The Sasebo Japanese Garden at the ABQBioPark's Botanic Gardens.

Immigrants from Asia have established strong communities in Albuquerque with rich and varied traditions. The Asian presence is unmistakable near the fairgrounds, where the concentration of Asian restaurants (particularly Vietnamese) and shops has earned it the nickname "Little Saigon." But Asian Americans live and work throughout the city and are an integral part of Albuquerque's cultural mix.
The timing and forces behind Asian immigration to the Albuquerque area were as varied as the nationalities that came here. While a wave of Chinese immigrants was drawn west in the 1800s to search for gold in California and work on the first transcontinental railroad, many of the first Japanese immigrants at that time were escaping dire economic and agricultural conditions in southern Japan. The arrival of the railroad in New Mexico brought these and other immigrants to Albuquerque in larger numbers starting in the late 1800s.
The Vietnamese, on the other hand, barely immigrated to the United States at all until the 1960s. That changed after the fall of South Vietnam in 1975 when a federal resettlement program brought thousands of Vietnamese to the United States, including about 3,000 to New Mexico. The number of immigrants from all over Asia has increased markedly since the 1960s and 1970s, including those from Korea and the Philippines. Filipinos are among the fastest growing ethnic group in New Mexico. (The Philippines has an interesting historical parallel to New Mexico: both were colonized and ruled by the Spanish, and the Philippines became an American territory at roughly the same time New Mexico gained statehood.)