California was home to over 30 thriving Japantowns, but after World War II when Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps, Japantowns began to disappear.
Branding themselves the Ladies of Highland Avenue Research, two long-time Curtis Park residents launched a research project into the areas oldest homes.
In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, the Sacramento Kings take a closer look at the lost neighborhood of Sacramento’s Japantown, which originally began across the street from where Golden 1 Center stands today.Spanning from 3rd to 5th and L to O Streets, the lost Japantown was cultivated by Japanese immigrants in the late 1890s who worked in nearby agricultural fields looking to