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Uwajimaya
Uwajimaya is the largest Asian supermarket in North Americ...
Panama Hotel
The Panama Hotel, located in Seattle’s International...
Sidewalk Prisms
The purple sidewalk prisms in the pavement around Pioneer ...
Elliott Bay Seawall
Seattle’s seawall represents how incredibly transien...
Ballast Island
Ballast Island is an important site in both the history of...
Chief Seattle Fountain/Little Crossing-Over Place
The Chief Seattle Fountain is a monument to the city&rsquo...
“Haiku no Niwa,” Japanese Haiku Garden
Under Executive Order 9066, thousands of people of Japanes...
"Song of the Earth"
Bellevue-based artist Aki Sogabe created “Song of th...
Blakely Rock
Blakely Rock is a diving site southeast of Eagle Harbor an...
King Street Station
Located at the crossroads of four important downtown neigh...
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Uwajimaya
Uwajimaya is the largest Asian supermarket in North America. The store has a long history in Seattle and connects the city to places and producers across the Pacific.
Uwajimaya founder Fujimatsu Moriguchi immigrated to Seattle in 1923, where he ...
Panama Hotel
The Panama Hotel, located in Seattle’s International District and what was once the heart of the city’s Nihonmachi, or Japantown, is historically significant for its roles in the early twentieth century Japanese immigrant community and Japanese Internment in the 1940s.
...Sidewalk Prisms
The purple sidewalk prisms in the pavement around Pioneer Square are an opportunity to observe Seattle’s changeable landscape. Much like theseawall, sidewalk prisms are tangible reminders of the ways that the city’s residents have altered the physical environment ...
Elliott Bay Seawall
Seattle’s seawall represents how incredibly transient and unstable the city’s landscape has been for the last two centuries.
In the late nineteenth century local land speculators and railway companies filled in most of Seattle’s tidelands in order to make ...
Ballast Island
Ballast Island is an important site in both the history of Seattle’s global connections and the city’s Indigenous history. Unfortunately, the site is currently inaccessible due to construction on the new Seattleseawall.
In the nineteenth century, merchant ...
Chief Seattle Fountain/Little Crossing-Over Place
The Chief Seattle Fountain is a monument to the city’s namesake, Duwamish Chief Seeathl (also spelled Si'ahl). It is also a reminder that before this place was Seattle—and long before it was Pioneer Park Place as you see ...
“Haiku no Niwa,” Japanese Haiku Garden
Under Executive Order 9066, thousands of people of Japanese ancestry on the Pacific Coast of the United States were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. The first 227 victims in the country were removed from Bainbridge Island on ...
"Song of the Earth"
Bellevue-based artist Aki Sogabe created “Song of the Earth” in 1998 to memorialize the Japanese American farmers who never returned to Seattle after they were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. The piece is made up of five ...
Blakely Rock
Blakely Rock is a diving site southeast of Eagle Harbor and approximately one mile north of Restoration Point. Visitors to the island can spot Blakely Rock from the ferry. The rock is identifiable from the large black and white navigational ...
King Street Station
Located at the crossroads of four important downtown neighborhoods (Commercial District, International District, Stadium District, and Pioneer Square), King Street Station has served as a hub for transportation and city development for more than 100 years. The station was constructed ...
