San José’s Chinatowns
San José’s Chinatowns is a historic site in Santa Clara County, California. San José’s Chinatowns is situated nearby to Heinlenville Park, as well as near Prayer Garden Church of God.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Heinlenville Park and San Jose Betsuin Buddhist Temple.
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.
Issei Memorial Building
Heritage site
Photo: David Sawyer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Issei Memorial Building is a heritage site, which is situated 940 feet south of San José’s Chinatowns.
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.
San José’s Chinatowns
- Type: Sign
- Categories: information, tourism, historic site, and memorial
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.3505° or 37° 21′ 2″ northLongitude
-121.89377° or 121° 53′ 38″ westOpen location code
849W9424+6FOpenStreetMap ID
node 11258988930OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=information
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In Other Languages
“San José’s Chinatowns” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “聖荷西唐人埠”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Prayer Garden Church of God and Filipino Community Center.
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