Food on Display!

In Little Tokyo, there are a TON of places to eat, so people don't always have time to read your menu, so what do you do? Make Plastic food to grab their attention and to showcase what your restaurant is all about! It's no secret that the restaurants in Little Tokyo rely more on their plastic food models than item's description in the menu to bring in customers. Here are just a few examples of what you might see in the windows of these restaurants. 

Here, this restaurant is showing their signature ramen

and Japanese BBQ.

This shows another restaurant's attempt at recreating

their dishes. This shows their curry rice, katsudon,

and oyakodon.

This store tries to show off their bento style lunches and 

also bring customers in with their samples sign.

This restaurant is a ramen house, where their specialty

is delicious ramen! Their most famous dishes are set on 

display.

This restaurant shows off its noodle dishes. It also puts

in items from different cultures in the display, showing

how they are multicultural, making a more peaceful 

environment.

Little Tokyo Koban

The Koban is the first place you should always go to. It has useful information about the area, information on how to locate a lost item, information on safety precautions, and information on how to schedule a tour in historical areas in both Japan and the United States. A Koban actually is translated to: a policebox, but mainly used to find directions. In other words, this is the place where you ask all of your tourist questions when visiting Little Tokyo!

Koyasan Buddhist Temple

As one of the oldest buildings in Japan, this temple was made in 1912. Also, it is home to its own boy scout troop. The temple is open to the public and you may also attend Japanese sermons. 

Imagawayaki

Imagawayaki is a pancake like dessert filled with delicious filling, but the most delicious is with red bean paste. The best place to get Imagawayaki is definitely at the Mitsuru Cafe in Japanese Village Plaza. It is a light, fluffy sweet that is glazed with a thin outer crust. Inside, soft dough surrounds the smooth red bean that'll make your mouth water at first sight!

Japanese Garden - Community Cultural Center

This Japanese garden is located to the east side of the Japanese American Community Cultural Center (JACCC) building. A huge stream runs through nearly all of the garden from a waterfall. Surprisingly, there are no animals, besides slugs scattered along the grass, inside the garden. That includes the traditional Koi fish in traditional Japanese gardens and ponds. It is a basic Japanese garden and is an ideal feature to Little Tokyo, Los Angeles and captures the beauty and serenity of Japan in a compact garden.