Japanese American Museum of San Jose
The Japanese American Museum of San Jose is located at 535 N. Fifth Street in San Jose, in the heart of Japantown. The museum's mission is to collect, preserve, and share Japanese American art, history, and culture with an emphasis on the Greater San Francisco Bay Area.Photo: Myasuda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Opening hours:
Monday—Wednesday: closed
Thursday—Sunday: noon—4:00 PM - Type: Museum
- Description: museum in San Jose, California
- Also known as: “JAMsj” and “Japanese American Museum”
- Address: 535 North 5th Street, San Jose, CA 95112
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Issei Memorial Building and Heinlenville Park.
Issei Memorial Building
Heritage site
Photo: David Sawyer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Issei Memorial Building is a heritage site.
Heinlenville Park
Park
Heinlenville was a Chinese-American ethnic enclave in San Jose, California. Established in 1887 and demolished in 1931, it was the last and longest-lasting of San Jose's five Chinatowns. Heinlenville Park is situated 1,100 feet north of Japanese American Museum of San Jose.
Japantown/Ayer station
Railway station
Photo: Pedro Xing, CC0.
Japantown/Ayer station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. The station is located in San Jose, California on 1st Street just north of Empire Street. Japantown/Ayer station is situated 1,300 feet southwest of Japanese American Museum of San Jose.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Japantown and Luna Park.
Japantown
Suburb
Photo: BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Japantown, commonly known as J Town, is a historic cultural district of San Jose, California, north of Downtown San Jose. Historically a center for San Jose's Japanese American and Chinese American communities, San Jose's Japantown is one of only three Japantowns that still exist in the United States, alongside San Francisco's Japantown and Los Angeles's Little Tokyo.
Luna Park
Suburb
Luna Park is a neighborhood in San Jose, California. It is bounded by Old Oakland Road/13th Street, Berryessa Road/Highway 101 and North 17th Street. It is named after the Luna Park amusement park built by Audley Ingersoll's of Ingersoll's Amusement and financed by the San Jose Street Car Company as a way of bringing more customers to the area.
San Jose
Photo: Ed Schipul, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Often called "the capital of Silicon Valley", San Jose is the largest city in the Bay Area, 3rd largest in California, and the 12th largest city in the United States, with a population of over 997,000 residents as of 2024.
Japanese American Museum of San Jose
- Categories: history museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.3475° or 37° 20′ 51″ northLongitude
-121.89371° or 121° 53′ 37″ westElevation
72 feet (22 metres)Open location code
849W84X4+2GOpenStreetMap ID
way 350497048OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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In Other Languages
“Japanese American Museum of San Jose” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “サンノゼ日系人博物館”
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