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Japanese Friendship Garden

Japanese Friendship Garden from directly overhead

Japanese Friendship Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 81 m. Lyons Peak stands 1,139 m to the east, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Zen Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
Customers only
Fee
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates32.72974, -117.14963
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Artworks
Attractions
  • House of Mexico: 0.1 mi
  • House of the Philippines: 0.1 mi
  • House of Panama: 0.1 mi
  • House of Iran: 0.1 mi
  • House of Italy: 0.1 mi
Parks
  • Ethno-botanic Garden: 0.2 mi
  • Redwood Circle: 0.5 mi
  • Sefton Plaza: 0.5 mi
  • Marston Point: 0.6 mi
  • Tweet Street Linear Park: 0.6 mi
Historic sites
  • Kate Sessions: 0.5 mi
  • AIDS Memorial: 0.8 mi
  • Waldo Waterman Monument: 0.9 mi
  • Blackened Fish Taco: 1.1 mi
  • Stuffed Artichokes: 1.1 mi
Peaks
  • Marston Point: 0.5 mi
  • Cowles Mountain: 8.9 mi
  • Kwaay Paay Peak: 9.1 mi
  • Dictionary Hill: 9.1 mi
  • South Fortuna Mountain: 9.1 mi
Gardens: 58
Cliffs: 26
  • Sunset Cliffs: 6.2 mi
  • Sunset Cliffs: 6.2 mi
  • Sunset Cliffs: 6.2 mi
  • Sunset Cliffs: 6.3 mi
  • Swordfish Point: 6.3 mi
Beaches: 24
Nature reserves: 23
Springs: 12
  • Dog Spring: 8.8 mi
  • Sweetwater Spring: 10.4 mi
  • La Honda Spring: 15.4 mi
  • Hubbard Spring: 20.6 mi
  • Rock Haven Spring: 21.2 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Africa Rocks Waterfall: 0.6 mi
  • Lower Adobe Falls: 5.7 mi
  • Adobe Falls: 5.8 mi
  • Los Penasquitos Waterfall: 13.7 mi
Picnic sites: 4
  • Ridgetop Picnic Site: 24.1 mi
  • Tree Lake Picnic Area No. 3: 24.4 mi
  • Ray Love Picnic Area: 24.5 mi
  • El Arroyo Picnic Area: 24.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.1 miles of Japanese Friendship Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Lyons PeakE 95°1,139 m22.5 mi
El Cajon MountainNE 56°1,112 m23.0 mi
Otay MountainESE 118°1,067 m20.0 mi
El CapitanNE 55°1,026 m22.6 mi
Rock MountainNE 54°996 m24.1 mi
Silverdome IINE 54°970.36 m22.0 mi
Woodson MountainNNE 28°878 m21.9 mi
Sycuan PeakE 85°840 m20.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2819:01
June solstice05:4219:2420:00
September equinox06:3818:1418:47
December solstice06:4816:1016:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F585961636567717272686358
Precip in2.02.21.50.60.30.00.10.00.10.50.81.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Diego Intl AP, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard1,688 obs
  • Green Anole1,618 obs
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel1,544 obs
  • Mallard1,204 obs
  • Monarch1,192 obs
  • Western Honey Bee945 obs
  • Black Phoebe826 obs
  • Allen's Hummingbird706 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/266757959

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