Japan Center
The Japan Center is a shopping center in the Japantown neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened in March 1968 and was originally called the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Commerce
- Description: shopping mall in California, United States
- Also known as: “Japan Center (San Francisco)” and “Japanese Cultural and Trade Center”
- Address: CA
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Fillmore and AMC Kabuki 8.
The Fillmore
Theater building
The Fillmore is a historic music venue in San Francisco, California. Built in 1912 and originally named the Majestic Hall, it became the Fillmore Auditorium in 1954. The Fillmore is situated 850 feet southwest of Japan Center.
AMC Kabuki 8
Movie theater
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
AMC Kabuki 8 is a movie theater in the Japan Center complex in San Francisco's Japantown neighborhood. AMC Kabuki 8 is situated 590 feet west of Japan Center.
San Francisco Peace Pagoda
Building
Photo: Jaredzimmerman (WMF), CC BY 3.0.
The San Francisco Peace Pagoda is a five-tiered concrete stupa between Post and Geary Streets at Buchanan in San Francisco's Nihonmachi. The Pagoda, located in the southwestern corner of Peace Plaza between the Japan Center Mall and Nihonmachi Mall, was constructed in the 1960s and presented to San Francisco by its sister city Osaka, Japan on March 28, 1968.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Japantown and Fillmore District.
Japantown
Neighborhood
Photo: Beland, Public domain.
Japantown, also known historically as Japanese Town, is a neighborhood in the Western Addition district of San Francisco, California. Japantown comprises about six city blocks and is considered one of the largest and oldest ethnic enclaves in the United States.
Fillmore District
Neighborhood
The Fillmore District is a historical neighborhood in San Francisco. Definitions vary, but it is generally treated as either a synonym or subneighborhood of the Western Addition and is centered on the strip of Fillmore Street south of Geary Boulevard to about McAllister or Fulton Street.
Western Addition
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
A mostly residential area of San Francisco, Western Addition stretches west from downtown's Civic Center area to Arguello Boulevard north of the Panhandle parkway.
Japan Center
- Categories: fixed construction, architectural structure, and tourism
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.78515° or 37° 47′ 7″ northLongitude
-122.43054° or 122° 25′ 50″ westElevation
144 feet (44 metres)Open location code
849VQHP9+3QOpenStreetMap ID
way 148544211OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=commercialOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=yesWikidata ID
Q12060849
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In Other Languages
“Japan Center” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “ジャパンセンター”
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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 “Japan Center”. Photo: BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0.