If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area and always wanted to visit the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, this is the weekend to do it.

The Museum will host a special open house this Saturday from 1 -3 p.m. Admission is free in honor of the 125th anniversary of San Jose’s Japantown, one of only three left in the United States.

San Jose is often the forgotten J-Town, overshadowed by Nihomachi in San Francisco and Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, but San Jose”s Japantown holds a special significance to many Japanese Americans.



The open house will feature first-hand accounts of Japantown and Japanese American history, including stories about the WWII incarceration and the fight for redress, the experience of Japanese American veterans, farm life in Santa Clara Valley, and stories about old Japantown