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Just north of downtown San Antonio in the historic Brackenridge Park, the Japanese Tea Garden is one of the city's most beloved hidden corners and a free public garden of rare beauty. The garden was created in 1919 in a disused 1840s quarry, where the City Parks Commissioner Ray Lambert envisioned a tranquil landscaped retreat that would make creative use of the dramatic steep stone walls left by decades of cement quarrying. The original gardens were laid out and tended by the Japanese-American...

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