The long-running Nikkei Matsuri festival in San Jose’s historic Japantown and the music-filled SoFA Street Fair in downtown ...

S ince the 1960s, Japantown’s beloved Peace Plaza has been shut off from Geary Boulevard, blocked behind a retaining wall. But construction to overhaul the plaza just began, and after a two-year ...

Thousands of people were filling the streets of San Francisco's Japantown for the 58th annual Cherry Blossom Festival. The ...

Every year, more than 200,000 individuals from all around California gather to meet at San Francisco’s Japantown for the ...

Thousands of people were filling the streets of San Francisco's Japantown for the 58th annual Cherry Blossom Festival. The ...

The festival faced planning challenges due to plaza construction but still featured music, vendors and displays of Japanese ...

In this two-weekend event, San Francisco’s Japantown hosted the 58th Annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival.

Thousands crowded San Francisco's Japantown on Sunday for the 58th annual Cherry Blossom Festival. Kiyomi Takeda, who's part of the festival's non-profit arm, said there was plenty for people to ...

Paolo Bicchieri is the associate editor for the Northern California and Pacific Northwest region writing about restaurant and bar trends, coffee and cafes, and pop-ups. In July 2025 the first ...

The 57th annual Cherry Blossom Festival kicks off its first of two weekend spring celebrations in Japantown this Saturday and Sunday, April 12 and April 13 at 10 a.m.