Japanese American National Museum
The Japanese American National Museum is located in Los Angeles, California, and dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans.- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Los Angeles, California
- Also known as: “JANM”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Little Tokyo/Arts District station and Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.
Little Tokyo/Arts District station
Railway station
Photo: OrdinaryScarlett, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Little Tokyo/Arts District station is an underground light rail station on the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It replaced an at-grade station with the same name that was located on the east side of Alameda Street between 1st Street and Temple Street, on the edge of Little Tokyo and the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles.
Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Museum
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Geffen Contemporary at MOCA is a museum, which is situated 360 feet north of Japanese American National Museum.
Koyasan Buddhist Temple
Buddhist temple
Photo: Tktru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Koyasan Beikoku Betsuin, also known as Koyasan Buddhist Temple, is a Japanese Buddhist temple in the Little Tokyo district of Downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. Koyasan Buddhist Temple is situated 470 feet west of Japanese American National Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Tokyo and Toy District.
Little Tokyo
Quarter
Photo: Bobak, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Little Tokyo, also known as Little Tokyo Historic District, is an ethnically Japanese American district in downtown Los Angeles and the heart of the largest Japanese-American population in North America.
Toy District
Neighborhood
The Toy District is a 12-block area in eastern Downtown Los Angeles, bounded by Los Angeles Street on the west, Third and Fifth streets on the north and south and San Pedro Street on the east.
Skid Row
Quarter
Skid Row is the unofficial name for a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles officially known as Central City East. Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s.
Japanese American National Museum
- Categories: migration museum, nonprofit organization, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Japanese American National Museum” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Yaponəsilli Amerikalılar Milli Muzeyi”
- Catalan: “Museu Nacional Nipoamericà”
- Chinese: “在美日本人博物館”
- Chinese: “日裔美国人国家博物馆”
- Chinese: “日裔美國人博物館”
- Chinese: “日裔美國人國家博物館”
- French: “Japanese American National Museum”
- German: “Japanese American National Museum”
- Greek: “Αμερικανοϊαπωνικό Εθνικό Μουσείο”
- Japanese: “全米日系人博物館”
- Ukrainian: “Національний музей американців японського походження”
- Ukrainian: “Японо-американський національний музей”
- Ukrainian: “Японсько-американський національний музей”
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