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Explorer's Summer Adventures

SUMMER IN SAN JOSÉ
Explore 
  • Grab ice cream from O'Brien's Candy Store, a San Jose icon acclaimed to be "the prettiest and most attractive candy store on the Pacific Coast."
  • Complete the SCC PixinParks to earn a free shirt or bandana (while supplies last).
  • Visit free-admission Santa Clara City's oldest museum, The Triton Museum of Art.
  • Take a SJ Walking Tour of one of three surviving Japantowns in the United States that is still in its original location right here in San José.
  • Explore one of California's oldest municipal parks founded in 1872, Alum Rock Park.
  • Go see the only Guinness Book of World Records attraction and the largest Monopoly Board in the world in San José.
  • Navigate the turns of the first fully accessible Labyrinth in the world at the Rosicrucian Park.
  • Snap a selfie with Lupe the Mammoth place in the location her bones were found in 2005.
 
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