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San Jose Interesting : Michelin's recommendations

Now California’s third largest city, the self-proclaimed “capital of Silicon Valley” bustles with high-tech prosperity. In San Jose’s revitalized downtown, stately old buildings mix with modern high-rises amid palm-lined plazas and avenues. Spread through the city are a number of unusual museums, from innovative new ones to “mysterious” older ones.

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Tourist attractions San Jose : Things to see and do

  • Japanese Friendship Garden Interesting

    1300 Senter Rd USA - San Jose 95112

    The meticulously landscaped 6.5 acres, built in the early 1960s, are modeled after Korakuen Garden in Okayama, Japan, San Jose's sister city. Paths wind past stone lanterns, a small pagoda and a variety of flora, including flowering cherry trees and ..

  • History Park at Kelley Park Interesting

    1650 Senter Rd. at Phelan Ave. USA - San Jose CA 95112

    This 14-acre complex, with paved streets and a running trolley, evokes life in San Jose around the turn of the century. The park comprises some two dozen historic homes and shops, a third of which are re-creations; the remainder were relocated from t..

  • Housed in a whimsical purple structure (1991, Ricardo Legorreta) that resembles building blocks, this bilingual (English-Spanish) museum dominates Guadalupe River Park. Hands-on exhibits and programs are geared to families and school-age children. Hi..

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Hotels San Jose

  • BEST WESTERN PLUS Lanai Garden Inn & Suites

    1575 Tully Road USA - San Jose CA 95122-2459

    Prix Prices from : 79 $

    Experience Northern California from this comfortable and convenient San Jose hotel, located just minutes from popular attractions like HP Pavilion and the Winchester Mystery House. Located just off Highway 101, the BEST WESTERN PLUS Lanai Garden Inn ..

  • Ramada San Jose Convention Center

    455 South Second Street USA - San Jose CA CA 95113

    Located in downtown, this California hotel is 2-blocks from the San Jose Convention Center. An outdoor pool is available and rooms provide free Wi-Fi. The rooms at Ramada San Jose Convention Center are furnished with a microwave and a refrigerator. ..

  • Hotel Elan

    1215 South First Street USA - San Jose CA CA 95110

    Located less than 5 minutes from the San Jose Convention Center and the HP Pavilion at San Jose, this hotel features a continental breakfast and rooms with free Wi-Fi. The accommodations at the Hotel Elan include cable TV with pay-per-view movies. ..

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Restaurants San Jose

  • Smoking Pig BBQ Quite comfortable restaurant 

    1144 N. 4th St. USA - San Jose, CA 95112

    Leave your diet at home, ignore the neighborhood, and follow your snout to the waft of barbecue coming from the large, black smoker parked alongside the Smoking Pig BBQ. The old building has housed previous restaurants (the worn booths are telling). ..

  • Vung Tau Comfortable restaurant 

    535 E. Santa Clara St. USA - San Jose, CA 95112

    Vung Tau's voluminous space is filled with tables for their hordes of loyal Vietnamese devotees. Despite their rather chaste décor and basic service, the gamut of food offerings keeps these patrons riveted. While the hefty menu can stupefy, rest assu..

  • La Costa Quite comfortable restaurant 

    1805 Alum Rock Ave. USA - San Jose, CA 95116

    Is it a taqueria, or is it a taco stand? You be the judge at La Costa, a San Jose hot spot where the décor is, well, the great outdoors. Inside, La Costa 's space features a kitchen with red, green, and white tile floors. But never mind that, because..

  • Bun Bo Hue An Nam Quite comfortable restaurant 

    2060 Tully Rd. USA - San Jose, CA 95122

    Take a cue from Vietnamese locals and march into this popular San Jose joint for steaming bowls of fantastic pho . Soups and stews are the name of the game here, many of which are jazzed up with ingredients like shrimp cake, soft tendon, fat brisket..

  • Fratello Comfortable restaurant 

    1712 Meridian Ave. USA - San Jose, CA 95125

    Fratello in San Jose might not be fancy-schmancy, but this quaint, casual, and family-friendly spot definitely has its own charm. Its theme is echoed in the terra-cotta-colored walls with paintings of the Italian countryside. The warm-spirited Italia..

  • SJ Omogari Quite comfortable restaurant 

    154 E. Jackson St. USA - San Jose, CA 95112

    This homespun, family-owned Korean eatery in San Jose is one to rival any of the cuisine's authentic go-tos in Santa Clara. The traditional banchan may be lackluster, but area foodies come anyway for terrific bibimbap , a piping hot stone pot that..

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