乘著蒲公英的降落傘

20090917 Little Tokyo 小東京

The admission of Japanese American National Museum is free every third Thursday, so I visited the museum and little tokyo.

Japanese American National Museum 日美博物館
369 East First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Tel: 213-625-0414
www. janm.org
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday: 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Free admission: every Thursday: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
                         every Third Thursday: 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The museum does not provide any parking space, so you need to pay for parking.
I parked across the museum and it cost me $6.5 whole day.
Parking Information

The museum opened in 1992. It is devoted to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans, includes the Issei generation (the first generation came to the U.S.) and the community after Pearl Harbor Raid (珍珠港事變).

There were two other exhibits. One is Kokeshi.

KoKeshi
Iconic shape -- a limbless cylindrical (圓柱) body made of turned wood with a round head.

Glorious Excess (Dies): Paintings by Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda

It is not allowed to take pictures in the museum.

After visiting the museum ~

There are many stores and restaurants in the plaza.

Downtown LA.

DAIKOKUYA 大黑家
http://www.daikoku-ten.com/
People say it is the best Raumen restaurant in California.

Daikoku Raumen is noodles, boiled egg, seasoned bamboo shoots, bean sprouts (豆芽菜), and green onions in pork soup.

雖然是滷蛋，但蛋黃不是全熟的，會流出一點點蛋液