Monopoly In the Park

This is a fun little place near the Children’s Discovery Museum. We brought an out of town friend here and she had a great time here. We watched some people playing the Monopoly game. It looked like they had a private party because they brought in all the big game pieces.

Honestly, I just thought that it was just ok, so our group went and it was hot that day. Why would I sign up for this event? To play, did that happen? Not a whole lot. It was hot that day, and I was mostly sitting watching people play, so??? Try again? Well? Maybe…

It’s Monopoly!
It’s in a park!
It’s on the ground, nearby a questionable city bus stop!
You have to call the city for game pieces!
There is no shade around it!
You will have to yell at each other while playing the game to hear over the buses, highway traffic, and questionable sketchy people in the area!
It’s Monopoly!

San Jose bucket list — check! After living in the South Bay for more than 4 years, you would have thought that I’d visit this amazing art installation sooner. But sadly, I never made time to come here until just a few days ago. And boy, was it everything I dreamt it would be.
Monopoly is my favorite board game (don’t hate), that’s why I’m geekin’ so hard over this right now. I wish I could have played on this huge board, but I only had time to take a few pictures. And it was basically an oven that day, and I was wearing a blazer. I would say it’s worth the time if you’re in Downtown to come and visit it. You can’t find it anywhere else!

I went for an early morning run and saw this Small park downtown San Jose Great statues but a creepy guy came up to me at 6:00 am. just a reminder to all — always be aware of your surroundings !

What a unique location and totally fun! I asked how much larger than the Monopoly Board game it is and found out its 200 time bigger … about the size of a school classroom. You are the token! You throw giant dice and buy giant houses and hotels for your properties which are to the scale of the giant board! Great for all ages and team building events!

Pretty cool. Life size version of the game on the concrete. A lot of kids nearby having a blast. There are a lot of people on a picnic nearby can’t really play the game but it’s still cooler to see. Located in a very nice park in downtown San Jose, kids will think it’s cool.

San Jose hold’s Guinness book of world records for largest permanent monopoly board 31×31 ft (9.44×9.44 m). Pretty cool! It definitely isn’t as big as you probably expect (or maybe that’s just me), but kids love to jump around on it! It is located on the lawn right next to the children’s discovery museum. There is also a pair of large, stationary dice. Metered parking is around the block which is your best bet unless you want to pay for the expensive parking garages.

This is a fun little attraction everyone (young and old) should see at least once.
Truth be told the neighborhood is shady and old and run down and kinda scary. Park on San Carlos right next to the board. DO NOT park on side streets or by the children’s museum.
STAY AWAY — I shall repeat STAY AWAY from anything near Guadalupe Park (which is about a block away where we parked because we couldn’t find the board). Guadalupe Park is full of scary homeless people and drug using teens.
Another note, if you park anywhere besides San Carlos Street you are going to pay the meter too much to walk or pay $ 5.00 at an adjacent parking garage which is totally not worth it to see the board.
Okay, now that we are done with parking and the neighborhood I can talk about the board. It’s not as big as I thought it was going to be but it certainly is a fun sight to see. I had to play dorky tourist girl and bounce around on the square for fun. We spent about 10 minutes looking around at it and left.
Good times for cheap. Fun quick little stop.

So fun to bring visitors to see the giant game board. They are always impressed. Little kids like to jump all over it and make up their own game. Theoretically, you really can bring your own game pieces and play here. There are a few tables with checker boards surrounding the Monopoly board. This is good for a little picnic or a game of checkers/​chess. I always like to come by just to take a look. :-)

Great place for pictures and it’s FREE! Finding free parking can be tricky though!
Definitely a hidden gem in San Jose!

Great little spot to visit. Right next to the children’s museum. It was nice, except all kinds of people hanging out drinking and smoking in the whole area.. It’s downtown. I guess you can’t be to surprised about that.

A very cool thing to see if you have some time while in Downtown SJ. It is cool, but as some of the other reviews suggest, not really going to knock your socks off. On a really nice day it seems like a perfect thing to do with a couple folks or ideally kids who like monopoly… maybe a picnic and a game of real monopoly!

I’ve lived here my whole life and never knew this existed. Monopoly in the Park is definitely cool. It’s part of the Children’s Discovery Museum. My only complaint is that there are no trees or shade around here to chill or relax.

Unique little place to visit if you happen to be in the area. It’s a life size Monopoly board with the opportunity to rent large game pieces and play a game for a fee ($ 300 for family pricing, $ 150 deposit) according to their website. Street parking and the parking lot nearby is $ 7 for the whole day, which isn’t worth it if you’re just visiting the park. There’s about 2 street parking spots in front of Hilton that offers 30 minute parking, which was enough time for me and my friends to walk over and take some photos.

Love it, great place to go with the homies

I always like to see something new and unique, so off to Monopoly in the Park we went!
I guess I had expectations set too high; thinking the board was going to be HUGE– maybe something taking up the whole park! I guess I should have read more. This is certainly not as big as you may initially assume. Apparently you can rent game pieces for parties and events which would probably be a lot of super silly fun.
I’m glad I saw this, and I think everybody in the neighborhood should definitely make a trip to visit.

One of the best coolest htings I have every seen!!! When you come here you have to take a pic running across PASS GO!!! or sit in the Jail square :) If you are like me you want this one off your bucket list! Very cool to feel like you are a player piece in the game of MONOPOLY. Did you know you can even rent the pieces in advance to play a real game??? How awesome is that!!! So if you live near here or are passing though place it on the map for a must see landmark in Downtown San Jose!!!

Monopoly in the Park just placed San Jose on the map! Who would have known that there’s a life size monopoly!
Thoughts/​tips:
*Its a free place to visit which equals super cool!
*Probably wouldn’t take you a super long time to take pictures and hang out. At most 30 minutes.
*It’s a bit tagged up on certain spots but nevertheless still pretty cool to see in real life!
*Located right by the river.
*walking distance from the main downtown san jose area.
*if you actually wanna play the life size monopoly you gotta call and reserve the pieces in order to do so.
*its not located in a shady place so if its sunny out; it’ll get hot.
*really awesome concept and worth seeing if you’re a monopoly fan!
*close by the light rail and children discovery museum.
I would recommend coming here! Happy picture taking!

I frequent downtown San Jose fairly often and was surprised to hear of a giant Monopoly game in my midst.
The website says it was produced as an exhibition for the 1992 San Francisco Landscape and Design Show. It’s pretty cool, for a few minutes at least. Unfortunately, the pieces have to be reserved. There are no restrooms on location so it doesn’t seem like the best place to have a party. I get the impression they usually book it for corporate parties. I had mild fun taking pictures though.