During the Pikmin Bloom Journey 2025: Challenge Anywhere event, I noticed something odd with the San Francisco postcard for the Giant Festival Mushroom.
The description says the city is famous for the Golden Gate Bridge— but the image doesn’t actually show it. Instead, it’s a mashup: the structure resembles the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, but it’s painted in the Golden Gate Bridge’s iconic color. The result is a “Frankenstein bridge” that doesn’t exist in San Francisco.
Since this postcard was part of a paid event, it is essential that Niantic accurately represents real landmarks, especially one as iconic as the Golden Gate.
Here’s a side-by-side comparison for clarity:
Golden Gate Bridge (real)
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (real)
Pikmin Bloom San Francisco Postcard (event image)
What do you all think? Did anyone else notice this mix-up?
Niantic team (cc: @NianticModAM), can you please update the postcards to reflect the true beauty of San Francisco? 
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Hi @NianticModAM thank you for getting back to me.
I wanted to follow up on a concern I reported through in-app support regarding the San Francisco postcard in the Pikmin Bloom Journey 2025: Challenge Anywhere event.
Unfortunately, the response I received (screenshot above) directed me to Niantic Wayfarer, which doesn’t address the issue at all.
To clarify:
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This postcard is not a community-submitted Wayspot, but an official in-game asset created and published by Niantic as part of a paid event.
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The postcard description says San Francisco is famous for the Golden Gate Bridge, yet the image shows a hybrid bridge: structurally resembling the Bay Bridge, painted in the Golden Gate Bridge’s International Orange.
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The result is a landmark that doesn’t exist in reality, which is misleading to international players and diminishes the authenticity of the experience.
Since this was part of a paid online event, accuracy and quality are especially important. Players should be able to trust that Niantic’s own postcards represent real-world landmarks faithfully, especially when referencing something as iconic as the Golden Gate Bridge.
I kindly request:
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That this postcard be reviewed and corrected.
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That future event assets go through proper accuracy checks before release.
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That player feedback on cultural and geographic accuracy be taken seriously, rather than redirected to unrelated systems like Wayfarer.
San Francisco is a city with a rich identity and history, and many players around the world cherish it. I believe representing its landmarks accurately is a matter of respect as well as quality.
Thank you for listening, and I hope the team can address this feedback so future events better reflect the real beauty of international landmarks.
Google Gemini said it’s a bridge in Portugal.
Wow 
, you’re absolutely right! I also double-checked with ChatGPT and Google Lens — and it looks like Pikmin Bloom ended up using the 25 de Abril Bridge from Lisbon, which makes it look like the Golden Gate and Bay Bridge had a baby 
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That said, it’s disappointing to see the wrong landmark being used for San Francisco, especially since the Golden Gate Bridge is such an iconic part of the city.
There is a community update for those who wants to their postcard to be updated to the correct image: https://community.pikminbloom.com/t/regarding-the-incorrect-postcard-image-of-festival-mushroom/11198
Thanks so much for looking into this — I really appreciate the team’s hard work and just want to make sure San Francisco is represented accurately for players around the world
I thought it was impressive that you caught the mistake. It’s very similar.
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