San Jose Japantown

Originally constructed as a Japanese boarding house between 1890 and 1905, Mr. Ng purchased the property in 1915 as the new site for Ken Ying Low, the Chinese restaurant he […] READ MORE

Constructed as Ideal Laundry in 1929 by Japanese laundryman Ichimatsu Tsurukawa, Frank Kurotsuchi later opened his barber shop at this location. In 1949, the Nishioka Brothers’ Fish Market and Grocery […] READ MORE

When the first Japanese began to arrive in San Jose in the 1890s, they settled east of Sixth Street between Jackson and Taylor street, near the Heinlenville Chinatown. Named for […] READ MORE