Los Angeles - Day 2 - Little Tokyo - Nisei Week Japanese Festival 2013

Little Tokyo entrance was amazing. It was like that I entered another city. Everything had a Japanese style. I was thinking to myself that how awesome is Los Angeles. They have many cultural places, and events all over the city during all the year. There is always something to do in this city.

I really enjoyed view of Little Tokyo.

I found a beautiful girl, and I asked him to take my picture. It was a way that I invented today to talk to the girls there. I simply ask them to take my picture, then I could talk to them. However, I was too shy to talk to her.

There was a tree there that people stick their written wishes on it. I didn't know that Japan had such a culture.

I couldn't read them though. I just guessed that they wrote their wishes.

Little Tokyo was definitely little. It ended very soon. But I liked it so much. It was the first time that I was in a place like Japan. I like Japan a lot because I think that they have a rich culture.

I went to the other side of the street to find Nisei Week Japanese Festival place.

Sound of drums guided me to a live music play. Several different groups came on the stage and played traditional Japanese sounds. Audiences were very excited.

Then, I entered a building that the festival exhibition was there. Everything inside had a color of Japanese culture.

There were a room with different kinds of Japanese tree. I didn't know that there are so many various kinds of these plants until today.

There was a room that was decorated like the rooms in Japanese movies and cartoons.

When I was in the room, I just felt like Ikkyū-san. It was a boy in a cartoon that we watched every week when I was a child.

In the other room, there were many beautiful sculptures.

They also had may painting in Japanese style. It sounded to me that the paintings had their own style. In face, they were for sale, it was possible to buy it. However, I think that it was expensive. The cheapest one was 20$.

The dolls reminded me the doll that my father brought for us from china when I was a child.

In the other room, they put many Japanese hand-written papers. I like the way that they write in their own language.

They also had a room to teach how to write in Japanese. I wish I could learn it, but I had no time to do that.

I found a Japanese garden there. It was the first time that I was in a Japanese garden. Many plants were new to me. Although it was small, but it had the atmosphere of Japan.

I came back to the building. I was going to different rooms in the building that I found a room full of Japanese handicrafts.

I was in the elevator that I saw Japanese queens of the year in the aisle. I was thinking to myself that it was great if I could took a picture with them. When I was visiting that room, those queens came into the room. I asked someone to take my picture with them. I got a very funny picture with all the queens. I was very lucky that I got that picture.