Brief History Introduction Trail Anchors Japanese Central Trail Anchor American 1880s Explore the Japanese American Remembrance Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific First Japanese laborers arrive in the Northwest. Trail, an urban hike in 's original American Experience Features art, history and cultural exhibits on pan-Asian Remembrance from Pioneer Square to the Central Pacific American community District. Visit Japantown past and present - 719 S King St | wingluke.org Trail Map 1907-1908 from early pioneers to the World War II era Gentlemen’s Agreement restricts West Trail Anchor Japanese immigration. A loophole to community life today. Immerse yourself allows Japanese “picture brides” and in personal stories of resilience, and explore professionals to come to the US. Klondike Gold Rush National 日系アメリカ人 connections to today. Historical Park 1924 Gold Rush museum located in the historic Cadillac ゆかりの地ガイド Immigration Act of 1924 excludes all Asian immigrants except Filipinos. Get your walking shoes ready Hotel 1929-1930s Use this map to find all 42 sites, past and 319 2nd Ave S | nps.gov/klse Seattle’s Japanese American present, on the Trail. Visit the Trail website to East Trail Anchor population reaches its peak during the Great Depression. find out more about each site. Stop in at the many cultural organizations and businesses to Japanese Cultural & Community 1930 learn even more. Center of Washington Japanese American Citizens Historic landmark featuring the Seattle Japanese League (JACL) forms. Most people walk 1/4 mile in 5 minutes. To Language School. Community gathering place for 1941 walk across the map from west to east would Japanese art, culture and history Japan attacks US military base in Pearl take 20 minutes. The Trail website suggests 1414 S Weller St | jcccw.org Harbor. The FBI begins to arrest Issei 1942 (first generation) leaders in several fitness activities, including several Hill Climb Executive Order 9066 is signed West Coast cities. into law and sets in motion Challenges, safety and accessibility information. the forced removal of Nikkei Trail Website (Japanese legal residents and Japanese American citizens) from Take a guided tour wingluke.org/japanese-american-remembrance-trail the West Coast. The Wing Luke Museum offers neighborhood Features: 1944-1946 walking tours including sites along the Trail. • Site descriptions US concentration camps close. Visit wingluke.org for more. • Stories about people and places along the Trail Some Nikkei families return • Artwork by YouthCAN for select sites to Seattle, but many relocate 1960s • Ways to head out on the Trail including Hill elsewhere. Construction of I-5 freeway cuts Private group tours also are available. A good through Japantown. choice for families, coworkers, community Climb Challenges groups, book clubs and schools to create a • Guided tour information 1968 unique experience, guiding you through the Racial covenants banned in Seattle when the federal government stories of the Japanese American community Lead partners: passes the Fair Housing Act. Explore Seattle! along the Trail. For more info or to reserve your National Park Service Klondike Gold Rush National tour, call 206.623.5124 ext 133 or email tours@ Historical Park 1970s-1988 wingluke.org. National Park Service Rivers, Trails and Conservation After years of community advocacy, Assistance Program President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, also Present Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience known as the Redress Bill. Annual pilgrimages continue to several incarceration sites as Nikkei remember, Additional partners: heal and teach others in hopes that it never happens again. Seattle Nikkei Aging and Disability Services community continues efforts to Densho revitalize Japantown. Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington Keiro Northwest Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust NVC Foundation Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority

With generous support from: Hirabayashi Place includes artwork and historic displays about resistance efforts Jackson Street in Seattle’s Japantown during the forced removal and Neighborhood Matching Fund from the Seattle Department during the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Photo courtesy of World War II. Alabastro Photography. Photos courtesy of Wing Luke Museum. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle. of Neighborhoods Offers Moon Designed by Masao Kinoshita, who was New gate marks entrance to communal S MAIN ST Started in 1935 and Skilled nursing facility 5TH AVE S Meditation classes in bathhouse, the only one preserved intact in Built in 1910 by architect run by George and Tama started by 7 incarcerated in Rohwer concentration 15 Panama Hotel 16 Tokuda Drugs its meditation dojo. camp during WWII and later served in the US. Served many Nikkei before WWII, Sabro Ozasa. Japanese Tokuda. WA State public (second generation) to the US Military Intelligence Service. who came to soak in the baths after American families stored education program on the meet cultural, social, school, dinner and sports. 14 Panama Hotel Sento their personal belongings history and lessons of the language and dietary here during the WWII WWII forced removal and needs of elderly Located at the south entrance, Built around 1906. Main Street School 12 Maneki incarceration. Many of the incarceration is named Nikkei. Includes garden a mural by Roger Shimomura Served many Asian trunks and suitcases are in honor of son Kip who designed by Scott originally developed the depicts the life of Gordon immigrant children, 13 11 NP Hotel on view in the Hotel's Tea Murase with fountain Hirabayashi, who resisted the until December 21, & Coffee House. fund in WA while serving Built in 1914. Visiting by George Tsutakawa. WWII forced removal. 1921 when students as State legislator. S 15TH AVE CHERRY ST Seattle’s first sushi dignitaries and baseball 6 Chiyo's Garden marched up Jackson bar. Over 100 years Pays tribute to Street to newly built teams from Japan usually E SPRUCE ST old, named one of stayed at this hotel. Chiyo Murakami and Bailey Gatzert School. “America’s Classics” evokes the spirit Oldest dojo in Storefront windows 6TH AVE S by the James Beard 10 Jackson Building Warehouse of children growing the US. Established feature a display on the Foundation. up in Japantown. in 1902. Present Jackson Building, a Story of JAMES ST Nihonmachi Fence site built in 1930s. Resilience. shows the rise and JEFFERSON ST E FIR ST 5 Nihonmachi Alley fall of Seattle’s

6TH AVE S 6TH AVE 4 Artwork by Amy Nikaitani about Japanese American Built in 1909, this population. 4 businesses – Kokusai Theater, Maynard Ave. S 14TH AVE S 16TH AVE former Japanese Maneki, Uwajimaya and Sagamiya S AVE MAYNARD E YESLER WAY 9 Green Street E YESLER WAY Started by Jimmy theater hosted 8 7 Confectionary. Founded in 1892. Started Sakamoto, first Japanese international stars 40 Keiro Northwest as a tailor shop, then Momo KOBO at Higo Kaname American newspaper of traditional S JACKSON ST Rehabilitation & grew into retail, import- Once the Jackson Loan Office, Run by the Kuniyuki family with Japanese 42 printed entirely in performances along Care Center export, labor contracting business owners Julius Blumenthal tasting dishes, shochu cocktails and sake. English in the US. with local dance 17 Nippon Kan Seattle Dojo and banking business. groups. and Maurice Zimmer took care of the 41 Koyasan Buddhist Temple S WASHINGTON ST building for the Murakami family Sanzo and Matsuyo Murakami opened Higo 10 Cents Store here S WASHINGTON ST during WWII. Now a boutique blending in 1932. Now an artist gallery and store that includes an exhibit 39 Collins Playfield Asian and European influences. about the family's experience before, during and after WWII. Waterfall Garden Park 18 Japanese American Courier Design honors the Originally took up 2 entire blocks. Run from Japanese American 1913-1971, neighborhood youth from different 21 20 Furuya Company 2ND AVE EXT S 19 Hirabayashi Place Betsuin temple dedicated October experience. ethnic backgrounds came together to play 4, 1941. Site of US Maritime baseball and basketball here. S MAIN ST Created in 1978 by BOREN AVE S S MAIN ST George Tsutakawa, Commission Office during WWII. 14 15 16 Holds annual Bon Odori celebration. 38 Seattle Buddhist Church 12 an artist known for 6 Densho, which preserves WWII 13 his bronze sculptures Samurai movies 2ND AVE S 2ND AVE 11 testimonies of Japanese Americans, 5 and fountains. were popular! 10 located behind the church. 37 WA State Labor Council 22 Cadillac Hotel 9 8 7 4 S JACKSON ST S JACKSON ST S JACKSON ST

Streetcar Hiro's walk 31 Cherry Land Florist 3 Tsutakawa Sculpture 33 Reliance Hospital RAINIER AVE S 23 King Street Station (0.5 mile) 2 Kokusai Theater Opened in 1932 by Tamano and J.M. 34 36 St. Peter's Kobata. Started as a Episcopal Church S KING ST small grocery store S KING ST Nisei Veterans Committee Hall S KING ST Church formed in late 1 Wing Luke Museum and grew into large 19th c. by small group of Spotlights a traditional retail flower shop. Japanese Anglicans. Original As tensions heightened Japanese Chashitsu 24 Nagomi Tea House building completed in 1932. leading up to WWII, Japanese tea house. 32 American porters were 25 North American Post Nichiren Buddhist Church Run by Kamekichi and 35 replaced by Filipino Americans Haruko Tokita family Oldest Japanese- S WELLER ST S WELLER ST S WELLER ST Japanese Cultural & who wore large “Filipino” from 1913 until WWII language newspaper 26 Uwajimaya Community Center of identification buttons. forced their removal and published in the . 5 Built in 1938 as a Washington incarceration. Present dojo for the Kendo Exterior mural with MAYNARD AVE S AVE MAYNARD 30 Bush Garden location of the Klondike Hiro Nishimura, a World Kai, who transferred it scenes from WA State’s Gold Rush National War II military veteran Nippon Kan scrim on display here to the NVC in 1951. labor history, including

4TH AVE S 4TH AVE Started in 1928 Historical Park. and a current resident of S LANE ST shows ads from many Japantown Outdoor memorial wall the Japanese American S LANE ST neighborhood assisted living by Fujimatsu WWII incarceration 29 Nikkei Manor businesses. Includes exhibits and honors veterans and Featuring Northwest home Nikkei Manor. Now in and Sadako S 12TH AVE shown on the building’s guided tours. WWII incarcerees. Nikkei Museum, his 90's, Hiro would take Moriguchi. This south side. a walk in the neighborhood flagship store includes historical art SEATTLE BLVD S Designed by Kichio and artifacts. every day. opened in 2000. 28 Puget Sound Hotel S 8TH AVE Opened in this location on June 9, Open from 1913-

5TH AVE S 5TH AVE S 6TH AVE Allen Arai in 1928. 1957 by father and son Kaichi and 1925, first and only Approximately 300 S DEARBORN ST Ron Seko. Seattle's largest Japanese hospital in Seattle S DEARBORN ST people attended the Used to detain Issei (first restaurant in the 1960s with 40 built primarily to When WA State law forbade elaborate 2-day generation) Japanese tatami rooms on 2 floors. Known for serve Japanese LEGEND community and business Japanese immigrants from inaugural ceremony. purchasing land, a Jewish its karaoke, offered since 1970s. immigrant patients. leaders amid wartime hysteria 27 Opened in 1998, this and racism that followed the attorney bought the property N 00 Trail Anchors assisted living facility bombing of Pearl Harbor in INS for the Nishimura family. includes a therapeutic Once the second largest hotel

December 1941. S 7TH AVE garden. in Seattle with 444 rooms. Japanese American Remembrance Trail Map 00 Present Sites 2018 1. Wing Luke Museum 5. Nihonmachi Alley 9. Momo 14. Panama Hotel Sento 19. Hirabayashi Place 24. Nagomi Tea House 28. Puget Sound Hotel 33. Reliance Hospital 36. St. Peter's Episcopal 39. Collins Playfield 00 Vanished Sites © ...719 S King St ...Jackson St between ...600 S Jackson St ...6th Ave S and S Main St ...442 S Main St ...519 6th Ave S ...718 6th Ave S ...416 ½ 12th Ave S Church ...16th Ave between Main & 2. Kokusai Theater 6th & Maynard Ave 10. Jackson Bldg Warehouse 15. Panama Hotel 20. Furuya Company 25. North American Post 29. Nikkei Manor 34. Nisei Veterans ...1610 S King St Washington St Streetcar Stops ...412 Maynard Ave S 6. Chiyo's Garden ...312 6th Ave S ...605 ½ S Main St ...240 2nd Ave S ...519 6th Ave S ...700 6th Ave S Committee Hall 37. Washington State Labor 40. Keiro Northwest 3. Tsutakawa Sculpture ...Jackson St between 11. NP Hotel 16. Tokuda Drugs 21. Waterfall Garden Park 26. Uwajimaya 30. Bush Garden ...1212 S King St Council Rehabilitation & Care Center ...Maynard Ave S & S 6th & Maynard Ave ...304-310 6th Ave S ...609 S Main St ...219 2nd Ave S ...600 5th Ave S ...614 Maynard Ave S 35. Japanese Cultural & ...321 16th Ave S ...1601 E Yesler Wy Hiro's Walk Route Jackson St 7. Kaname 12. Maneki 17. Nippon Kan 22. Cadillac Hotel 27. Immigration and 31. Cherry Land Florist Community Center of 41. Koyasan Buddhist Temple 38. Seattle Buddhist Church ...612 S Jackson St ...304 6th Ave S ...628 S Washington St ...168 S Jackson St ...905 S Jackson St ...1518 S Washington St Walk Route ADDRESS 4. Maynard Ave Green Street Naturalization Service Bldg Washington ...1427 S Main St ...Maynard Ave S & S 8. KOBO at Higo 13. Main Street School Annex 18. Japanese American Courier 23. King Street Station ...815 Seattle Blvd S 32. Nichiren Buddhist Church ...1414 S Weller St 42. Seattle Dojo Hill Climb Challenges

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