The Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco features not only the red pagodas but also strategically placed stone lanterns all around the garden.
Pagodas and Japanese Lanterns
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Pagoda Reflections
Following a two-year restoration project, the Japanese Tea Garden’s towering red pagoda in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park has been officially revived to its full glory, 107 years after its appearance at the 1915 world’s fair. Here are hazy reflections of the pagoda on a pond.
Pagoda at the Japanese Tea Garden
A pagoda is a narrow building with a multi-tiered roof style that originates from the Buddhist religion in India and East Asia. The pagoda in the Japanese Tea Garden is a five-tiered Buddhist shrine. It, along with the Temple Gate, was built as a temporary indoor display for the Japanese section inside the Palace of Food Products at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. After the conclusion of the PPIE, the pagoda and Temple Gate were moved into the Japanese Tea Garden.
