Frances Hashimoto Plaza

Frances Hashimoto Plaza is a square in Los Angeles, Southern California, California. Frances Hashimoto Plaza is situated nearby to the theater building Aratani Theater, as well as near Japanese American Cultural And Community Center.

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Type: Pedestrian zone
Description: plaza in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
Also known as: “Frances K Hashimoto Plaza” and “Frances K. Hashimoto Plaza”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Japanese American Cultural And Community Center and Little Tokyo/Arts District station.

Japanese American Cultural And Community Center

Community center

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Little Tokyo/Arts District station

Railway station

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Little Tokyo/Arts District station 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 Downtown Los Angeles. Little Tokyo/Arts District station is situated 860 feet east of Frances Hashimoto Plaza.

Los Angeles City Hall

Town hall

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Los Angeles City Hall, completed in 1928, is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles, California, and houses the mayor's office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City Council. Los Angeles City Hall is situated 2,100 feet north of Frances Hashimoto Plaza.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Little Tokyo and Toy District.

Little Tokyo

Quarter

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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.

Toy District

Neighborhood

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

Skid Row

Quarter

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Skid Row is the unofficial name for a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles officially known as Central City East. Skid Row 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.

Frances Hashimoto Plaza

Category: square
Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

34.0482° or 34° 2′ 54″ north

Longitude

-118.24147° or 118° 14′ 29″ west

Named after

Frances Hashimoto

Open location code

85632QX5+7C

OpenStreetMap ID

way 894010735

OpenStreetMap feature

highway=pedestrian

Wikidata ID

Q136141711

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In Other Languages

“Frances Hashimoto Plaza” goes by many names.

“Frances Hashimoto Plaza”
“Frances K Hashimoto Plaza”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Aratani Theater and James Irvine Japanese Garden.

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