November 4, 2007
ESTABLISHED in the wake of the Great Quake a century ago, San Francisco’s Japantown, or Nihonmachi, is the largest of three Japantowns in the United States. The neighborhood still bears the marks of its twin calamities: wartime internment and 1960s redevelopment. But now, with more interest in all things Japanese and still-unbridled investor enthusiasm for San Francisco real estate, Japantown is undergoing a renovation that promises to raise the area’s profile considerably.
