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The Japanese Friendship Garden is a walled garden of about six acres in Kelley Park, San Jose, dedicated in 1965. It is modelled on the Kōraku-en garden in Okayama, one of San Jose's sister cities. Paths lead around three ponds at different levels, linked by streams and stocked with koi first sent from Okayama in 1966.
The Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph stands on Plaza de César Chávez in downtown San Jose. The present church, the fifth on the site since 1803, was dedicated in 1877; its portico followed in 1884 and its dome in 1885. It became the cathedral of the Diocese of San Jose in 1985 and keeps an Odell pipe organ built in 1886.
The San Jose Municipal Rose Garden, founded in 1927, lies in the Rose Garden district west of downtown San Jose. It is planted only with roses: more than 3,500 shrubs of 189 varieties grow in formal beds set around lawns and a central fountain, with tall conifers along its edges.
Mission Santa Clara de Asís in Santa Clara, north-west of San Jose, was founded by Franciscans in 1777 as the eighth Spanish mission in California and the first named after a woman, Saint Clare of Assisi. The present church, rebuilt after a fire in 1926 and consecrated in 1929, stands on the campus of Santa Clara University and serves as its chapel.
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