A couple of years ago, At Home Dad and I spent about a week in San Francisco for our 20th anniversary. One of my favorite parts was wandering through so many of the gardens. One we went through was the Japanese Tea Garden. It was beautiful and interesting. (These pictures are from the San Francisco garden.)
I recently found out that there is a Japanese Tea Garden in San Antonio. That means just a couple of hours away! And I had no idea. It looks absolutely beautiful. I am hoping that before too long we can take a trip down there and visit the garden. It probably will have to be an overnight trip; we have done a day trip to go to Sea World before and it was a HARD day!
The land was originally donated for a public part back in the early 1900s. It was originally designed with a lily pond, walkways, and a Japanese pagoda. During WWII, due to anti-Japanese sentiment, the garden was recognized as a Chinese sunken garden. It was operated by a Chinese family until the 1960s. In 1984, it was rededicated as the Japanese Tea Garden and has since undergone a massive refurbishing and restoration.
This long history is surprising to me as we have spent quite a bit of time in San Antonio – the annual music educators convention which we have gone to a number of times and we went there for our honeymoon. I have not heard of these gardens until now.
Definitely – this one is on the bucket list!
Blessings,
At Home.
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A – Abilene’s Storybook Sculpture Project
B – Big Bend
C – Congress Avenue Bridge and the Bat Colony
D – Dr Pepper Museum
E – Enchanted Rock
F – Flowers
G – Gulf Coast
H – Hot Air Balloons
I – Independence, TX
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At Home 
I hope you get to go and if so, that you thoroughly enjoy your time there.
Thanks!
We have a Japanese Tea Garden in our area – my mom has been but I haven’t had the chance to go yet.
I loved the one we visited in CA and can’t wait to visit San Antonio again to visit this one.
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We have a Japanese garden in Portland which is not too far of a drive for us. We have visited it twice and both times it has been just so beautiful. This one looks like it has some amazing things to see! Did you ever get to visit the one close to you?
No, we haven’t. I still would love to.
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