Little Tokyo
Nestled betwixt Downtown (proper), the Arts District and, ahem, Skid Row, to form a misfit tetrad of walkable neighborhoods, Little Tokyo is home to your next favorite restaurant coffee shop bar spot. Est. 1886 (i.e. in LA terms, pre-historic), it’s one of few remaining US Japantowns, and the well-documented taciturn cultural pride has protected its authenticity, skewing it less tourist-trap and more Taste of Tokyo.
Little Tokyo Market
Café Dulce
Shojin
DoubleTree by Hilton
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Marugame Monzo
Cafe Demitasse
Jason Markk
Chado Tea Room
Torigoya
Izakaya Honda-Ya
Sushi Gen
Shin Sen Gumi Hakata Ramen
Daikokuya
SoHo Nails & Spa
Jist Cafe
Manna Korean BBQ
Far Bar
Wolf & Crane
XLanes
Max Karaoke Studio
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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
- Address
- 152 North Central Avenue
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This 40,000 square foot, former police car warehouse is a vast exhibition space, allowing for some fantastic shows that are scaled to heights or quantities not often seen at other LA museums. Be sure to check out the calendar before going because MOCA has some of the best programming in the city, which always goes down at its Geffen location. If it’s not the experimental performance series, Step and Repeat, then it’s the critically lauded and massively attended LA Art Book Fair… or something else all together unexpected. Of MOCA’s three locations in LA, the Geffen is by far the funkiest, so come with an open mind and some spending money for the spot-on museum store. Images: Courtesty of Fredrik Nilsen