This event will take place inside the garden’s gates. We invite guests to make special oni masks, as well as participate in the Mamemaki, or bean tossing event. Special Masu cups filled with Roasted Soybeans for the event will be available for at JFG’s gift shop located inside the Inamori Pavilion. Guests can also enjoy performances, demonstrations, crafts, and food. Come join us for an exciting event!

Unleash your inner artist for a paint and sip at Alma San Diego's cozy lobby restaurant, The Café, as we guide you step by step through painting "Sun Ocean"! No experience is necessary so bring a date, or a friend, or even come solo. Our instructor will provide everything you need, so get ready for an unforgettable evening!

TASTE and SEE the best of San Diego’s wine, food and sights! We've been delighting tens of thousands of guests since 2010. 

Join us on a luxury wine tour - The Chauffeured Vineyards Adventure:

- Get picked up and dropped back at your hotel or home.

- Relax, drink and eat at exclusive winery estates picked especially for you!

- Fully-guided FUN and TASTY adventure.

Includes: Ample pours of local wines; appetizers AND full meal (not a boxed lunch); sightseeing; history; culture; behind-the-scenes tour; expert tasting presentation; FUN! All for only 184 per person.

Home of the World-Famous Winery Train Tour! Want to add a train ride to the above package. Call for details: 858-551-5115

Considered the birthplace of California, join us to explore San Diego's most historic neighborhood by hearing stories about the different groups who lived here, seeing where they lived and worked, and ending the experience by enjoying some food and drink from the neighborhood's most celebrated occupants.

Tour Highlights

Explore San Diego’s most historic neighborhood

Learn about the indigenous people who called San Diego home thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers

Take a short hike up Presidio Hill to where the Spanish first settled over 250 years ago

Find out how life changes once the Americans arrive and establish a new government

Choose from a vast selection of tequila varieties at an authentic tequileria that boasts a collection of thousands in its museum

End your experience enjoying delicious gourmet street tacos