The Chinatown–International District of Seattle, Washington is the center of the city's Asian American community. Within the district are the three neighborhoods known as Chinatown, Japantown and Little Saigon, named for the concentration of businesses owned by people of Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese descent, respectively. The geographic area also once included Manilatown.
Historic Chinatown Gate in the Seattle Chinatown Historic District
516 7th Ave S was originally built in 1924 as the Chinese Grand Opera Theater to house a Peking Opera company.
Aerial photograph of the CID in 1969, facing northeast. Prominent east–west streets (running from lower left to upper right) are Jackson (background) and King (foreground). I-5 at top of photograph.
Uwajimaya, 2005
International District/Chinatown station is a light rail station that is part of the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel in Seattle, Washington, United States. The station is located at the tunnel's south end, at 5th Avenue South and South Jackson Street in the Chinatown-International District neighborhood, and is served by the 1 Line of Sound Transit's Link light rail system. The station is located adjacent to Sound Transit headquarters at Union Station, as well as intermodal connections to Amtrak and Sounder commuter rail at King Street Station and the First Hill Streetcar.
Platform level view of International District/Chinatown station in 2010
Postcard depiction of King Street Station and Union Station in the late 1930s, including the future site of International District/Chinatown station
The Union Station office complex and International District/Chinatown station, built atop a shared concrete lid
View of International District/Chinatown station from the plaza level, open to the platforms below