In 1932, Japanese immigrant Sanzo Murakami built a two-story building on South Jackson Street in Seattle’s Nihonmachi (Japantown). His Higo 10 Cents Store occupied the first floor, while he resided upstairs with his wife Matsuyo and their four children. During World War II, the Murakamis were forcibly removed from their home and incarcerated in Idaho’s Minidoka concentration camp. A few years before they were imprisoned, Matsuyo and Sanzo’s 22-year-old daughter Chiyo lost her life to tuberculosis in the upper floor of the Jackson building. Over 70 years later, Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience partnered with the Murakami family, Japantown businesses, and local artists to turn a plot of land behind the building into Chiyo’s Garden: a welcoming public space that commemorates her and all children who grow up in the neighborhood. The garden’s Nihonmachi Fence shows the growth, decline, and rebirth of Seattle’s Japanese American population, its slats representing years in the life of the community. Chiyo’s Garden has become a social hub for the area, and a destination on The Wing’s walking tours. Visitors are invited to reflect on both historic Nihonmachi as a whole and on the personal stories—like Chiyo’s—behind it.