Fresno St.

1478

Streetcar Line
C. Malanca Bldg.
Hotel D’Italia

Fresnostreet underpass

Cosmopolitan Hotel

Fire Dept.
GarageFresno
Fire Dept.
Station #3

Europa Hotel40

The Grange Co.
Farm Supplies
Warehouse

Chinatown

PG&E

49
Used Car Sales

531

Warehouse

Feed & Grain
Warehouse

Sleeping Car Shed

Streetcar Line

Japanese American
Businesses of 1940

diningroom
B a s q u e

200 feet

1402

0N

First Mexican Baptist Church(built 1924)

H o t e l

Mariposa St.
Service Station

California Packing Corp.
Warehouse

1601

1548920 Nii Restaurant

California Packing
Corporation Plant #68A
Raisin Processing & Packing

Fuji Laundry 925
923

Yabuno Co. Groceries 921
919

920

Henm
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917
915

1526

Kern St.

Tokiwa-ro
Restaurant eardw )ar edi H losAk (cDick’s Clothing

Nishimura Hotel 1550 Inaba Market(later Asia Hotel)
Komoto’s Dept. Store (1938-1990s)
formerly Kamikawa Bros. (1901-1936)
tailor, bath, bank, grocery hotel
861 Independent Public Market1528857Turkish Baths 855& Massage 851
847
843

840

Azteca Movie Theater(built 1946)

837

Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
Merchandise Warehouse

1501 Kern (Nippon Building #1)
Kashu Mainichi newspaper branch
Tenshodo Drug & Art Goods
Bocho Club

Feed Mill
Liberty Garage

Nippon Building #2 on Kern St.
TB Takemoto Barber
SS Star Shoe Repair Shop
FP Fresno Printing Co.
MB Matsuda Book Shop, F.A.C.,& Nichibei Kogyo Kaisha Branch
OH Opera Hotel entry & Dr. TairahC
ameryPep aLia n

Building & porch
Future (post-WWII) buildingBuilding gone by 2007
14100

Address

NoteSanborn map note (1927)

NoteModern landmarks

hUse of Sanborn maps courtesy of The Sanborn Library, LLC.

Cp re ser ea mnt)

Locations of businesses and residences are from interviews
and field surveys by Ben Pease and Jill Shiraki in April, 2007,
as part of the Preserving California’s Japantowns project(www.californiajapantowns.org). We are especially grateful
to longtime Fresno resident Nori Masuda.

Mono St.

e rTakemoto Grocery

664 Sunshine Laundry

Yosemite Laundry(1918)

yWakayama Kenjin KaiMilk Depot 1918

Blacksmith

645

638

Tom Okawara
Attorney

Merchant’s Warehouse Co.

Yasuhira
Maternity Home630

Map Notes:
This map is a composite of Sanborn Insurance Maps from1918 and 1948, and the Rafu Shimpo and New JapaneseAmerican News directories from 1940.
Businesses and buildings may not be 100% accurate for1940 (the base map is heavily based on 1918). Modern
landmarks are shown in red for reference.

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St 8r y 91
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e dF St.

891(1 )rd 48
Ya 1 9ed s (Fe ng’s l l ile weop Dn d6 0 s toHayboiler

e x

9Way (1Okonogi Sanitarium(built 1920s, demolishedfor creamery expansion)

Rosenberg Bros. & Co. Packing
Raisins & Dried Fruits

reE St.

gh t o f

722

708

Japanese Sanitarium
1918

Hay & Feed Barn (1918)

Electrical
Substation

Emoto Sewing Shop

623

Japanese American News
newspaper agency
Konko-kyo
Fukyo Sho

Map created by Ben Marysville
Pease ©2007 for theJapantown Atlas project (www.japantownatlas.com),funded by the California
Civil Liberties Public Education
Sacramento
Vacaville
Project (CCLPEP).
Sebastopol
WalnutPetaluma

IsletonGrove

Stockton

BerkeleyCENTRAL CALIFORNIA JAPANTOWNSCortez
Livingston

San Jose
WatsonvilleMontereyFresnoSalinas
Fowler

619

610

608

CENTRAL
COAST

Field worker
housing

Hiroshima Kenjin Kai
Sakamoto
Seed & Fertilizer

Guadalupe

1517

1300

1500

1400

Tsukimura Sewing School
411 E St.

562

Eden Maternity
Home

Tamaya Jeweller Co.
394 F St.

CENTRAL
VALLEY
Santa Maria
LompocSanta Barbara
OxnardVentura Ave.

Ventura Ave.

Del Rey
Visalia

Bakersfield

Valley Gin Sha
1501

1417

532 D St.

Hotels and Rooming Houses

isFresno Tailor

1420

Imada Sewing School

Churches

Barrett & Hicks Co.
Warehouse

Inyo St.

anexpanded 1948 building
726

New World Sun
newspaper agency

Wartburg Evangelical
Lutheran Church(1918)

CommunityChurch

Apartments and Flats

Dse d riMono St.

614

Industrial uses

SchoolRyokaneFres
Ch n o S
ees o aeF p
act C oor y .
(19 (19148) 8)1137 Mono

624

Other businesses

Name

Dwelling

hmilk truck parking

de presTenrikyo Fukyo Sho(Fresno Church)

Kada Sewing School

Japanese American businesses

Name

Dyeing & Cleaning(1918)T

Hwy 99

D St.
707

Name811

1918 buildings

Ed ge of99

MAP LEGEND

Roofing Storage1269

Today’s

Zellerbach Paper Co. Warehouse

Fresno Furniture Store

1516

Westside Garage

Streetcar Line

1500

1541

1525

First home of Central Fish(late 1940s-1960)

907
905

Hamazumi 903
901
Pool Hall

1537

1515

1509
1507
1505

1501

1517

Sun Rise Laundry 913
Nankaiya Hotel & 911
Kubo Express 909

Masuda Co.
Grocery 1535
& Tailor 1529

901

Shinboku Kai

1449 1458 Inouye Pool Hall

Nippon Bldg. No. 1

Kogetsu-do Candy Store
914 Nakamoto Restaurant
Victory Cafe
S. Takahashi
Optometrist

Central Fish Market

Bing Kong
AssociationCongregational
CC Gakuen Kyokai* Church Dormitory 817
CCYMWBL, Lumbini Club
Salvation Army 811
Nishihonganji Fresno Betsuin
Byakudo Kai, B.W. A., YMWBA
805[*CC may be Congregational Church?]763

Hobbs-Parsons Co. Wholesale Produce

parking

Lincoln Hotel

Harry Ego Dry Goods
Chinese association
historical marker

934
930 Bow On Bldg.

Danish Creamery
employee parking

Fujimura
Groceries

Railway Express
AgencyKataoka
Jeweller

1526

New Shanghai Hotel

1528

Fresno County
Health Dept.

Baggage Room1016

1547

TakataRestaurant

1001

Laidies
Waiting
Ticket Office &Waiting RoomG St.

1531-35Komatsu Drink Shop 1527

1523

1525
1000

1522

1526

1517

1514
1510

1518

1515
1509
1507

Fukuhara Drink 1521
Shop & Barber 1519

Tsubota Shoe 1007
Repair 1003

833

Inyo St.

1221 Inyo

Nippon Bldg. No. 2

1448
1435
1440
1433
Kawmikawa Fish Co.
1431 1436 Tamaki Carpenter
1434
1429 1432 Kebo Ice Cream Parlor
1427 1430
1428 Urashima-tei Restaurant
1425 1426 Engei Club, N. A. Butoku Kai Branch

Wakasa Express

938

1430 Kern St.

801

803

50

Rose Bottling

37

Congregational Church
Boy Scout Troop 16
CE Society
Nippon Language School
Women’s Club

Judo ArenaSumoArena

Ito Co.
TB SS FP MB OH Tailor
O p e r a H o t e l1424 Kebo Ice Cream Parlor

Softball Field(CongregationalChurch)

1420 Kebo Bros. Electrical Co. & cycling shop

Sangyu Nippon
News Agency
BathO.K. Garage

Buddhist Church
student dormitory

E St.

30

Church Parking Lot

Baseball field andrunning track(Buddhist Church)

FresnoBuddhist
TempleNipponLanguage
School

1st church built here 1902,
burned 1919, rebuilt 1920

Japanese
Garden1416 Kitazaawa Seed Co. branch1408 Jitsumyo Meat Co.
Kinoshita Drink Shop

1340

Nippon Language Schoolstudent dorm (new)

824

1400

Kern St.
tennis courts

944

Fresno Fish Market 919
Yoshimine Cafe 917
M.G. Tailor 915
911
Nippon Hall Lily’s Beauty
Parlor(theater)
907
Home Drugparking

1423
1421
Kebo Insurance 1419
Yamada Barber 1417
Nisei Beauty Salon 1411
1409
Royal Flowers 1407
1405
1403

Marutama
Kamoboko1333 1343 1347

Andes Hotel

1500

Chuka Jiho
920 Newspaper & Printing

Japanese
Methodist Church
Epworth League
Women’s Club

950

925
923
921

922 Murashima Sewing

1318

952

Sekimoto Restaurant 939

935

California Packing
Corporation Plant #68AOffice957
2 12'-6" wide buildings
on mezz Marumaru Tei Rest. 955

Peacock
Building

291331

1501

1447 1448
1441
1439
1437

1433
1431

949

532

Chinese Laundry 1031

Tulare St.

Kamimaruko 947
Cyclery 945

Fujiio Massage
Wakida Barber 929
Tokiwa Bath 927

Matsuno Sushi

1000

Bank of America 951(West Fresno Branch)

Fresno 20-40 Club
Inada Dental Parlor
George Photo Studio
Japanese Association

YokotaTofu Shop1009

Tanaka Restaurant 935

Nippon Hospital
Fresno Sanitarium or
Nihon Byoin (est. 1914)

99

1418-24

Drug

Today’s1429
1426
1427 1426 Nichibei

942

Suda Dental Parlor 941

1015

YoshiokaRestaurant

Old Foks
Home barmural
Western Hotel Ryan Hotel

1423
1421
1419
1417
1415
1413
1411
1409

Mikado Laundry
Yomoto Sewing School
Okayama Kenjin Kai Hotel
Okayama Kenjin Kai

Tashima Service50

Yokota Restaurant

H o t e l1416 Horimoto Shop
1414
1412 Horimoto Shop
1410 Kobata Drink Shop
1408
1402

1228 Tulare

1342
1338

1336

1250

Nii Restaurant &Shibukawa Massage

1403

1347

1201 Tulare at C

1405

Wholesale Produce Market

M i k a d oChinese Society

Takemoto Restaurant 1025
Masuda Drink Shop 1023
Jinkawa Drink
Shop & Pool Hall
Ryan Theater
JACL
Muratani Insurance
J. Sasaki Optometrist
Yatabe Dental Parlor
Aki Co. Groceries

Arie Fish Co.
Kamiyama Photo Studio

GroceryWarehouse

China Alley

2839F St.

E St.

D St.

Fagan Alley

Chinese School& Church

Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot

Autos

1054

Dai Nippon
Buyoku Branch
N.A. Butoku Kai

Feed & Poultry Supplies

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