Nikkei Lantern
Nikkei Lantern is a memorial in Santa Clara County, California. Nikkei Lantern is situated nearby to the suburb Japantown, as well as near The Get Down.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Issei Memorial Building and Japanese American Museum of San Jose.
Issei Memorial Building
Heritage site
Photo: David Sawyer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Issei Memorial Building is a heritage site, which is situated 360 feet south of Nikkei Lantern.
Japanese American Museum of San Jose
Museum
Photo: Myasuda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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. Japanese American Museum of San Jose is situated 540 feet south of Nikkei Lantern.
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 640 feet north of Nikkei Lantern.
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.
Nikkei Lantern
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “FEBRUARY / 19 / 1942”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.34893° or 37° 20′ 56″ northLongitude
-121.89423° or 121° 53′ 39″ westOperator
Japantown Community Congress of San JoseNamed after
Japanese diasporaOpen location code
849W84X4+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 11520416478OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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