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Photo Gallery: Classic San Francisco Part of the Places of a Lifetime series from Traveler magazine
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The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, oldest of its kind in the U.S., immerses visitors in Zen tranquillity.
Photograph by Darrell Gulin/Corbis

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