metro gold line

Art Eats 
along the Metro Gold Line

 

Union Station 
to Pasadena

Union Station 
to East L.A.

Little Tokyo/Arts District

Pico/Aliso
Mariachi Plaza
Soto
Indiana
Maravilla
East L.A. Civic Center
Atlantic

 

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Little Tokyo/Arts District 
Gold Line Station
Location: 200 N. Alameda, L.A.

The Little Tokyo/Arts District Gold Line station, itself,  is utterly boring and not worth a photo. A block away, however, you enter Little Tokyo, a colorful old district of Los Angeles.  

Japanese American national Museum Los Angeles.JPG (35094 bytes) The Japanese American National Museum is directly across the street from the Gold Line station.  You can't miss it.  

 At the rear of the plaza is the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, one of three sites of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.  Because rents have historically been low in this area, many artists have studios and live nearby.  

 

Buddhist Temple Little Tokyo Los Angeles.JPG (39975 bytes) And a Buddhist Temple is directly across the plaza from the Museum.

 

Tower Little Tokyo Plaza Los Angeles.JPG (36342 bytes) You will not be able to miss the tower that marks the entrance to the Little Tokyo Village shopping and dining center.  Sushi, teriyaki, yogurt, cupcakes -- you will find them all in this "village".  

There are also souvenir stores and kimono stores.  One shop, called Tokyo Life is especially quirky and interesting: almost everything on the shelves is labeled in Japanese and the items are all contemporary -- not traditional.  It's fun.

How much does a 
Vegas condo
really cost 
these days?

 

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