Japantown

A Sunday afternoon one-alarm fire spread to both the first and second floors of the Buchanan YMCA in Japantown, and the facility that serves mostly seniors will remain closed until further notice.

Fermentation Lab, the San Francisco gastropub that’s beloved for its pickled foods and occasional strong brews, will expand from its 6,000-square-foot mid-Market location and open another eatery in Japantown soon.

Kokak Chocolates founder Carol Gancia says she's looking forward to having more production space, and that she hopes to become part of the "treasure hunt" that is shopping in Japantown.

A new restaurant with seating for just nine diners has opened under the radar in San Francisco’s Japantown offering Kappo-style dining at just one seating per night, for only nine guests at a time.

A new, still nameless, high-end Indian concept from Taj Campton Place chef Srijith Gopinathan and business partner Ayesha Thapar — who also opened the acclaimed Ettan in Palo Alto together — is coming to the former Dosa space.

Japantown’s oldest business will survive a few months longer, as their previously announced January closure has been moved out to the end of March.

If you love the Japanese rice cakes called mochi, early January is your last chance to get it at Japantown’s oldest business Benkyodo Company.

Lena Turner would not let the Japantown mall closures end her run, as the 91-year-old has opened a new omakase spot Sushi Aoba.

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.