If you are going to a doctor in Pasadena the chances are good that her office will be within walking distance of the Fillmore station. The Huntington Hospital is about three blocks from the station and it is surrounded by building after building full of medical offices and facilities.

A tall weather vane is the art work at Fillmore station. Is the message: "Metro train travel is the way the wind is blowing?"  For seating there are "old fashioned trunks" spread along the platform.

The art on the base of the weather vane tower  is intriguing.

Take a closer look and you will see, in the photo above, houses lining a train track--let's assume it is the Metro Gold Line--then six lanes of traffic on a freeway.  Does one Metro Line equal six lanes of jam-packed freeway?  

For only one week a year there is another reason to disembark at the Fillmore Station: the Rose Palace of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses.

Two floats for the Rose Parade are traditionally constructed and decorated at the Rose Palace on Raymond about a block south of the Fillmore station. (Most floats are created out in Irwindale in gigantic barns.)  

You can take a tour of the Rose Palace for a fee during the week before the Rose Parade.  Or you can volunteer to work on the decorations for the floats--for free.  Expect to work an 8 hour shift in an unheated building if you volunteer.  

The Rose Palace is not the headquarters for the Tournament of Roses.  The headquarters--actually the old Wrigley Mansion--is on Orange Grove Avenue about a mile and a half away.

As for "eats"...well, there is a Starbucks right beside the station and a Sizzler across the street, but you would be better off going on to the Del Mar or Memorial Park stations to find interesting dining in Old Town Pasadena.