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 14–Redevelopment to Redress

Japantown survives “urban renewal” and rises to confront the injustice of the Japanese American internment
Location: Webster Street Parking Lot Entrance – Webster Street between Sutter and Post Streets.



Redevelopment to Redress