Japantown
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.Photo: BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighborhood in San Jose, California, United States
- Also known as: “Japantown, San Jose”, “Japantown, San Jose, California”, and “Nihonmachi”
Places of Interest
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.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Luna Park and San Jose.
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.
Downtown Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: David Sawyer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California is a designated U.S. Historic District area of the city roughly the size of one square block. It is bounded by S.
Japantown
- Categories: Japantown and locality
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.34896° or 37° 20′ 56″ northLongitude
-121.89423° or 121° 53′ 39″ westOpen location code
849W84X4+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 286903523OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q6159203
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Urdu—“Japantown” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “日本城 (聖荷西)”
- Chinese: “日本城”
- Chinese: “日本町”
- French: “Japantown”
- Japanese: “ジャパンタウン”
- Japanese: “日本町”
- Urdu: “جاپان ٹاؤن، سان ہوزے”
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