Meet Up in Little Tokyo Friday January 31, 2025

 Mike’s brother Tony and his wife Linda are in town for a couple of days. They are staying at the Miyako hotel in Little Tokyo visiting their son Trace who is a business owner in Little Tokyo.

Took the metro Train line A to Little Tokyo from LongBeach

Breakfast at the Miyako

 

 

 We had a fun morning showing them around my old childhood stomping grounds (my church, Fugetsudo a historic confectionery, the museum Go For Broke, the Far East Cafe and the spot that once was a Japanese book store at the entrance of Village plaza that I worked at wrapping Xmas purchases. The book store was owned by the uncle of one of my friends. They were very precise on how they wrapped gifts. I used too much paper. It was my first job! I only lasted a day! I was 11 years old. I probably still use too much paper when I wrap gifts! We visited a few spots in downtown “The Last Book store” 

 

 

and “The Bradbury Bldg”. 

 

 

There’s so much more of downtown that we want to show them . These are some things we saw as we walked around DTLA.

 

We returned to Trace's store "L.A. Wargames"and met up with Trace and Wakae.

We had a nice leisure lunch and had fun catching up.

 

Soon Linda, Tony and Wakae   were off to see "Wakae’s” work on a current Japanese film project currently at the Museum of Motion Pictures” on Wilshire blvd. we headed home. 

 

 

 

 

 

 So happy we could spend some time with family. A quick ride home on the metro line A train to Long Beach.