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There’s an exact replica of San Francisco in Japan

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Fisherman's Wharf is the most not-San Francisco part of SF. You know if there is a Hard Rock Cafe that you are not really where the locals dine.

Where do I go where local SF's go? I have a weekend to spare this trip.

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I love the land's end cliff walk starting from here: https://goo.gl/maps/oUNxNPBDhWFhKUeM7. Accessible by bus. You can extend it by going down the coast, through Golden Gate Park and then end up at Haight St for food and lots of interesting stores. Not sure if that's considered touristy.

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San Francisco is all about the neighborhoods.

Avoid downtown. Spend time exploring the Mission, the Castro, Japantiwn, the Richmond district, the sunset district.

Fire up Google maps and go and explore the orange areas scattered around the city.

For a more specific recommendation: start at Arsicault bakery and then head down Clement St from there.

At some point, drop by OXO Truffles on Columbus Avenue. Great stuff to be had there.

Oakland. (The intended joke being that peeople visit SF. If you're already in SF you get out. IIRC there's still some kind of community in Oakland)

Hayes Valley, then Lower Haight. It's haight and Fillmore.

Definitely check out Market street. Also the Tenderloin.

I still like visiting Chinatown when I get back that way. When I was a kid, dad always took me to the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, and I still stop there every time. Haven't lived in the Bay Area for almost 10 years now, though.

Visit South Lake Tahoe and Yosemite.

"Okay, to be fair, it’s not exactly “exact,” and it’s pretty much just Fisherman’s Wharf."

See also this theme park based on random Dutch things in between the mountains of Kyushu in Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huis_Ten_Bosch_(theme_park)

I've been there, it was amazing. Windmills, tulips, canal boats, clogs. The gift shop was themed after Schipol airport!

This article about how the park came to be is my favourite piece of travel writing (it's why we went): https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/huis-ten-bosch-o...

Always wanted to go but put off by the price and relative lack of 'rides'.

How much of your enjoyment was based on the meta (its history, surrealism, copying the Dutch, etc.) and how much was it being genuinely fun?

We thought it would only keep us entertained for a few hours and ended up staying all day. Most of the enjoyment was the surrealism (I can't even remember details of any rides) but that was a LOT of joy.

This was incredible writing. The voice reminded me a bit of David Foster Wallace. I think I’ll be making my way through these archives :)

And I’ll be sure to head to Huis ten Bosch next time I’m in the area. I think soaking in the echo of everything it is, was meant to be, and did not become, will be a real treat.

One of my biggest jaw dropping sighting was to see a "le petit prince" Park in the middle of nowhere in Hakone, as a French, from south France, I was damn surprised to see that such museum existed, I think I had seen an ads on the billboard when going to Hakone and was double surprised.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_The_Little_Prince_...

Misleading clickbait title

There is a small Swedish-like village in Japan:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Hills

- https://www.swedenhills.jp/town/index.html

Clickbait. It's nothing like it.

TL;DR: Universal Studios Osaka has a couple of buildings loosely copied from San Francisco, hosting random restaurants.

In our next shocking episode, there are exact replicas of New York, Paris, Venice and the entirety of Egypt in Las Vegas!

A Venice that smells like your local aquatic centre.

What a stupid clickbait

> Okay, to be fair, it’s not exactly “exact,” and it’s pretty much just Fisherman’s Wharf.

Clickbait.

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