diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.0.rst
index 3b049f3059666..b215d8b7e695c 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.0.rst
@@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ Removal of prior version deprecations/changes
 - Removed deprecated global option ``use_inf_as_null`` in favor of ``use_inf_as_na`` (:issue:`17126`)
 - Removed deprecated module ``pandas.core.index`` (:issue:`30193`)
 - Removed deprecated alias ``pandas.core.tools.datetimes.to_time``, import the function directly from ``pandas.core.tools.times`` instead (:issue:`34145`)
+- Removed deprecated alias ``pandas.io.json.json_normalize``, import the function directly from ``pandas.json_normalize`` instead (:issue:`27615`)
 - Removed deprecated :meth:`Categorical.to_dense`, use ``np.asarray(cat)`` instead (:issue:`32639`)
 - Removed deprecated :meth:`Categorical.take_nd` (:issue:`27745`)
 - Removed deprecated :meth:`Categorical.mode`, use ``Series(cat).mode()`` instead (:issue:`45033`)
diff --git a/pandas/__init__.py b/pandas/__init__.py
index 048d20f0de72f..1a549c09d22f7 100644
--- a/pandas/__init__.py
+++ b/pandas/__init__.py
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@
     read_spss,
 )
 
-from pandas.io.json import _json_normalize as json_normalize
+from pandas.io.json._normalize import json_normalize
 
 from pandas.util._tester import test
 
diff --git a/pandas/io/json/__init__.py b/pandas/io/json/__init__.py
index 1de1abcdb9920..52c65dd6f0c4e 100644
--- a/pandas/io/json/__init__.py
+++ b/pandas/io/json/__init__.py
@@ -4,10 +4,6 @@
     read_json,
     to_json,
 )
-from pandas.io.json._normalize import (
-    _json_normalize,
-    json_normalize,
-)
 from pandas.io.json._table_schema import build_table_schema
 
 __all__ = [
@@ -15,7 +11,5 @@
     "loads",
     "read_json",
     "to_json",
-    "_json_normalize",
-    "json_normalize",
     "build_table_schema",
 ]
diff --git a/pandas/io/json/_normalize.py b/pandas/io/json/_normalize.py
index 2e320c6cb9b8f..577d677e7b3a0 100644
--- a/pandas/io/json/_normalize.py
+++ b/pandas/io/json/_normalize.py
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
     IgnoreRaise,
     Scalar,
 )
-from pandas.util._decorators import deprecate
 
 import pandas as pd
 from pandas import DataFrame
@@ -245,7 +244,7 @@ def _simple_json_normalize(
     return normalised_json_object
 
 
-def _json_normalize(
+def json_normalize(
     data: dict | list[dict],
     record_path: str | list | None = None,
     meta: str | list[str | list[str]] | None = None,
@@ -535,8 +534,3 @@ def _recursive_extract(data, path, seen_meta, level: int = 0) -> None:
             )
         result[k] = np.array(v, dtype=object).repeat(lengths)
     return result
-
-
-json_normalize = deprecate(
-    "pandas.io.json.json_normalize", _json_normalize, "1.0.0", "pandas.json_normalize"
-)
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/json/test_normalize.py b/pandas/tests/io/json/test_normalize.py
index 86059c24b1e48..bb72e36f8d6cc 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/json/test_normalize.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/json/test_normalize.py
@@ -872,13 +872,6 @@ def test_with_large_max_level(self):
         output = nested_to_record(input_data, max_level=max_level)
         assert output == expected
 
-    def test_deprecated_import(self):
-        with tm.assert_produces_warning(FutureWarning):
-            from pandas.io.json import json_normalize  # pylint: disable=reimported
-
-            recs = [{"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3}, {"a": 4, "b": 5, "c": 6}]
-            json_normalize(recs)
-
     def test_series_non_zero_index(self):
         # GH 19020
         data = {
diff --git a/scripts/validate_unwanted_patterns.py b/scripts/validate_unwanted_patterns.py
index 5bc2a915a1c0e..036ddd40ae137 100755
--- a/scripts/validate_unwanted_patterns.py
+++ b/scripts/validate_unwanted_patterns.py
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
     "_registry",
     "_get_offset",  # TODO: remove after get_offset deprecation enforced
     "_test_parse_iso8601",
-    "_json_normalize",  # TODO: remove after deprecation is enforced
     "_testing",
     "_test_decorators",
     "__version__",  # check np.__version__ in compat.numpy.function