Japanese House

Japanese House is a building in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania which is located on North Horticultural Drive. Japanese House is situated nearby to the public building Fairmount Park Horticulture Center, as well as near Please Touch Museum.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Shofuso Japanese House and Garden and Please Touch Museum.

Shofuso Japanese House and Garden

Garden

Photo: Kandrews1967, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Shofuso, also known as Japanese House and Garden, is a 17th century-style Japanese house and garden in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was originally exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1954, designed by the famed modernist Japanese architect Junzō Yoshimura.

Please Touch Museum

Museum

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Please Touch Museum is a children's museum located in the Centennial District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The museum focuses on teaching children through interactive exhibits and special events, mostly aimed at children seven years old and younger. Please Touch Museum is situated 1,300 feet southeast of Japanese House.

Fairmount Park Horticulture Center

Public building

The Horticultural Center in Philadelphia, USA, contains an arboretum, greenhouse, demonstration gardens, and an exhibition hall. It is located within Fairmount Park at the southeast corner of Belmont and Montgomery Drives. Fairmount Park Horticulture Center is situated 1,100 feet northeast of Japanese House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Parkside and Mill Creek.

Parkside

Neighborhood

Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.

Parkside is a neighborhood that is located in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Mill Creek

Neighborhood

Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.

Mill Creek is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It sits between 44th and 52nd Streets, north of Market Street and south of Girard Avenue.

Wynnefield

Neighborhood

Wynnefield is a diverse middle-class neighborhood in West Philadelphia. Its borders are 53rd Street at Jefferson to the south, Philadelphia's Fairmount Park to the east, City Avenue to the north and the Amtrak Philadelphia Main Line tracks to the west.

Japanese House

Type: Building
Address: North Horticultural Drive, Philadelphia, PA
Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.98139° or 39° 58′ 53″ north

Longitude

-75.21296° or 75° 12′ 47″ west

Elevation

98 feet (30 metres)

Height

27 feet (8.2 metres)

Open location code

87F6XQJP+HR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 486980404

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

GeoNames ID

4558839

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