Our Heritage 5k
An AAPI landmark journey through San Francisco
Saturday, May 9th @ 10am
Start: Japantown | End: Portsmouth Square, Chinatown
FREE • ALL AGES WELCOME • NO TIME LIMIT
APA Heritage Foundation
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AAPI Heritage Month Headliner Event
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APA Heritage Foundation 💪 AAPI Heritage Month Headliner Event 💪
A unique family fun run Celebrating AAPI Heritage MOnth!
Help us kick off the 2026 AAPI Heritage Month with a 5k fun run that honors and celebrates the rich Asian and Pacific Islander history in San Francisco.
This is a FREE, family-friendly, fun walk/run through the heart of the city, where we will pass by over 20+ historic AAPI landmarks. Each landmark will have goodies, resources, and information about each location.
We will start the 5k with an opening ceremony performance and end it with an amazing Finisher's Festival, which will include more performances, activities, goodies, and vendors.
There will be cheer stations, photo ops, candy, and entertainment on the route for runners to enjoy!
This year’s 5k will be filmed.
RE:CONNECT is a reply to our history and a conversation with our future. The Our Heritage 5K was born out of our movement's earliest days as a way to activate the community beyond rallies. The name says it: our heritage. Honoring where we came from while building what comes next.
Five years later, hundreds of runners move through San Francisco past the landmarks that tell our story, guided by volunteers standing proudly on every corner of this city, not just in our neighborhoods, but on Market Street, past City Hall, through the busiest parts of the city. Boldly and visibly.
That's why we're partnering with CAAM to film this year's run. This is the AAPI movement in action, and it deserves to be documented. Every runner is part of the story. The route is the set. The finish line is the red carpet.
RE:CONNECT
The Making of a Movement
Our race. Our movement. Our documentary.
Don’t miss out on this collectible ‘Our Heritage 5k’ race medal.
This is an AI rendering of the medal concept. The final design is still being finalized, but it will closely resemble this version. =)
REGISTRATION AND SCHEDULE
IMPORTANT PICKUP INFO
! Participants must register individually and in advance to receive one of the 500 official race bibs and commemorative race shirts. Registration is free; there is a paid option to reserve a t-shirt.
! Registered participants are required to wear race bib during the race to partake in free goodies and giveaways along the course and at the Finishers’ Festival.
! Registered participants are greatly encouraged to pick up their bib and race shirt the day before on Friday, May 8th at Paina Bar & Restaurant, 1865 Post Street, San Francisco from 11 am to 6pm. Pickup will be on a first-come-first-serve basis, so please come to secure your bib and shirt. There is a paid option to reserve a shirt. Pickup may be available morning of race as well, but not guaranteed.
Start @ JapanTOWN
10:00AM
Finish @ Portsmouth Square
12:00PM
Distance:
3.2 miles
About the Course
➤ OPEN Interactive map on Google with information about each stopThe route will be managed by volunteers and is marked with orange ribbons and orange arrows that will guide you to each landmark. Each landmark will have volunteers, photo ops, facts about their rich significance, and even some surprise activities.
Most of the route is flat or downhill except for Chinatown towards the end where there will be a hill to conquer. But! You will be greatly rewarded with surprise giveaways in the alleys that will lead participants toward the finishing line at Portsmouth Square.
Cheering spectators will be ready to celebrate your finish! The first to arrive at Portsmouth Square will have the special honor of breaking the “Asians Are Strong” finishing line tape!
FEATURED LANDMARKS:
(Subject to change)
1. Japantown (Starting point)
Tako Drum Performance 9:40 am and kick-off speech
Start Time 10:00 am
🚻 Public Restroom
Welcome speech
Performances
2. Nichi Bei Kai Cultural Center
3. Japanese American National Library
4. Korean Center
5. Olive St. Mural
Southeast Asian Community Center (SEACC)
6. Little Saigon Entrance
7. Asian Art Museum
🚻 Public Restroom
8. Dragon Gate & Chinatown
9. St. Mary's Square
🚻 Public Restroom
10. WWII Pacific Memorial Hall
11. Willie Woo Playground
🚻 Public Restroom
12. Cameron House
13. Chinese Historical Society of America
14. Gordon J Lau Elementary School
15. Golden Star Tattoo Company
16. Tin How (Tianhou) Temple
17. Waverly Place
19. Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory
20. Wong Kim Ark (local mural)
21. Great Star Theatre
22. International Hotel (new location)
23. Chinese Cultural Center of SF
24. Portsmouth Square (Finishing Line)
End Time 2:00pm
🚻 Public Restroom
Finishers’ Festival
“You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.”
Saturday, May 9th | 10am
Start: Japantown
End: Portsmouth Square, Chinatown
FREE • ALL AGES WELCOME • NO TIME LIMIT
