Japantown/Ayer station
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pedro Xing, CC0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: VTA light rail station in San Jose, California
- Also known as: “Japantown–Ayer” and “Japantown/Ayer”
- Wheelchair access: yes
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 1,400 feet northeast of Japantown/Ayer station.
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 1,300 feet northeast of Japantown/Ayer station.
SAP Center
Stadium
Photo: Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
SAP Center at San Jose is an indoor arena located in San Jose, California. Its primary tenant is the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League, for which the arena has earned the nickname "The Shark Tank". SAP Center is situated 1 mile south of Japantown/Ayer station.
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 station
- Categories: tram stop, bus station, station, and transportation
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.3453° or 37° 20′ 43″ northLongitude
-121.89737° or 121° 53′ 51″ westNetwork
VTAOpen location code
849W84W3+43OpenStreetMap ID
node 6309492427OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=bus_stationOpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q6159205
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In Other Languages
“Japantown/Ayer station” goes by many names.
- French: “Japantown–Ayer”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Japantown/Ayer station”. Photo: Pedro Xing, CC0.