Start from 42 curated places around San Jose, CA, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Fitoor
A boundary-pushing Indian restaurant on Santana Row, widely called the city's best new arrival, plating inventive dishes like soft-shell crab with tomato chutney and scallops in peanut salan. Ambitious, modern and genuinely exciting.
LB Steak
A polished Santana Row steakhouse with a buzzy patio, dry-aged cuts and a strong cocktail-and-wine program. The district's reliable special-occasion dinner.
Trails & outdoors
Alum Rock Park
California's oldest municipal park, set in a rugged canyon in the eastern foothills with creekside trails, old mineral-spring grottoes and a steep ridge loop with valley views. A wilder escape minutes from the city.
Los Gatos Creek Trail
A flat, paved multi-use path tracing the creek from Los Gatos through Campbell toward downtown, popular for walking, running and cycling past parks and percolation ponds. The valley's everyday green spine.
Things to do
The Tech Interactive
A downtown hands-on science and technology museum with interactive galleries, a domed IMAX and design challenges built for Silicon Valley's home turf. The city's top family attraction.
San Jose Museum of Art
A well-regarded downtown museum of modern and contemporary art in a historic former post office, with strong rotating exhibitions and a Silicon Valley tech-art bent. The city's flagship art space.
Landmarks & sights
Winchester Mystery House
The sprawling, deliberately bizarre Victorian mansion that heiress Sarah Winchester kept building for decades — stairs to nowhere, doors opening onto walls, 160 rooms of architectural riddles. San Jose's most famous, strangest landmark.
Japantown
One of only three historic Japantowns left in the country, a low-key grid of family-run restaurants, groceries, a tofu maker and a Sunday-spirited community feel. A living neighborhood, not a tourist set-piece.