San Jose's Japanese Friendship Garden is a landscaped garden inside Kelley Park, designed around ponds, bridges, stone lanterns, and clipped plantings. It reflects San Jose's sister-city relationship with Okayama and offers one of the city's quieter outdoor spaces.
The garden is best visited as part of a Kelley Park circuit with History Park and Happy Hollow nearby. It is not large, and conditions can change with maintenance and drought, but at its best it gives San Jose a moment of calm that contrasts with the surrounding freeways and tech-city sprawl.