The Maxwell
The Maxwell is a residential area in Santa Clara County, California. The Maxwell is situated nearby to the railway station Japantown/Ayer station, as well as near the government office Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren.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. Japantown/Ayer station is situated 480 feet south of The Maxwell.
Issei Memorial Building
Heritage site
Photo: David Sawyer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Issei Memorial Building is a heritage site, which is situated 1,200 feet northeast of The Maxwell.
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 1,200 feet east of The Maxwell.
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.
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.
The Maxwell
- Type: Residential area
- Also known as: “First Street Apartments”
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.34659° or 37° 20′ 48″ northLongitude
-121.89761° or 121° 53′ 51″ westOperator
Elan Properties in San JoseOpen location code
849W84W2+JXOpenStreetMap ID
way 358297113OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
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