Japantown

One of only two hotels in Japantown, the Kimpton Buchanan Hotel, has been identified as one of four properties around SF that the city hopes to purchase by the end of the year to turn into permanent homeless housing, but neighbors are pushing back.

Public Works just installed new cherry blossom trees on Sutter Street in Japantown, and they should be blooming by next spring’s Cherry Blossom Festival.

A priest has died of COVID-19 at Saints Peter and Paul Church in North Beach, 27-year-old Muddy's Coffee House has closed at 24th and Valencia, and an East San Jose gym that had remained open in defiance of health orders has temporarily closed.

A pair of cherry blossom trees outside the Japanese Cultural and Community Center in San Francisco's Japantown won't be blooming this year after a vandal or vandals went to great efforts to rip all the branches off of them.

The driver, who joked about "incriminating himself" on social media, killed a 50-year-old father of two.

With eight high-speed lanes, this stretch of Geary is considered a high-injury corridor by the city.

Built in 1962, the bridge is set to come down as part of the project to speed up the 38 and 38R-Geary buses.

SF-based Real Escape Game, which was the first company to bring the popular Japanese trend to the U.S., is shutting down for good.

Credited as one of the first restaurants to bring shabu shabu to the Bay Area, Mums is ringing in its fifth decade as a newly appointed SF Legacy Business.

The first festive signs of the holiday season are starting to emerge, including an ice rink and a pair of gift fairs featuring local makers.

If ramen is what you're after, look no further than this new business.

Whether you're a fetish enthusiast or a family-fun enthusiast, there's a fair for you in SF this weekend.

Here’s what you can do in San Francisco this weekend.

The remaining 76 will be installed over the next few months in Lower Nob Hill, SoMa, and the Excelsior.

Here are five of our top picks for having some free and low-cost fun in San Francisco this weekend.

Plus: Salesforce Park gets a new lunch destination with Andytown Coffee Roasters

This weekend, shop for some handmade gifts, go on a bike ride or take a photo tour through the Sunset.

This weekend's forecast is calling for sunny skies. Why not check out an anime festival or participate in a beach cleanup?

The victim was shot and killed in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Three pedestrians died on San Francisco's streets in May alone.

Take a photo tour of this year's festival, which marked 50 years of celebrations in Japantown.

One fallen tree in the Lower Pacific Heights left three buildings temporarily without power, the San Francisco Fire Department said.

From the baroque to Broadway, there's lots of options for music-lovers this week in San Francisco.

The brand-new film festival will screen 25 short films from diverse female filmmakers, many of them local.

"[Recognition as a Legacy Business] is a way to thank our original founders for their hard work," executive director Steve Ishii said.