Japantown | Nihonmachi
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Japantown / Nihonmachi
The heart of Japantown is Japan Center, a five-acre complex of hotels, shops, theaters, sushi bars and restaurants at Post and Buchanan Streets. It is crowned by a five-tiered pagoda, a symbol of eternal peace. Locals call this sector "J-Town." More than 12,000 residents of Japanese descent call it home. There is much to learn from this small slice of Japanese life.
* The shop-lined Nihonmachi Mall was designed to imitate a traditional Japanese village.
* Food and flowers are often placed on the fine wood altar of The Konko Kyo Temple on Bush Street.
* The Webster Bridge midway in the Japan Center evokes the Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
Visitors wishing to take a little piece of Japantown home can purchase Japanese vegetable seeds for planting, silk-embroidered kimonos, books on Japanese arts and crafts, silk calligraphy scrolls, tea ceremony utensils and many other traditional items. Each April, Japantown celebrates its Cherry Blossom Festival. Taiko drumming, martial arts, doll-making and calligraphy demonstrations lead to a colorful parade.
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