Little Tokyo
Little Tokyo, also known as Little Tokyo Historic District, is an ethnically Japanese American district in downtown Los Angeles and the heart of the largest Japanese-American population in North America.
- Type: Quarter
- Description: neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA
- Also known as: “Little Tokyo (Los Ángeles)”, “Little Tokyo, Los Angeles”, “Літл Токіо”, “リトル・トウキョウ”, “リトルトーキョー”, “リトルトウキョウ”, and “リトル東京”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Little Tokyo/Arts District station and Koyasan Buddhist Temple.
Little Tokyo/Arts District station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Toy District and Skid Row.
Little Tokyo
- Categories: Japantown, historic district, historic site, and locality
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=district
OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Indonesian: “Little Tokyo, Los Angeles”
- Italian: “Little Tokyo”
- Japanese: “リトル・トーキョー”
- Korean: “리틀도쿄”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Little Tokyo”
- Norwegian: “Little Tokyo”
- Persian: “لیتل توکیو”
- Polish: “Little Tokyo”
- Russian: “Литл Токио”
- Spanish: “Little Tokyo”
- Swedish: “Little Tokyo”
- Turkish: “Küçük Tokyo, Los Angeles”
- Ukrainian: “Маленьке Токіо”
- Urdu: “لٹل ٹوکیو، لاس اینجلس”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Pueblo de Los Ángeles and Historic Core.
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