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Take
a Downtown L.A. Public
Art Walking Tour online! |
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Little
Tokyo/Arts District
Gold Line Station
Location: 200
N. Alameda, L.A.
Schedule:
Every 15 minutes during daytime
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.
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The Japanese
American National Museum is directly across the street
from the Gold Line station. You can't miss
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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.
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And a Buddhist
Temple is directly across the plaza from the Museum. |
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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. |
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