--- title: "11 Photo Quests in San José, Costa Rica — GetMap" description: "11 photo quests in San José, Costa Rica — led by food, art and history. Get there, take a photo within 200 m, and the check-in counts." source: https://getmap.travel/quests/city/cr/san-jose --- # San José Costa Rica · 11 quests ## History 2 quests ![Cementerio General, San José](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/History/ChIJ10nwHBzjoI8RanJ0vnXqmr8.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇨🇷 San José [Cementerio General](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJ10nwHBzjoI8RanJ0vnXqmr8) Its graves are small buildings with stone figures ![Central Market, San José](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/History/ChIJO_ePiWPjoI8RjlsgmsfWidk.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇨🇷 San José [Central Market](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJO_ePiWPjoI8RjlsgmsfWidk) Herbs hang beside old lunch counters ## Nature 2 quests ![La Sabana, San José](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Nature/ChIJM_Dtpqv8oI8RyETi6jXqf_c.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇨🇷 San José [La Sabana](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJM_Dtpqv8oI8RyETi6jXqf_c) A former airport now holds a city lake ![Parque de la Paz, San José](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Nature/ChIJw2bWqhPjoI8RPxRyJTsHHl4.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇨🇷 San José [Parque de la Paz](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJw2bWqhPjoI8RPxRyJTsHHl4) A skate park shares the lawns with football fields ## Art 2 quests ![National Theatre, San José](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Art/ChIJIeF41GbjoI8RXG6rf0PeWuI.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇨🇷 San José [National Theatre](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJIeF41GbjoI8RXG6rf0PeWuI) A coffee harvest is painted above the stage ![Chinese Arch, San José](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Art/ChIJMT-dHWTjoI8Rb2E9UELBOTA.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇨🇷 San José [Chinese Arch](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJMT-dHWTjoI8Rb2E9UELBOTA) A tiled roof marks the way into Chinatown ## Food 3 quests ![Vegetarian Casado, San José](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Food/ChIJl3QaumHjoI8Rt7-8kU8H1hc.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇨🇷 San José [Vegetarian Casado](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJl3QaumHjoI8Rt7-8kU8H1hc) Its name means a married meal ![Olla de carne, San José](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Food/ChIJRXsUER3joI8Rb15nTEI7hdU.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇨🇷 San José [Olla de carne](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJRXsUER3joI8Rb15nTEI7hdU) A beef soup carries a whole garden ![Gallo Pinto, San José](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Food/ChIJV3iPLmLjoI8R2wqVTya7Kr8.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇨🇷 San José [Gallo Pinto](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJV3iPLmLjoI8R2wqVTya7Kr8) A cool spoonful joins the rice and beans ## Sport 1 quest ![National Stadium, San José](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Sport/ChIJ6Vqddan8oI8RokdOT0TqZeY.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇨🇷 San José [National Stadium](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJ6Vqddan8oI8RokdOT0TqZeY) China built this stadium as a gift to Costa Rica ## Party 1 quest ![Craic, San José](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Party/ChIJkyylE3vjoI8RXx5n_7a1Svs.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇨🇷 San José [Craic](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJkyylE3vjoI8RXx5n_7a1Svs) A long-running pub turns strangers into a crowd --- Costa Rica ## Photo quests in San José What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around. San José holds eleven quests across six categories, led by Food with three — though only just, with two in Art behind it. The one category with nothing in San José so far is Beach. Two of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other nine are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers eight of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway. A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point. ### By category Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the San José quests among them. - [History quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/history) — two in San José - [Nature quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/nature) — two in San José - [Art quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/art) — two in San José - [Food quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/food) — three in San José - [Sport quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/sport) — one in San José - [Party quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/party) — one in San José --- Tier 1 ## The unexpected ones The two quests in San José the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for. - [Cementerio General](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJ10nwHBzjoI8RanJ0vnXqmr8) Its graves are small buildings with stone figures History - [Central Market](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJO_ePiWPjoI8RjlsgmsfWidk) Herbs hang beside old lunch counters History --- Nearby ## Cities near San José Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country. - [Cartagena 6 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/co/cartagena) - [Medellín 10 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/co/medellin) - [Bogotá 21 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/co/bogota) - [Cancun 13 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/mx/cancun) - [Havana 3 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/cu/havana) - [Mexico City 10 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/mx/mexico-city) --- Questions ## About quests in San José ### How many photo quests are there in San José? 11, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (3), History (2) and Nature (2). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Cementerio General, La Sabana and National Theatre. ### What is there to do in San José beyond the obvious? 2 of the 11 quests in San José are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". San José holds two at tier 1, one at tier 2 and eight at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Cementerio General and Central Market, which fall under History. ### Can you do all the San José quests on one trip? Yes, given a few days. Every one of the 11 falls within 3.4 km of the middle of the San José list — walking and local transport, not day trips — so this is a list to plan a visit around rather than a reason to extend one. ### Which San José quests can you do for free? 9 of the 11 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 11 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in San José means two quests: Cementerio General and Central Market. ### How do I prove I visited a place in San José? Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in San José is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Cementerio General fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in San José sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from. --- This is the Markdown rendering of https://getmap.travel/quests/city/cr/san-jose. Site index for agents: https://getmap.travel/llms.txt