{"id":129233,"date":"2026-01-11T14:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/129233\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:35:28","slug":"these-are-the-best-things-to-do-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/129233\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the best things to do in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Jose is more than just a tech hub\u2014it\u2019s the nation\u2019s 12th largest city, boasting a walkable downtown, a historic Japantown, Little Saigon neighborhood and a few deeply unique museums and attractions (we adore the Rosicrucian Museum as the best replica of Ancient Egypt you can get in the U.S., and the Winchester Mystery House<\/a> is an eerie, gigantic mansion in which ghosts supposedly pursued an 1800s widow relentlessly).<\/p>\n

Add in a shopping district bustling with eateries and bespoke stores, plenty of historic spots to explore and a few fun places to drink and dance, and you\u2019ve got a destination worth visiting. Driving up to San Franciso<\/a> takes just a little under an hour, making this an easy back and forth day trip<\/a> for your weekend, but why would you want to leave when there are 300 days of sunshine a year in San Jose, compared to San Francisco\u2019s 265? San Jose\u2019s hiking trails, lush parks and a lake attract those looking for a natural experience, too.<\/p>\n

Since our last update: The once-gorgeous, lush\u00a0Japanese Friendship Garden built in 1965 has fallen on some hard times and thus we\u2019ve decided to take it off our list until its water features sparkle once more. Several other former inclusions, too, have lost the fight to stay open, such as the Midtown Arts Mercantile and California\u2019s Great America amusement park. Raging Waters has closed, and CaliBunga Waterpark is now in its place.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose is more than just a tech hub\u2014it\u2019s the nation\u2019s 12th largest city, boasting a walkable downtown,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7579,66535,88,90,89,420],"class_list":["post-129233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-categories-things-to-do","tag-format-eitw","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}