Try going on a Saturday night for Karaoke night, really over-the-top OAPs getting down to some of the worst singing you've ever heard. Go REALLY early to get a seat (5.30pm)

Great food, dozens of different open-air restaurants. Argentinian, Middle Eastern, incredible Mexican, Creole, Chinese, French, diners, bars, everything.

You can also buy truly hideous souvenirs here, snow globes with palm trees, bare-breasted salt and pepper shakers, kittens made of rabbit fur (eeek!) deeply un-chic, and perfect gifts for your boss.

It's next to the newer open-air shopping mall called "The Grove", as in Coconut, I expect, not Notting Hill. There you can find a big department store and tons of Gap, Crate and Barrel, Anthropologie type shops.

Great inexpensive day and or evening out.

On the corner of Fairfax and Third

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An exquisite park, used for weddings on the weekend, it's an enchanting way to experience a very personal side of Japanese culture. The brides are lined up in a holding pattern like jets coming into Heathrow. They marry somewhere nearby and come to the park for the photographs. The most fabulous thing is when the bridal party are in traditional Japanese clothing. Incredible, ornate, solemn.

The koi in the pond are ravenous and beach themselves in an attempt to get food, their lips rival Mick Jagger's.
Spend a morning or more here, the actual park is traditional and has a tea house, ducks, the aforementioned pond, and some beautiful stonework.
Don't miss it.

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