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architecture and culture. Dragons perch on light posts, greeting greeting posts, light on perch Dragons culture. and architecture and especially thanks the many community volunteers who who volunteers community many the thanks especially and this dense urban area. urban dense this

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are often vacant, an unfortunate legacy of changing building codes codes building changing of legacy unfortunate an vacant, often are Program of Seattle’s Convention and Visitors Bureau, with with Bureau, Visitors and Convention Seattle’s of Program

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other traditional and modern establishments. Visitors may notice the the notice may Visitors establishments. modern and traditional other

produce markets, herbalists and and herbalists markets, produce

in doing so, to see more of Seattle’s rich cultural dimensions. dimensions. cultural rich Seattle’s of more see to so, doing in

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listed in the National Register of of Register National the in listed

communities continue to value traditions of language, music and and music language, of traditions value to continue communities

between 1909 and 1929, and is is and 1929, and 1909 between

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Photo by Tim Thompson. Tim by Photo ASIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE AMERICAN ASIAN Tlingit totem pole, Pioneer Square. Square. Pioneer pole, totem Tlingit

Asian Americans have played Lion dancers are traditionally SPECIAL EVENTS prominent roles in Seattle accompanied by gongs, drums and firecrackers, and bring Northwest Asian American Film Festival - January history from the beginning of happiness and good luck Theater Off Jackson, 409 Seventh Avenue S. Washington State’s largest showcase for Asian the city’s settlement. Chinese to Chinese community American films. www.nwaaff.org pioneers, often single men celebrations. seeking economic opportunities, Photo by Jack Storms Lunar New Year Celebration - January or February first arrived in the 1860s to work Great Hall at Union Station, 401 S Jackson Street. This multi-cultural as laborers for railroads, mines, event features lively Lion and Dragon dances; taiko drumming; canneries and sawmills. Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Filipino and Korean traditional A Chinese quarter was dance; and arts and craft booths. www.cidbia.org established on the waterfront, and later moved a few blocks International District Summer Festival - Early July east. Economic downturns , 409 Maynard Avenue S. triggered anti-Chinese violence The Northwest’s largest Asian American street fair and discriminatory laws, but the features Japanese taiko drumming, Chinese martial-arts performances, Chinese remained a vital part of Filipino dancing, Chinese Girls Drill Team, lion and dragon dance performances, the growing town. After the Seattle Fire in 1889, arts and crafts, and an array of food booths. www.cidbia.org the center of Chinatown shifted again with Asian American pioneers Storms Photos: Jack the construction of new rooming houses and immigrants created a Bon Odori - Mid July and community association buildings complex multi-ethnic urban Seattle Buddhist Temple, 1427 S Main Street. Bon Odori is a Japanese festival that east of Fifth Avenue S. neighborhood now known honors ancestors and celebrates traditions through costumes, music, food and street as the International District, and were dancing. The Bon holiday, also known as Obon, is one of the most important Japanese pioneers arrived in the 1880s, integrated into farming areas, logging Japanese Buddhist holidays of the year, and has been celebrated and worked as farmers and merchants. camps and other communities throughout the in Seattle for more than 75 years. www.seattlebetsuin.com Single men often traveled to Washington Puget Sound area. Executive Order 9066, signed Territory and sent home for “picture by President Roosevelt in 1942, forced Japanese Pista sa Nayon - Late July brides” to join them later. Discriminatory Americans on the West Coast into internment , 5902 Boulevard S laws related to land ownership camps for the duration of World War II. The This “town festival” celebrates Filipino culture, history and community on the often thwarted the hard work of the impact of this policy altered urban neighborhoods shores of Lake Washington. www.pista.org Issei (first generation Japanese and rural areas alike. immigrants), although ownership Chinatown Seafair Parade - Late July was sometimes transferred to the Since the 1960s, Seattle has become home to Streets of Chinatown/International District. The parade features drill teams, marching bands, Nisei (second generation, U.S. born Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Thai, dancers, Seafair queens, Seafair pirates, and a fabulous 100-foot long children) or held in other creative Hmong and South Asian immigrants, and a fusion Chinese dragon. www.chinesechamber.net ways. A distinct Nihonmachi, or of Pacific Rim cultures gives our region a unique Japantown, grew around S Main flavor and aesthetic. The influence of Asian cultural From Hiroshima to Hope - August 6th Street and Sixth Avenue S, north traditions can be seen everywhere in Seattle – in Northwest Shore of Green Lake. A solemn and beautiful twilight ceremony of Chinatown, which catered to architecture, garden design, regional cuisine, marks the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Wood urban residents and also supplied and the arts. and paper lanterns carrying messages of peace are created by volunteers Japanese families living in rural and floated on Green Lake in honor of those who died and in the hope that areas. While the International District nuclear weapons will never be used again. remains the heart of Seattle’s Asian Pacific Islanders have been part of American community, regional Tea Ceremonies - Various locations Pacific Northwest history since communities such as White The Urasenke Foundation regularly presents traditional tea ceremonies at native Hawaiians sailed to Puget Center, Bellevue, Federal Way locations around Seattle, including the Asian Art Museum and the Japanese Sound with Captain Vancouver Peace Lantern on Green Lake. and Shoreline boast vibrant multi- Garden. Ceremonies are part of the living art of Chado, or the Way of Tea, in 1792. In the early 20th century, after Photo by Laura Morton / The Seattle Times. ethnic restaurants and stores. part of the artistic and spiritual traditions of Japan. the Philippines became a U.S. Numerous festivals www.urasenkeseattle.com territory, many Filipinos pursued and events preserve opportunities for education and traditions, and a variety Festál is a series of family-oriented community festivals throughout the year at . Several Asian and employment in Seattle. of museums and heritage Asian-American festivals are part of this series of community events celebrating the people, traditions, arts, history, sites interpret the histories and culture, and foods that are facets of Seattle’s rich ethnic heritage. www.seattlecenter.org/Festal.htm cultures of Asian Americans in the Seattle area. SEATTLE ASIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE AMERICAN ASIAN SEATTLE Tet Vietnamese Lunar New Year - January or February Cambodian Cultural Heritage Celebration - August Japanese Goodwill Monument, Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival - April Tibet Fest - August Mt. Baker Park. Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month - May Korean Cultural Celebration - September Photo: Holly Taylor Northwest Folklife Festival - May Utsav South Asian Performing Arts Festival - October International District Dragon. Chinese Culture and Arts Festival - June Hmong New Year Celebration - November

Photo: MichaelCraftPhotography.com © 2007 Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival - June FESTÁL Hing Hay Park Japanese Garden, Arboretum 5th Avenue Theatre 423 Maynard Avenue S 9817 – 55th Avenue S, 206.684.4584 1075 Lake Washington Boulevard E, 1308 Fifth Avenue, 206.625.1900 This park plaza is the International This extensive garden in the Rainier Beach 206.684.4725 Opened in 1926, the interior of the District’s primary public square, neighborhood is the work of Japanese Located within the Washington magnificent 5th Avenue Theatre and features an ornate Chinese American Fujitaro Kubota, who founded Park Arboretum, this 3½ acre incorporates design motifs from Pavilion that was a gift from the the Kubota Gardening Company in 1923 formal garden was created in Imperial China’s Forbidden City, people of Taipei. and created the garden in 1927. The garden 1960 by renowned designer Juki Temple of Heavenly Peace, presents Pacific Northwest plant materials in Iida, and features hundreds of and Summer Palace. Frequent Wing Luke Asian Museum a traditional Japanese manner. This elegant granite boulders from the Cascade performances as well as free 407 Seventh Avenue S landscape is now a city park, and is supported by the non-profit Mountains placed among azaleas, guided tours (call in advance to 5th Avenue Theatre. May 2008: 719 S King Street Kubota Garden Foundation. www.kubota.org flowering trees and evergreens. The schedule) provide opportunities for Photo: Dick Busher 206.623.5124 garden also features stone bridges visitors to see the theatre. www.5thavenue.org The Wing Luke Asian Museum is the only pan-Asian Pacific Seattle Asian Art Museum and lanterns, a traditional tea house, American museum in the country. It is the first Smithsonian 1400 East Prospect Street in , and a koi pond wreathed in water lilies. Seattle Central Library Institution affiliate in the Pacific Northwest, and its displays 206.654.3100 www.seattle.gov/parks/parkspaces/japanesegarden.htm 1000 Fourth Avenue explore issues related to culture, art and history. The Museum The elegant art deco building in the Capitol Hill Artist George Tsutakawa’s Fountain of is named in honor of Mr. Wing Luke, who joined the Seattle neighborhood opened in 1933 as the original Bruce Lee’s Grave Wisdom graces the Fourth Avenue entrance City Council in 1962, the first Asian American to hold elected home of the Seattle Art Museum. The building Lakeview Cemetery, 1554 – 15th Avenue E, 206.322.1582 of the Central Library. This abstract bronze office in the Pacific Northwest. Chinatown Discovery Tours became the domain of Asian Art in 1994 when Acclaimed martial artist, actor and director Bruce Lee is buried sculpture was the artist’s first fountain begin at the Museum and offer guided tours of the Chinatown/ SAM opened a new museum downtown. in Lakeview Cemetery, just north of Volunteer Park. His grave, commission, and was created for Seattle’s International District. After May 2008, the Museum relocates Today, it houses one of the nation’s and that of his son Brandon Lee, are located east of the circular previous library built on the same site in to its new facility in the East Kong Yick Building. premier collections of Japanese, Korean drive in the center of the cemetery, and are often visited by fans 1959. Tsutakawa’s artwork enhances many of www.wingluke.org and Chinese art. Japanese American wishing to pay tribute to the kung fu legend. Seattle’s public spaces, including Sandworm sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s iconic Black Sun at 5th Avenue & James Street; Naramore Uwajimaya is located outside the museum. Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) Fountain at 6th Avenue & Seneca Street; and 600 Fifth Avenue S, 206.624.6248 www.seattleartmuseum.org/visit/visitSAAM.asp 2700 – 24th Avenue E, 206.324.1126 Heaven, Man & Earth at Maynard Avenue S & In 1928, Fujimatsu Moriguchi began MOHAI’s permanent exhibit Essential Seattle features Asian S Jackson Street. www.spl.org selling homemade fishcakes and other Guanyin (Avalokitesvara), 8th century, Chinese, American stories and characters from throughout the city’s Seattle Asian Art Museum Collection. items from the back of his truck to 150 year history. An exhibit titled Salmon Stakes highlights the The Chinese Room at Smith Tower Photo courtesy of Japanese laborers working in logging complex relationship between Asian American cannery workers 506 Second Avenue, 206.622.3131 Seattle Public Library. and fishing camps in the Puget Sound. Uwajimaya is still a and the fishing industry. www.seattlehistory.org The Smith Tower was Seattle’s first skyscraper family run business, and is a feast for the senses, providing when it opened in 1914, and remained the tallest building west Although the Space Needle is the most ingredients for Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Indian, Japanese, Burke Museum of Chicago for almost 50 years. The elegant Chinese Room and famous monument remaining at Seattle Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese cuisine. It also offers cooking 17th Avenue NE & NE 45th Street, open-air Observation Deck on the 35th floor offer commanding Center from the 1962 World’s Fair, there are classes, a selection of restaurants and gifts in a space that fills 206.543.5590 views of Seattle, the harbor and surrounding mountains. The three notable features from the Fair that are MUSEUMS & HERITAGE SITES MUSEUMS & HERITAGE a square block. www.uwajimaya.com The Burke Museum of Natural History Chinese Room is appointed with an antique hand-carved ceiling, associated with Asian American heritage. and Culture is located on the University lacquered furniture and artwork, all gifts of the last Empress of Kobo at Higo of Washington campus. The museum’s long China. Opening times vary. www.chineseroom.com The Kobe Bell was given to Seattle in 1962 604 S Jackson Street, 206.381.3000 term exhibit Pacific Voices features the arts, by its first sister city, Kobe, Japan, and is Kobo occupies the former home of the Higo Variety Store, ceremonies and stories of Asian and Asian Beacon Hill Parks housed in a pagoda made of Japanese which was run by the Murakami family continuously for 75 American cultures and communities The Beacon Hill neighborhood is one of Seattle’s most cypress near the Intiman Theatre. Other years. Vintage store fixtures, antique paintings and historic around the Pacific Rim. culturally diverse, and two parks commemorate aspects of gifts from the people of Kobe include Japanese pine and exhibits complement a contemporary gallery featuring furniture, www.washington.edu/burkemuseum Asian American heritage and offer views of Seattle and the cherry trees and a stone lantern at Kobe Terrace Park in the textiles, works on paper and photography. Lao Spirit House, Burke surrounding area. www.koboseattle.com International District. Museum Collection. Sadako Peace Park Panama Hotel & Tea House NE Pacific Street & NE 40th Street 607 S Main Street, 206.515.4000 The Peace Park at the northwest corner

The Panama Hotel is a National Historic Landmark, and provides CENTER SEATTLE of University Bridge near the University a unique glimpse into Seattle’s Japanese American history. Built of Washington is named in honor of in 1910 in the center of Seattle’s Nihonmachi (Japantown), the Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese girl Japanese American artist Paul Horiuchi designed the monumental hotel operated a sento, or traditional Japanese bathhouse, in who survived the bombing of Hiroshima mural near the Space Needle, which gives the Mural Amphitheater the basement. The Panama continues to operate as a hotel and but later died from radiation sickness. its name. The mural is made from 160 shades of glass mosaic on tea house, and offers educational tours. Historic photographs The park was created in 1990 by peace 54 concrete slabs, and was considered to be the largest work of of the neighborhood are on display, and a cut-away portion of activist Floyd Schmoe. The statue of art in the Northwest at the time of its completion. the tea room floor offers a poignant view of items left behind by Sadako and the Thousand Sadako is often draped with garlands of Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII and did Cranes sculpture was created folded paper cranes which symbolize The Pacific Science Center, originally the U.S. Science Pavilion, not return to Seattle to claim their personal belongings. by artist Daryl Smith. Photo hope for peace in the world. was designed by Seattle-born Minoru Yamasaki in association with www.panamahotelseattle.com by Astrid Cerny. www.sadako.org NBBJ Architects. The Pavilion features Panama Hotel & Tea House five graceful arches that rise high above Pike Place Market East is West mosaic artwork by Valeriano Laigo. reflecting pools, blending Japanese and First Avenue & Pike Street Gothic aesthetics. Yamasaki went on Seattle’s hundred year old public market has a strong connection Dr. Jose Rizal Park at 1008 – 12th Avenue S is named in to design the IBM Building and Rainier to Asian American communities. In the honor of a hero of Philippine independence. The Park features Tower in Seattle, and the ill-fated World early 20th century, the majority of market artwork by Filipino American artist Valeriano Laigo, and views of Trade Center in New York City. stalls were filled by Japanese American downtown Seattle and Elliott Bay. farmers, who supplied Seattle residents Minor Ave N www.seattlecenter.com with an abundance of berries and seasonal Taejon Park at 1144 Sturgus Avenue S is named in honor of BroadwayBroadway AveAve FairviewFairview AveAve NN University of Washington Libraries, Special vegetables grown on truck farms in the Seattle’s South Korean sister city. The Park features a traditional Collections Division, #UW10571. Green River Valley and other nearby areas. Korean pavilion and views of Mount Rainier. BorenBoren AveAve NN ATTRACTIONS MAP Today, many Hmong and other Southeast TerryTerry AveAve NN Asian immigrants grow and sell summer Westlake Ave N bouquets and a variety of produce. 9th9th AveAve NN www.pikeplacemarket.org ToTo WoodlandWoodland ParkPark ZooZoo Burke Museum Photo by Jack Storms 8th8th AveAve NN

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Sadako Peace Park Minor Ave Great Wall Mall Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection 18230 East Valley Highway, Kent 425.251.1600 33663 Weyerhaeuser Way S., Federal Way 253.924.3153 Mercer St Mercer St AuroraAurora AveAve NN Boylston Ave MOHAI This remarkable Pan-Asian experience highlights Chinese, An outdoor museum of living art, the Bonsai Collection features Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Filipino and Taiwanese more than 50 outstanding bonsai from six Pacific Rim nations. ThomasThomas StSt Summit Ave Republican St Terry Ave cultures. The Great Wall Mall merchants range from an expansive Bonsai are miniaturized trees shaped by artists to suggest large Roy St 6th6th AveAve NN Boren-Pike-PineBoren-Pike-Pine ParkPark Bruce Lee’s Grave

Howell St food market to a traditional herbalist, and serve increasingly scenic trees in nature. The collection is located in a woodland TaylorTaylor AveAve NN JohnJohn StSt Howell St Harrison St 9th Ave diverse communities south of Seattle. setting on the Weyerhaeuser Company’s corporate campus 5th Ave N 5th Ave N Seattle Center www.greatwallmall.com approximately 30 minutes south of Seattle. BusBus SEATTLE 8th Ave Minor Ave www.weyerhaeuser.com/bonsai CENTER TerminalTerminal Seattle Asian Art Museum White River Valley Museum 7th Ave Pike BorenPlace AveMarket 1st1st AveAve NN Boren Ave 918 H Street SE, Auburn 253.288.7433 Denny Way Japanese Garden, Exhibits highlight the Japanese American community that once Experience 6th Ave Experience Terry Ave Arboretum flourished in South King County’s rich farming areas, including Formosan juniper by artist Amy Virginia St Stewart St Center Virginia St Stewart St Center 5th Avenue Theatre Music Project CONVENTION CENTER a display recreating the Iseri family’s farmhouse in the historic Liang Chang, courtesy of the OliveOlive Way Way Citywide Concierge Citywide Concierge Weyerhaeuser Company. 5th Ave 9th Ave community of Thomas. www.wrvmuseum.org 2nd2nd AveAve NN Seattle Central Library W Republican St The Chinese Room at Space Needle FreewayFreeway ParkPark 4th Ave 8th AveSmith Tower Washington State History Museum W Harrison St QueenQueen AnneAnne 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma 888.238.4373 TilikumTilikum PlacePlace WestlakeParkPark Taejon Park and 3rd Ave 7th Ave Stories of Asian American pioneers and immigrants are woven AveAve NN 3rd Ave W Thomas St Dr. Jose Rizal Park AFIELD FURTHER into exhibits on Washington’s early agriculture and industry, as RegradeRegrade ParkPark 6th Ave CherryCherry StSt well as more recent events such as the Japanese American 2nd Ave JamesJames StSt AlderAlder StSt internment during WWII. www.wshs.org Broad St Clay St Broad St Clay St Pine St Pine St Pike St Vine St Pike St Union St INT’L DISTRICT DETAIL John St Cedar St Vine St Union St John St Cedar St Wall St Wall St 5th Ave Battery St Battery St Bell St Bell St UniversityUniversity StSt Blanchard St Blanchard St Lenora St Lenora St 1st Ave Elliott Avenue Seneca St Yesler Way Bloedel Reserve Seneca St 4th Ave Yesler Way Western Ave 7571 NE Dolphin Drive, Bainbridge Island 206.842.7631 PIKEPIKE PLACEPLACE MARKETMARKET Wing Luke Asian Museum SS WashingtonWashingtonSS MainMain StSt StSt The rock and sand Zen garden is one of highlights of this historic Park 6th6th AveAve SS garden on Bainbridge Island, less than an hour west of Seattle SteinbrueckSteinbrueckPark SpringSpring StSt Panama Hotel & Tea House 5th5th AveAve SS SS JacksonJackson StSt by ferry. A traditional Japanese garden surrounds an elegant TerraceTerrace Alaskan Way MadisonMadison StSt guesthouse on this former private estate which is now open to Post Alley JeffersonJefferson StSt SS KingKing StSt Olympic the public. Reservations are required. www.bloedelreserve.org Kobo at Higo SS WellerWeller StSt Sculpture Park Sculpture Park CityCity Park ParkHallHall 33 Yao Japanese Garden at the Bellevue Botanical Garden MarionMarion StSt rdrd SS LaneLane StSt 2nd2nd AveAve SS Kubota Garden 12001 Main Street, Bellevue 425.452.2750 PierPier 7070 ColumbiaColumbia StSt Uwajimaya AveAve SS PierPier 6969 The Yao Garden is a Northwest interpretation of a Japanese PierPier 5959 7th7th AveAve SS PierPier 6767 Pioneer strolling garden, and was named for Bellevue’s sister city in Pioneer MaynardMaynard AveAve SS Pier 62 & 63 Pier 62 &Seattle 63 AquariumPier 57 SquareSquare ParkPark Hing Hay Park Japan. The Tateuchi Viewing Pavilion just outside the Yao Garden Pier 66/Bell St. Waterfront Pier Park 57 Pier 66/Bell St. KingKing St.St. overlooks the Bellevue Botanical Garden’s hillside plantings. Conference Center OccidentalSquareSquare Station Bell HarborConference InternationalCruise Center Terminal PierPier 5656 Station www.bellevuebotanical.org PierPier 5555 AMTRAKAMTRAK PierPier 5454 PIONEEROccidentalOccidental AveAve SS PierPier 5252 SS DearbornDearborn StSt SQUARE1st Ave S 1st Ave S Qwest Elliott Bay FieldField WAFerries State Ferries (football)(football)

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