Kokoro: The Story of Sacramento’s Lost Japantown | Exhibit on View at the California Museum

“Kokoro: The Story of Sacramento’s Lost Japantown,” returns to the California Museum from December 20, 2025 – March 29, 2026.

Featuring rare family photographs drawn from the personal collections of community members, “Kokoro: The Story of Sacramento’s Lost Japantown” documents the memories at the core of a once-thriving downtown community devastated first by forced removal during WWII and again by redevelopment in the 1950s.

“Kokoro: The Story of Sacramento’s Lost Japantown,” is an exhibition that first appeared at the California Museum in 2017 and remains one of our most beloved and impactful. Returning visitors can once again walk through the history and heart of this vanished Sacramento neighborhood, while those experiencing it for the first time will discover a vital chapter of our city’s past—now enriched with additional images and artifacts from family collections.

Located at 1020 O Street in the March Fong Eu Secretary of State complex, the Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. General admission is $8–$10.

Learn more at CaliforniaMuseum.org/Japantown

Plan a visit at CaliforniaMuseum.org/Admission