Issei Women's Legacy

The History Walk is a 10 city block self-guided tour that includes 17 permanent interpretive signs highlighting points of historical and cultural significance of the Japanese American community.

Click the links below to view the Walk.

		San Francisco Japantown Sensu

1		What Happened Here
2		Injustice & Honor
3		Uoki Sakai Market
4		Commerce & Community
5		Beginnings of Japantown in the Western Addition
6		Benkyodo
7		Educating the Nisei
8		Heart & Soul
9		The Spirit of Nihonmachi
10A		In the Name of National Security
10B		Kodomo No Tame Ni (For the Sake of the Children)
11		Issei Women’s Legacy
12		A New Ballgame
13		Internment Camps and Return to Nihonmachi
14		Redevelopment to Redress
15		San Francisco Japantown Sensu (fan)
16		What You Leave Behind

Sign 11–Issei Women's Legacy

The dynamic immigrant Japanese women who helped establish and maintain the Japanese American community
Location: Nihonmachi Little Friends – on Sutter Street between Webster and Buchanan Streets.