Gardena, California

Gardena is a city in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, with a population of 61,027 at the 2020 census. Its history runs from Tongva hunting grounds to part of the Rancho San Pedro land grant, and the town proper began in 1887 when real estate developers subdivided a ranch ahead of a new railway line. The city incorporated on September 11, 1930, partly to protect itself from a county tax on a planned park. For decades it held a local monopoly on legal cardrooms, and it has long been home to one of the largest Japanese American communities in California, which helps make the South Bay a centre of Japanese companies on the US mainland.