Japantown/Ayer
Japantown/Ayer is a railway stop in Santa Clara County, California. Japantown/Ayer is situated nearby to the swimming pool Rotary Ryland Pool, as well as near Ryland Park.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Japantown/Ayer station and Issei Memorial Building.
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.
Issei Memorial Building
Heritage site
Photo: David Sawyer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Issei Memorial Building is a heritage site, which is situated 1,400 feet northeast of Japantown/Ayer.
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 1,400 feet northeast of Japantown/Ayer.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Japantown and San Jose.
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.
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/Ayer
- Type: Railway stop
- Categories: transport stop and transportation
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.34498° or 37° 20′ 42″ northLongitude
-121.89719° or 121° 53′ 50″ westOperator
Santa Clara Valley Transportation AuthorityNetwork
VTAOpen location code
849W84V3+X4OpenStreetMap ID
node 312395178OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stop
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