Old Town Chinatown

I came here to visit the Chinese garden. I wanted to believe that the media reports are exaggerated, but they sadly are not. The neighborhood actually looked nice and interesting, but the entire place is full of homeless and druggies. We were there on a Friday evening and I did not feel safe walking around especially with a camera, or pulling my phone out to take a picture. I wanted to get inside the gardens as quickly as possible, then leave the area as quickly as possible. While inside the gardens I could hear people screaming at each other in the streets. It's very sad what happened to this city. The local government clearly doesn't care about tourism or getting these people clean and off the streets. Truly sad, as the city has so much potential.

I was frustrated, disappointed, and furious with the ways the city did not make any great progress in clearing out all homelessness in this old town. I went around the Chinatown in 30mins and the same scenario happened in every corner. I saw drug addicts, drunk, homeless people camping on the sidewalks. The characteristic smell is the smell of urine. People are staying away from this beautiful historical town, businesses are closed down, and people feel unsafe going here.

Not much to do or see besides homeless people and their garbage. Multiple human poos on the sidewalk and people camped out on sidewalks sleeping. One homeless person even yelled and spit at us as we were walking by minding our own business. Be careful in this area

The gate is cool, the Chinese garden seemed cool but I only saw it from the outside since they charge $ for entry, Rose City Wellness dispensary was cool. The prevailing smell of urine and large concentration of homeless folks was not cool.

Nice monument in Chinatown, but unfortunately has many less fortunate people sleeping around the area and the parking meters have some sticky solution attached to them. The unfortunate reality of a large city.

Traveling, heartbreaking to see how damaged the area is. One armed half naked female in wheelchair shooting up drugs with blood shooting out arm. Guy who helped ran off leaving her to bleed out. Graffiti, tent cities and people trying get money from you. So sad to see what 30 years away has done to this place. Government gave up, time for new elective officials, with back bones.

Unfortunately this area does not feel very safe to hang around. There are a lot of homeless people, which is okay, however the streets are very dirty and I happened to notice a lot.of needles. This is not safe at all for families and kids to walk around. The city should set up a sharps disposal site in this area.

pretty much just the gateway... the garden is not free and nothing much there as well... good try but the overall Chinatown is "where is Chinatown" nothing you can find there... sorry to say, the city and management need to step up and improve... abandoned shop and keep Portland weird...there is a few Asian shop but not Chinatown...