Haruna English Blog: San Francisco

San Francisco by Janet Hardy-Gould

I read San Francisco. It has much information like geography, history, travel. I learned about San Francisco from this book, so I’ll tell you about San Francisco!

San Francisco is on the west of the United States. Most people visit there by car, bus, or plane, but some people take the train and go across the country on the famous old railroad. Many visitors are interested in the famous places including the Golden Gate Bridge, the Golden Gate Park. People began to call this wonderful place ‘The Paris of the West’.

There are about seventy hills in San Francisco and they are good places for photographers. But we have to be careful about the weather because it often changes. We can see blue skies, and one minute later, there is only the famous fog. The hills break the town into different part and these are called neighborhoods. Today, some of them have many people and shops. We can go to Chinese restaurants and Japanese food shops. This is because many families from across the world move to the city.

San Francisco is famous for hundreds of books and films. Martin Eden wrote about the lives of people in old San Francisco. One film is filmed by using the Golden Gate Bridge. Many books and films were used the San Francisco fog. Like these things, people know about San Francisco and visit San Francisco.

I had one question. Why is the fog happened in San Francisco？ The reason was also written. San Francisco is very near the water, between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. It’s the reason weather in San Francisco often changes, too. The temperature in the winter doesn’t change a lot from the temperature in the summer. The weather is usually worse in the summer months from June to August. In these months, a lot of fogs happen from the Pacific Ocean. The best weather is often in April, May, September, or October, so I recommend to visit in the spring or in the autumn.

I was interested in the Golden Gate Park. It’s the biggest city park in the United States. It has different parts of the park. One part was built the oldest Japanese garden by Makoto Hagiwara. In this book, we can see the picture of the Japanese bridge. I was surprised there is it in San Francisco.

The information is one part of this book. After reading this book, I could the early history and today’s San Francisco, and I think I want to visit there someday. If you read this book, you might become to visit San Francisco, too.