Sausalito-Sakaide Sister City Exchange — 2024 Update
In 2024, the Sausalito-Sakaide Sister City Exchange Program continued 36 years of proud tradition fostering cultural understanding and friendship between Sausalito, California, and Sakaide, Japan.
Sausalito and Sakaide Celebrate 35 Years as Sister Cities
This summer, Sausalito and Sakaide, Japan, celebrated our 35th anniversary as sister cities with a student exchange program and a visit from Sakaide Mayor Tetsuji Arifuku. Our sister city relationship began in 1988, the same year that Sakaide opened the Seto Ōhashi Bridge, a series of eleven bridges spanning the Seto Inland Sea. During the [...]
Join Us! 35th Anniversary Dinners for Our Japanese Sister City, Sakaide, Japan
You are invited to two dinners for our Japanese Sister City, Sakaide, Japan. Sakaide - Sausalito 35th Anniversary Welcome Dinner Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023 Time: 6:00 pm Location: Spinnaker Restaurant 100 Spinnaker Drive Sausalito, CA 94965. Join the Mayor of Sakaide, the Consul General of Japan for San Francisco, and the delegates from [...]
Sausalito – Sakaide Cultural Exchange Thrives Online and in SF Celebration
Sausalito – Sakaide Cultural Exchange Thrives Online and in SF Celebration 2020 was as much an unusual year for the Sakaide-Sausalito Sister City Program as it was for everyone else, but in the spirit of international friendship, through the dedication of our all-volunteer Operations Council, we carried on. While our in-person Summer exchange had [...]
Thank you for joining us at the 3rd Annual Sausalito Wine Experience
The 2019 Sausalito Wine Experience was a spectacular afternoon, and we were overwhelmed by your support. Thank you all for making this year’s event such a wonderful success!
Sausalito-Sakaide Sister City Program Celebrates 31 Years
By Harrison Chapman It’s been quite a powerful 31st year for the Sausalito-Sakaide Sister City Program. As everyone knows by now, our long-time mentor, pillar, and friend of the program, Herb Weiner passed away just days before we were set to launch our 2019 program in July to Sakaide, Shikoku, Japan. Our 11 students unfortunately [...]
Exciting Program Updates from Sausalito and Our Sister Cities
2019 Program Updates Sakaide, Japan The 2019 Sakaide-Sausalito program's "Submittal Window" for applications for this summer's Student Delegation to Sakaide has now closed. We're going through our internal due diligence, but it looks like we have a great group of delegates once again! Delegates will travel to Sakaide in late July as part [...]
Rotary Gala Supports Sausalito Sister Cities
Thank you for joining us on Saturday, March 30, at the Spinnaker Restaurant for a fun evening of cocktails, dinner, live auction and raffle benefiting Sausalito Sister Cities, Inc. We sincerely thank the Rotary Club for selecting us as their gala beneficiary this year, and thank you all for attending this fantastic event! Tom Clark, [...]
Celebrate 30 Years on July 28th
Grab your cowboy hat, put on those shiny cowboy boots and join us for some foot stomping fun at our All American BBQ at the Bay Model Visitor Center on Saturday July 28th at 6pm. We will welcome our Sister City friends from Sakaide Japan in the old fashion American way to celebrate our 30 [...]
Apply to be a Marin Host Family
This is our year to host delegates from Sakaide, with the added excitement that this will be the 30th anniversary of hosting delegates between the two cities. As a result, there will be lots of added features to this summer’s delegate program, and we’d love you to be part of it. The hosting dates are Thursday, July [...]
