Hensley Historic District

Places of Interest

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.

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.

Places in the Area

Japantown

Suburb

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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.

Hensley Historic District

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Localities in the Area

Notable Places Nearby

Curious Neighborhoods to Discover

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