The California Museum in Sacramento will reopen the exhibit ‘Kokoro: The Story of Sacramento’s Lost Japantown’ from December 20, 2025, to March 29, 2026. The museum is located at 1020 O Street. The exhibition first opened in 2017 and will return with additional family photographs and artifacts. It highlights the history of Sacramento’s Japantown, which covered eight city blocks in the early 1940s.
The exhibit presents the history and experiences of Sacramento’s Nihonmachi. This area once had over 120 businesses, civic groups, and churches. It was affected by forced removal during World War II and later by redevelopment in the 1950s. Today, few traces remain, including California’s first Nisei VFW Post, which opened in 1947…