Best Tennis and Pickleball courts in San Jose, Santa Clara County for 2025

Arena Green East in San Jose

Summary / Description

2 lighted tennis courts, 4 new dedicated pickleball courts adjacent to Little Italy / Arena Green East near Downtown San Jose. The northern-most tennis court at Arena Green East (along Highway 87 between W. St. John & Santa Clara) is converted into 3 dedicated pickleball courts – with lights! These new courts are located next to the Guadalupe River Park Trail & along bike-friendly city streets. No shade. No dedicated parking. Parking can be a challenge during Sharks game days. These are the first known public pickleball courts in San Jose only steps from amazing dining options in Little Italy & Downtown SJ.

Courts are located adjacent to Highway 87 & Downtown San Jose, and are opened & operational from early August 2025!
These courts include a 6 foot tall divider fence in between the two north courts & the two south courts, with a 4 foot gap on each side of the fencing to allow folks to pass through. The pickleball courts are also LIT every night!

It has tennis and soccer courts. Park is a bit dirty and abandoned. Some homeless people are around. Legendary spot to catch Pokemon, with four Pokestops at the road.

Court Information

Address: 340 W St John St, San Jose, CA 95110, USA
City: San Jose
County: Santa Clara County
State: California
Postal Code: 95110
Google Maps Link: Google Maps
Google Location Link: Location
Place Type: Park
Number of Tennis Courts: 2
Number of Pickleball Courts: 4
Court Location: Outdoor
Access Type: Public

Working Hours

DayHours
Monday
5:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Tuesday
5:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Wednesday
5:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Thursday
5:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Friday
5:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Saturday
5:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Sunday
5:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Location Map

Amenities & Features

CategoryAvailable Features
Core Amenities
LightsNo RestroomsNo Water FountainNo BenchesFencing
Court Surface
Hard Court
Environment Features
No Shade
Access Details
Free Entry
Court Condition
DirtyWell MaintainedMixed Noise LevelSafety Concerns
Parking
Free Street ParkingPaid Street Parking
Nearby Facilities
Pickleball Nearby

Dog & Pet Information

Dog Rules: Dogs must be leashed and under control. Dog owners are responsible for cleaning up after their dogs.
No Dogs Allowed

Reviews & Ratings

Overall Rating
4.3 out of 5 stars (33 reviews)
What Visitors Say
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Positive Reviews:
Dinesh Yalla: ★★★★
This is a good place for an evening walk. It has public Tennis courts where ppl usually gather for Tennis, bicycle polo, and cricket.
Samuel Ambrocio: ★★★★
Very good place for tennis
Wilson Chu: ★★★★★
Near downtown San Jose with few tennis courts.
Richard: ★★★★★
These 2 courts are good quality and have nighttime lighting too. Nets are a little bit loose and one of the courts has a crack down the middle, but otherwise not bad..Edit: San Jose has been great at keeping this maintained. I regularly submit issues like broken lighting or nets via the 311 app and they get fixed within a week
Leon Ransom: ★★★★
Fairly large homeless population here. It is quiet and for anyone who may have trepidations....you have nothing to fear. The courts are extremely nice, fully enclosed and unless you are worse at tennis than I am you will not have to concern yourself with losing tennis balls. I will surely make use of this facility again. The one thing that is an issue is parking. Wherever you find a place to park, you will have to feed a meter. The walk from the car to the courts offers a great opportunity to get loose.
Ron Alberto (Sun Roc): ★★★★★
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Tracy Anderson: ★★★★★
Friday afternoons and evenings it's literally a Pokémon takeover. There's hot dog and ice cream vendors. Make sure your bag is full because even though there are pokestops you can literally catch one Pokémon after another and you'll run out of pokè balls faster than you can pick up new items.
Kathryn Hedges: ★★★★★
Legendary spot to catch Pokemon, with four Pokestops at the road. Most evenings, players put lures on the stops for drive-in hunting!
Neutral Reviews:
Darsh Patel: ★★★
Huge park with many fields and 4 tennis courts. They have removed the nets from 3 of those and people play soccer, cricket and cycle polo there. DO NOT park in front of the tennis courts. I do not recommend going there after sunset.
Jagadeesh Rahul: ★★★
This place has two courts. One of the court is damages with plenty of cracks on the court that could significantly impact your game. This place is does not need any reservation. Pros is that it has lighting facility for night games and a beautiful view of the Adobe and SAP centre. Parking was a hassle on games day at sap centre. As it’s close to downtown it’s pretty packed at eve and on weekends
Negative Reviews:
Aaron Jones: ★★
Weve played bike polo on court 4 for over 6 years and have seen this park turn into a homeless camp that’s borderline dangerous, been asking San Jose parks dept to fix the lights and trashed out homeless camp for a few months now, there are rats living all among the homeless, it’s so disgusting
Julio RA: ★
The ugliest green space I've seen. Trash everywhere with homeless encampments all over. Shade is rarers. Unless u have a bike that you zoom buy everything I recommend skipping this parkk outing.
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Kyle O'Dea: ★★
Courts are ok. Only two are set up for tennis and the nets are sagging. Lights also do not seem to work.
Corsentino (Corsentino): ★★
Some homeless nearby, and cracks on the court.
Shobhit Singhal: ★
Decent park, but its been taken over by the homeless. I used the tennis courts today and the stench was unbearable. The homeless people have cut through the tennis court fences and set up their shanties right next to them. There is poop and urine everywhere on the courts and I can't shake off the feeling of disease and disgust even after several hours. Going to find other courts to play on. The park management should do something about the homeless situation here.
James Wolak: ★
This park could be magnificent but instead the city has allowed it to be overran by unhoused while they argue with nonprofits about what to call the homeless. It has an amazing bike path, playground, merry go round, museum, tennis courts, soccer court, baseball fields, community gardens, rose garden and more. But they are all ruined now, and it’s not from lack of funding it’s from incompetence.
Sarah Yoon: ★
Went around 6:30 and there were lots of homeless people in the area including people who were undressing. Not very clean and lots of broken glass in the area
Tracy Anderson: ★★★★★
Make sure your bag is full because even though there are pokestops you can literally catch one Pokémon after another and you'll run out of pokè balls faster than you can pick up new items
Aaron Jones: ★★
Weve played bike polo on court 4 for over 6 years and have seen this park turn into a homeless camp that’s borderline dangerous, been asking San Jose parks dept to fix the lights and trashed out homeless camp for a few months now, there are rats living all among the homeless, it’s so disgusting
Julio RA: ★
Unless u have a bike that you zoom buy everything I recommend skipping this parkk outing

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