Friday, May 20, 2011

Little Tokyo Marketplace

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This is a market place that sells foods of different kinds; occasionally candy as well. People wonder to this location to buy local foods in order to fill their hungry stomachs.

"This place was larger then I thought"

Museum of Contemporary Art: MOCA

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This is a museum filled with art pieces sense 1979. This is the only Los Angelus devoted exclusively to contemporary art.

"I love art!"

SK Uyeda Department Store

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This is a store that sells random trinkets that catches peoples eyes; causing them to buy their product.

"I wonder where this was located."

Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple

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The Higashi Honganji is a temple for the Buddhist religion. Buddhism has evolved for more then 2,500 years to meet the spiritual needs of the people.

"Wish we could of seen it"

Japanese American Community Cultural Center

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This is the Cultural center where you have the ability to learn more about the Japanese cultural. There are gardens and other exciting exhibits to learn more about Japan.

"We saw the out sides of it, but not the inside. I'm sure it was cool"

Go for Broke Monument

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This is a monument about Perl Harbor attack that changed the lives for Japanese Americans.

"We weren't able to see it"

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Koyasan Buddhist Temple



This is a place of relaxation and meditation for the people of the Buddha. We all respect you; our group staid silent while we where there.

"What a tricky Buddhist temple to find! Thank goodness that I was just spacing out, or we would of never found it"

The Frying Fish


A fancy restraint that has a rotating bar within it. Unfortunetly we didn't get the sign of the place but we got a group picture infront of it and the bar.

"I look bad, but the food looked good"

Japanese American National Museum




In each picture you can see the sign in the back ground, plus I heard the museum is really good, but we didn't get to go in it. Oh well!
"lol, our funny pictures."

Weller Court




We didn't see the inside of the building but we did see the friendship not that was located right next to it!

"Friendship! <3"

Rafu Bussan




It was a cute store that sold random stuff

"Like I said before, I like stores. lol my friends"

Anzen Hardware








A small, tight, store that held anything from glass vases to gardening plants. We thanked them nicely for allowing us to take the pictures within their store.

"A big pot! I had to take a picture of it"

Bunka-do







A small, covered, building that held cute glass trinkets and small bags. Anything random was there.

"Aw! Those glass paper cranes where cute!"

Tokyo Japanese Outlet





Another cute store! Yay! Held candy, toys, and other random stuff.

"I like stores"

Marukai Market



A small, or at lest that's what it looked like, market place that holds foods and candy of different kinds.

"At the time I really had to go potty, hence we didn't go inside..."

Jungle



And closed! This is a shop that is known for selling collector items, or anything anime like.

"Por que!? I wanted to go in there! :c"

Five photo's of replicated foods on display







Just as the title says, these are five different pictures of replicated foods on display. These pictures where taken from the window of the Curry House! Yum! <3

"I want some of the real stuff now..."

Kinokuniya bookstore


A pretty decent sized book store that didn't allow pictures inside of it.

"Gha! I love books! <3"

Five items from Mikawaya







Another random cute little store with random items sold within it.

"If I have more time I'll need to buy some stuff"

Five items from Fugetsudo







A cute store that had random trinkets and goodies around

"Cute. Yum! Pocky!"