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The Heart of San Francisco's Nihonmachi The Heart of San Francisco’s 101 Golden Gate San Francisco Bay Nihonmachi (Japantown) . LVD . B OMBARD ST Pacific N 1 L L WAY O BROAD 80 Ocean C Presidio N I F L V I . L A T L N S 2 Japanese American Businesses at Post & Buchanan Streets M T. S 5 EARY Japantown N G O T E H Y. R EPW S E RY A S GE LVD. RY B GEA A A S V T V . MARKET Sutro T. ST. 1910, 1940, 1950, 1970, and 2000 Heights FULTON S FELL . ST. Park KENNEDY DR OAK Golden Gate Park 101 AY . LINCOLN W T S T S H G U I N R R Maps by Ben Pease N 1 D E O S 9 I A E T S T T 280 H Twin S I S A H T B Peaks M . V L 101 W V . Y D . R D Glen Stern Grove/ Canyon OLA Pine Lake Park RT Park O SLOAT BLVD. P Zoo 35 1 These maps are part of a set of maps I have drawn of Japanese 280 OC Lake EAN AV. John S K Merced McLaren Y G American businesses districts in San Francisco and other L ENEV Park I N E A AV cities showing how they have changed over time. B L V D . SAN FRANCISCO Buildings are based on Sanborn Insurance Map Co. maps of 1910, 1929, 1951, and 1987, from microfilm at the San Francisco Public Library History Room. I redrew the maps Map Legend: and copied buildings forward and backward to match what Dwellings (single residences) existed at the featured dates, based on directory and historic photo evidence. Buildings may or may not be accurate for Flats and Apartments the dates shown. Hotels, Housekeeping Rooms, Boarding Houses, etc. Japanese American business and institution names are from Churches & Synagogues old directories published by newspapers such as the Hokkubei Mainichi, Nichibei Times, Japanese American News, and Community Facilities others. They are provided courtesy of Mr. Seizo Oka, curator (Schools, social, government, etc.) of the Japanese American History Archives (JAHA) in San Japanese American Businesses Francisco. Maps also build on a set of maps at JAHA created and Institutions Generic business use from in 1990 by the Japantown Arts & Media Worshop (JAM). Sanborn Insurance map notes Map ©1998-2018 by Ben Pease. Building Symbols: I have created similar maps for 24 historic Japantowns in Building California, including the wider San Francisco Japantown area, Porch or overhang, open structure, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Marysville, and more. also lumber piles thanks in part to a 2006 California Civil Liberties Public Education Project, at www.japantownatlas.com Partition within building Barn, stable, or hayloft – Ben Pease Property Line Stairs PEASE PRESS CARTOGRAPHY 2B Number of Stories 1717 Cabrillo Street, San Francisco, CA 94121 • (415) 387-1437 153 Street Address Website: www.peasepress.com • Japantownatlas.com Email: [email protected] Apartments LAGUNA 1541 1539 1537 1535 1543 1619 1617-13 above 1551 1547 1523 1611 1611.5 1500 1 1600 3 1701 Store 2B 2B 3 1601 Drug Store Tailor Taisho Inouye 1703 Dwelling Store 9 Flats 1 Dry Goods Grocery 2B Shokai Toyo Church 1B 1603 Izutsu Dry Goods Dwelling Reformed Morikawa 1705 Miyamoto Kairiku Shokai Dressmaker Sasaki-doko Barber Shop Restaurant Store Chiyoda Shoten Laguna Pool Hall Insurance Agency Insurance 1707 2B Aichi-kan Hotel 1 Dwelling 1 Red Cross Candy Store ©2003 Ben Pease www.peasepress.com 1B Osaka Drug2 1620 1615 1 1615A Insurance Agency T. Naritomi, midwife3B 1 (1915 map) 1512 HEMLOCK Dwelling Dwelling Store 1709 Vacant 1516 Shed 1 2 1624 1623 3B 3B 2B Itatani Watch N. Murayama 1625 Japanese Lodgings Apartments Saint HIllaire 1725 Dwelling1B 1 3 Flats 1727 Repair Shop Midwife 1625A Pool Hall in B. 1518 1B 1522 1628 1729 6 Flats Dwelling 2 3B 3B 1731 Dwelling 1 Dwelling 3 Flats Teikoku Hospital Yoshinaga Photo Studio 1733 Dwelling 3 Hiroshima-ya Hotel2B 1524-28 1735 1632-36 2B 2B 3 Flats Kinmon Tailors 1 Dwelling 1530-32 1 Taisho-tei 1 Minato Zushi Restaurant 1639 2B 1737 1 Kawakami Restaurant3 2 2 1640 Bath House 1 Azuma-ya Kinko Ryokan Hotel Dwelling Tailor 1739 Dwelling Flats 1642 1 Osaka Stable Restaurant 1 (Japanese) 1534 2B 1647 Hinode Shokai General Hamumei-kan 2B 2B Kyushu-ya Hotel 1540 Boarding House 1647A1 Mdse. & Shoe Store 1745-51 Chinese Laundry 1644-48 1647B 1 Oriental Employment Agency Nihon Gakuin (school) 1 1544 1753 3B U. Sano, Midwife 2 1650 Aki Hotel 3B 1546 Dwelling 1655 Minato-yu Bath House 1657 Block 699 POST (930) Fukugumi Tailors 1550 1 1659 2 1759 Japanese Dwelling (1915 map) 3 1552 Block 686 Kindergarten Suruya Sugu-ya 1655 2 Flats Confectionary 1656 1657 1 Tailors 1763 1659 1662-70 2 2B Okubo 1 1661 Shed 1765 Higaki Dentist 1562.5 Dental Office 2B 1663 2 Flats 1562 2 Flats Dwelling Mori Drug Store 2 2B 1771 Dwelling Tokai Ryoken Hotel 1672 1669 Kameyata Shoten 1671 Ogura-An Restaurant 1B 2B Grocery 1 1773 Dwelling 1 Murakami Pool Hall3 Rooms 1676-78 1673 2B Kameoka Employment 1675 Agency 1677 2 2 1783 1683 Dwelling 2B 1684 Mitani 2B Tailors 3 1 Store 1685 1785 Dwelling 1 3 Aikoku-ka Hotel 1 1686-90 Seigetsu Aikoku Pool Hall 1687 Restaurant 2 NJAHS’s location today NJAHS’s on 1915 map) 1795 Dwelling Dwelling Dwelling Dwelling 1693 (abandoned 1910) 2 Flats 1692 1695 Nakata Fruits 1694 6 Flats 3 Flats Geary St., Park & Ocean RR Park Geary St., Store & Vegetables (replaced by Howard Garage Howard by (replaced 1698 Cable Car Barn & Powerhouse 1598 1797 1699 Sakai Grocery and Uoki K. Manju-ya, Benkyo-do Grocery, including Hosada Bros. Store Dwelling Store Aoyagi-tei Store Store Restaurant3 3 3 Offices Matsuya 1764 1732 1724-26 1722 1718 1710-14 1706-08 Confectionery 1622-32 1612 1600 1638 1636 1634 scales 1644-1642 BUCHANAN today today There were also a dozen or more Nikkei businesses and hotels on the south side of Geary in 1910 Nikkei or more also a dozen were There Peace Plaza Peace North edge of Geary Expressway today North edge of Geary Expressway Buchanan Mall today GEARY Peace Pagoda Peace SUTTER 1629 1627 1645 1745-49 1719 1715 1707 1703-01 1625 1623 1623.5 1621 1615 1613 1611 1609 1603 1601 1743 1739 1735 1731-29 1725 1723-21 1713-09 2 3 Usui-Shota 1600 2B 40’ 1700 1701 Store 2B entry Grocery Store Store 2B 2B 2B 2 Japanese Stores 1929 2 Storage Restaurant Restaurant 1801 (Sanborn map note) Mutual Supply Co. Bussan 1705 Repair (food importer) Nichibei 943) Tailor Maeki Nakamura 1602 Dwelling 1604 Shed Laundry & Tailor Dwelling Dwelling Dwelling Ohya Tofu Co. Tofu Ohya Misaka Watch Misaka Dwelling 3 2 Flats 2 Flats ex Hori Employ- ( 1711 1700A ment Agency 1 1713 2 1 Shed 4 1606 Shiozaki Pool Hall 0 ) 1 2B Carpenter Yutani Dwelling 02- Murata-doko Barber Murata-doko Yoruzu-Ya (Dry Goods) Yoruzu-Ya 1719 Kariya-doko Dwelling Tomikawa Photo Studio Tomikawa Flats 3 1716 17 1721 ( Barber 1608 Block 685 3 Furuki Grocery Daikoku-ya Restaurant 1723 Yukawa Pool Hall Nichibei Employment Agency Nichibei Employment 1807 1725 2B Printing Boarding House Chinese 1727 1714A 1610 Restaurant 2B Lodgings Church (Japanese) 1612 2B 1733 Dwelling 1811 of Christ Furuki Carpenter B 1714 9 Flats Yamato Shokai (1732-34) (Japanese) 3B (food importer) 1714 (1712-1706) 1735 1B 3 Flats 1614 1 2 C 1737 Japanese Shed Housekeeping Rooms Office 1739 Takagi Pool Hall Takagi Dwelling Flats Store 1813-13A 1714 1 2B 1616 1 18 Dwelling - 1747 Housekeeping Rooms 5 Midori Restaurant 2B Autos 181 1815A Dwelling (1746) Endo Shoten Grocery Dwelling 1716 1 2B Dwelling Undertaking 1618 Shoninkan Nakagawa 2B Dry Goods 1751 7 Takahashi (Japanese) Shed Tailor 2-3 181 3B 1755 (943) 1 3 Flats 1620 Dwelling 50’ peak POST 1757 Housekeeping Rooms 1823 1760 1759 Dwellings Block 685 Church 2 Plymouth moved here moved 1761 3B about 1918) School 2B Congregational 1825 Sunday 1763 1622 The Heart of San Francisco’s Nihonmachi in 1910 The Heart of San Francisco’s 3 Flats Matsumura Shoe Repair Church(Reformed Housekeeping Rooms 80’ 1825A Fujita Dental Office spire 1765 Flats 1825B 2B (943) 3B 1767 Dwelling Shed 1835 3 Flats Block 700 1622 1869 Store Dwelling 1873 3B 1774 2B 1773 Dwelling 1881 3B 4-Flats 1778 (Japanese) 1883 3 Flats 1885 3B Akiyoshi Tin Shop & Store 1674 1780 1676 3B today 4-Flats 1784 1779 1881 3 Flats Laundry 1883 Store East edge of Webster Street Webster 1682-86 1885 3B 1786 1887 3B 4-Flats 1790 2 Flats 1889 3 Flats Dwelling Dwelling Dwelling Dwelling 1688-92 1891 Office 9 Flats 31/2B Store Store 4-Flats 2B 2B 2B 1893 3 Flats 3 2B 2B 1798 2 Flats 2 Flats 1694-98 4 Flats 3 Flats 3 Flats 3 Flats Store 1895 3B 3B 3B 3B 1897 1500 1524 1522 1520 1530 1528 1526 1644 1642 1640 1536 1542 1638 1636 1634 1548 1554 1552 1600 1632 1630 1628 1560 1562 1650 1626 1624 1622 WEBSTER 1541 LAGUNA 1539 1537 1535 1609.5 1523 1543 1609 1607 1605 1603 1611 1619 1619-13 1551 1547 1611.5 3 1 1600 3.5 2B 2B 3 1601 1500 Shop 1602 Miyo’s Drug Soko Beauty Hotel Shop Store D.D.S. Barber Mary’s Taisho Nippon Transfer Murai M. Moriya M. Bros. Co Bros. Misawa 1701 1604 9 Flats Sakamoto Midwifery 1 Store M.
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