Japantown, San Jose

Japantown
Japantown
	Neighborhood of San Jose
	Top to right: San Jose Obon Festival; Nijiya Market; Japantown Insignia, the intersection of Jackson and N. 5th st.; San Jose Betsuin Temple.
	Japantown
	Coordinates: 37°20′54″N 121°53′44″W / 37.348463°N 121.895421°W / 37.348463; -121.895421 (Japantown)Coordinates: 37°20′54″N 121°53′44″W / 37.348463°N 121.895421°W / 37.348463; -121.895421 (Japantown)
Country	United States
State	California
County	Santa Clara
City	San Jose
ZIP Code	95112
Area code(s)	Area code 408

Japantown (also known as Nihonmachi (ja: 日本町) or J Town) is a historic residential, commercial, and cultural district of San Jose, California, north of Downtown San Jose.^[1]^[2]

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.

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^ Domrose, Cathryn (16 June 2000). "Japantown Thrives in Culturally Diverse San Jose / Obon Festival is a summer highlight". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 10 February 2017.