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.

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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

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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

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
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Marugame Monzo

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