Besides those aging hippies on Haight-Ashbury what other staple of san fransisco is older then all its US counterparts?

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Japantown. San Francisco's Japantown, Nihonjin machi or Nihonmachi, is the oldest Japanese community in the continental United States. (Nihonjin translates to Japanese people, Nihon translates to Japan and machi to town.) Only three Japantowns remain in California with the other two located in Los Angeles and San Jose. The year 2006 marks San Francisco's Japantown 100th anniversary in its current location in the Western Addition. Japantown is located in the area bordered by O'Farrell on the South, Pine on the North, Fillmore on the West and Octavia on the East. The following is a brief history of San Francisco's Japantown beginning with 1906. Sources: Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, Japantown Task Force, Inc. and National Japanese American Historical Society. (Please see the other timelines for Pre-1906 and Community Institutions history.)