Empire Building

Empire Building is an office building in Santa Clara County, California, which is located on North 1st Street. Empire Building is situated near the railway station Japantown/Ayer station, as well as near the swimming pool Rotary Ryland Pool.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: 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. It is located on the western side of the Japantown district of San Jose, California at the intersection of 1st Street and Ayer Avenue, 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 1,300 feet northeast of Empire Building.

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 Empire Building.

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.

Empire Building

Type: Office building
Address: 510 North 1st Street, San Jose, 95112
Categories: building and office
Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.34518° or 37° 20′ 43″ north

Longitude

-121.89691° or 121° 53′ 49″ west

Open location code

849W84W3+36

OpenStreetMap ID

way 498258956

OpenStreetMap feature

building=office

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