here is easy on the bus (lines 2, 3, and 4 drop you off right in front of the mall). If you get stuck with rainy weather while you're in SF, this is the place to go.
- Geary between Fillmore and Laguna
- 94115
- http://www.sfjapantown.org/index.html
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