Chinese Cultural Garden - San Jose (CA)

3 /5 kaliador18: Feels forgotten. There are signs of a former grandeur, & the park is still lovely, green, shaded, & ready to welcome big families, while also offering plenty of quiet spots, for contemplation or romantic alone time (we interrupted at least 2 couples who were enjoying the solitude)—but it was almost entirely empty on a warm, sunny springtime Saturday afternoon! Despite the local library with which the park shares a parking lot being full of activity! The Chinese cultural artifacts feel mostly abandoned, but they still stand.

4 /5 Ryan Origin: Needs maintenance and maybe some security to protect against vandalism. It hurts me to see cultural sites got smeared over like this. Otherwise good walk to the park, has wild life and near the public library. Not a lot of parking space nearby and yes.. like other people mentioned, the homeless.

3 /5 Silva Rosales Jessica “La Diva JessiJaz_XO”: Loved the designs of the building everything felt peaceful ☺️ thank you for providing us this safe space the garden was a bit dry and so were the trees. we do need to power wash the monuments better they are too sacred to look that worn down.

5 /5 Daniel Berman: After living in San Jose for years, we recently discovered quite by accident the existence of this park and the Chinese Cultural Garden within it. We thought it would be appropriate to visit on the occasion of Double Ten Day, commemorating the chain of events that began on 10 October 1911 leading to the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC), ending more than 2,000 years of imperial rule. The main entrance from McKee Road has been largely taken over by one or more individuals who seem to be running some kind of low-end bicycle repair business, with several sketchy characters sitting next to clusters of old bikes. We decided to move our car from McKee to the parking lot off Educational Park Drive that is shared with a public library branch. The presence of people working on old cars there didnt make us feel all that more comfortable than we were on McKee but we decided to take a chance and park there anyway. I wanted to use the mens room in the park but the entrance was blocked by an unkempt fellow wearing only a pair of old shorts and smoking away, with his radio blasting from within the restroom, so we walked to the library for that purpose instead. This theme continued throughout the park, with most of the benches occupied by people who looked to be in pretty bad shape sleeping there. The park itself is quite beautiful, with some small lakes and groups of beautiful Canadian geese and ducks, though many parts of it have sadly fallen into disrepair, as others have reported. This was the case for the Chinese Cultural Garden, which features a large traditional Chinese gate, a "plum pavilion" overlooking a small lake, an imposing statue of the Chinese sage Confucius, a memorial hall dedicated to ROC founding father Sun Yat-sen and a memorial pavilion dedicated to the first ROC president, Chiang Kai-shek. The memorial hall is closed, surrounded by metal barriers. The memorial pavilion, including the bust of Chiang Kai-shek, has been defaced by various graffiti, as illustrated in the attached photos. It was sad to see the disrepair into which these environs have fallen. Im nonetheless giving the Park and the Garden five stars, as its still a beautiful place worth visiting. Its not their fault that theyve been allowed to fall into disrepair. We hope that someday soon, the situation will be remedied by people who care enough to do so.