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Little Tokyo

Little Tokyo, also known as Little Tokyo Historic District, is an ethnically Japanese American district in and the heart of the largest Japanese-American population in North America.
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  • Type: Quarter
  • Description: neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Also known as: “Little Tokyo, Los Angeles”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Little Tokyo/Arts District station and Koyasan Buddhist Temple.

Railway station
Photo: OrdinaryScarlett, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an underground light rail station on the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It replaced an at-grade station with the same name that was located on the east side of Alameda Street between 1st Street and Temple Street, on the edge of Little Tokyo and the Arts District in .

Buddhist temple
Photo: Tktru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Koyasan Beikoku Betsuin, also known as , is a Japanese Buddhist temple in the Little Tokyo district of , , United States.

Town hall
Photo: Brion VIBBER, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, completed in 1928, is the center of the government of the city of , , and houses the mayor's office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City Council.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Toy District and Skid Row.

Neighborhood
The is a 12-block area in eastern , bounded by Los Angeles Street on the west, Third and Fifth streets on the north and south and San Pedro Street on the east.

Quarter
Photo: Jorobeq, CC BY 2.5.
is the unofficial name for a neighborhood in officially known as Central City East. contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in , designated by the city council in 2003 to promote the concentration of art galleries along Main and Spring Streets.

Little Tokyo

Latitude
34.04851° or 34° 2′ 55″ north
Longitude
-118.23989° or 118° 14′ 24″ west
Elevation
276 feet (84 metres)
Open location code
85632QX6+C2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150974026
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­district
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
5367262
Wiki­data ID
Q1780798
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Satellite Map

Discover Little Tokyo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Little Tokyo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Little Tokyo, Los Angeles”
  • Catalan: “Little Tokyo”
  • Cebuano: “Little Tokyo Historic District”
  • Chinese: “小东京”
  • Chinese: “小東京”
  • Dutch: “Little Tokyo”
  • Esperanto: “Eta Tokio”
  • French: “Little Tokyo”
  • German: “Little Tokyo Historic District”
  • German: “Little Tokyo”
  • Italian: “Little Tokyo”
  • Japanese: “リトル・トーキョー”
  • Japanese: “リトル・トウキョウ”
  • Japanese: “リトルトーキョー”
  • Japanese: “リトルトウキョウ”
  • Japanese: “リトル東京”
  • Korean: “리틀도쿄”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Little Tokyo”
  • Norwegian: “Little Tokyo”
  • Persian: “لیتل توکیو”
  • Polish: “Little Tokyo”
  • Russian: “Литл Токио”
  • Spanish: “Little Tokyo (Los Ángeles)”
  • Spanish: “Little Tokyo”
  • Swedish: “Little Tokyo”
  • Turkish: “Küçük Tokyo, Los Angeles”
  • Ukrainian: “Літл Токіо”
  • Ukrainian: “Маленьке Токіо”
  • Urdu: “لٹل ٹوکیو، لاس اینجلس”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Little Tokyo”. Photo: Bobak, CC BY-SA 2.5.