Marukai Market

Murakai market is a Japanese food shop with over five locations in the US. Murakai was founded by the Murkai coorporation in 1965. They import Japanese household items and goods. 

Tokyo Japanese Outlet

The Tokyo Japanese Outlet Store is a store in Little Tokyo with Japanese novelties like Pokemon, Hello Kitty, etc. for cheap prices.

Bunka-do

Bunka-do is a japanese record store in Little Tokyo.

Anzen Hardware

Anzen hardware is a hardware store with not only hardware supplies with gardening and culinary tool too. It is owned by a man name Nori.

SK Uyeda Department Store

A department store located in Little Tokyo with beauty supplies and mattresses.

Rafu Bussan

Rafu Bassan is the largest gift shop in Little Tokyo. They have a really large selection of gift ideas.

Weller Court

Weller Court is a shopping mall in little Tokyo. It has Japanese shops instead of some of the normal American stores. 

Izakya

Izakya is a Japanese drinking establishment. Izakya can be set in a traditional Japanese style with tatami mates and low tables. Izakya's began with sake shops.

Japanese American National Museum

The Japanese American Museum is the largest museum dedicated to the sharing of Japanese American culture. Their goal is to honor the nation's diversity and to promote a healthy understanding of ethnic differences.

MOCA

MOCA was founded in 1979. It is the only museum completely dedicated to contemporary art in LA. It has 5,00 works of art dating from 1940.

Koyasan Buddhist Temple

Koyasan Buddhist Temple is located in Little Tokyo. They offer classes in both Japanese and English. They will celebrate their one hundred year anniversary in 2012.

Little Tokyo Marketplace

The Little Tokyo Marketplace is a marketplace with supplies found in both and american and japanese grocery store. They have and aisle completely with Ramen. There is a premade sushi bar and produce from all over the US and Asia. There is a food court inside and even a backery where they serve mochi!

The Frying Fish

The Frying fish is a seafood restaurant in Little Tokyo. They're sushi received good reviews online.

Jungle-Collector's Shop-Animation and Japanese Collectibles

The Jungle Collector's shop is a branch of a similar store opened in 1995 in Japan. The store sells preowned Japanese audio and visual media and is located in the Little Tokyo Mall in LA.

Replicated Food

Little Tokyo has many places that replicate many traditional Japanese foods, so that people in the US can experience the cultural food.

Kinokuniya Bookstore

A bookstore that sells unique Japanese text.

Mikawaya

Mikawaya was found in 1910 and sold Japanese pastries. In 1994 Mikawaya began to sell ice cream novelties using the Mochi Ice Cream they created.

Fugetsudo

Fugetsudo is a manju artisan shop. Manju is made from mochi bits. It's becoming a popular ice cream topping.

Statue of Kinjiro Ninomiya

Kinjiro Ninomiya was a 19th century Japanese man who was born to a poor family. After his father and mother died when he was a teenager, he worked hard to restore his family's wealth. By his mid twenties he had become a wealthy landlord. He ran his feudal district. Statues of him are popular in Japan. 

Tako Yaki

Tako Yaki is a circular pastry usually filled with octopus, sashimi, or a type of vegetable. Sometimes it can be topped with takoyaki sauce. The ball shaped batter is cooked in a special semi circular pan. The dish was made famous Tomokichi Endo in the early twentieth century.

Imagawayaki

Imagawayaki is a Japanese pastry that is also popular in Taiwan. The batter for the pastry is made in a special pan and is filled with a sweet bean paste, though sometimes they are filled with other things like vanilla custard.

Kyoto Grand Hotel

The Kyoto Grand Hotel is a hotel located in LA that blend Asian and contemporary style. The hotel also has luscious Japanese gardens.

Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple

The Higashi Honganji is part of the almost a hundred year old movement of Buddhism in the US. The church is affiliated with one of the oldest Buddhist churches in Japan. At the church they practice Shin Buddhism which is a form of pure land Buddhism. They have services in both English and Japanese.

Japanese American Cultural Center

The Japanese American Cultural Center was founded in 1971. It is the largest Asian American cultural center in the US. It was founded and is owned by the JACCC.

The Cultural Center houses one of the largest ethnic arts displays in the country.

Go For Break Monument

The Go For Broke Monument was created by Japanese Americans to commemorate three Japanese American military units: the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Military Intelligence Service.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor that resulted in the US entering WWII, Japanese Americans face a lot of segregation. Japanese American service men were sent back to the mainland for training, and civilians were sent to live in camps because the US government feared that spies would pass information to the Japanese government. Despite this, Japanese Americans still fought in the war and supported the war effort.

In 1999 the Go For Broke Monument was erected in Little Tokyo.

Ellison Onizuka Monument

The Ellison Onizuka Monument was created to honor the first Asian American into space, Ellison Onizuka. The monument is located on Onizuka Street in Little Tokyo. It's a model of the space shuttle challenger that was destroyed during a mission in January 1989.

Despite being of Japanese descent, Onizuka was actually born and grew up in Hawaii. He had an air force career and received the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before joining NASA.

He was one of seven crew member killed in the Challenger disaster that resulted from a leaking rocket booster that ended in a fuel tank exploding.

Onizuka is buried in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Yagura

Yugura is a Japanese restaurant located in the Japanese Village Plaza. Out in front it has a bright red tower designed to look like fire look-out tower in old rural Japan.