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The Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church was first established in Sacramento on February 12, 1892 by Reverend Tonochichi Kihara making it the third oldest Japanese Methodist Church in America. The church started out in a home located at 501 I Street…

In 1869, a Prussian arms merchant John Schnell, his family, and 22 Japanese from Aizu Japan in what is today Fukushima settled on a 160 acre farm in Gold Hill in El Dorado County with the intent of establishing a Japanese tea and silk farm. Shortly…

The Sacramento Japanese First Baptist Church was established in November of 1920 by Reverend Kiichi Hijikata along with six others. The church was originally called Seisho Gakuen (Bible Institute) and was located at 1530 Fifth Street. In 1922 the…

The Wakanoura Restaurant was located at 1224 3rd Street in Sacramento's Japantown and would serve such foods as cha shu, ham-yu, chop suey and pakkai. Like many other Japanese businesses it did not survive the Capital Mall Redevelopment Plan. The…

A Neighborhood Lost: Sacramento’s Japantown is a 10-minute-long film that was selected as one of the finalists by Access Sacramento for their A Place Called Sacramento 2016 Film Festival. The documentary tells the history of Sacramento’s former…

Oral History Interview conducted with George Suzuki who grew up in Sacramento's Japantown during the 1930s and whose father worked at the Camellia City and Lemon Hill Nurseries.

From the 1930s until it was closed in 1969 the Lincoln School served as the main Elementary and Junior High School for the surrounding area that included Japantown. The Lincoln school replaced the former Primary School that was located on the corner…

New Eagle Drug Store was located at 1401 4th Street in Japantown. Above the store was Agnes Hospital and next door was the Fuji 5 and 10 Cent Store and next door to that was the Tamagawa-do. The Drug store was owned by Mr. Ishii and the hospital run…

A Japanese Midwives Hospital located in Sacramento's Japantown sometime in the 1920s or 1930s