Little Tokyo, Los Angeles

Little Tokyo Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
The Far East Café (Chop Suey), a landmark 1896 Beaux-Arts building
Location	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Coordinates	34°3′2″N 118°14′22″W / 34.05056°N 118.23944°W / 34.05056; -118.23944
Built	1942
Architect	Edgar Cline, Et al.
NRHP reference No.	86001479[1][2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	August 22, 1986
Designated NHLD	June 12, 1995[3]

Little Tokyo (Japanese: リトル・トーキョー), 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.^[4] It is the largest and most populous of only three official Japantowns in the United States, all of which are in California (the other two are Japantown, San Francisco and Japantown, San Jose). Founded around the beginning of the 20th century, the area, sometimes called Lil' Tokyo, J-Town, Shō-Tōkyō (小東京), is the cultural center for Japanese Americans in Southern California. It was declared a National Historic Landmark District in 1995.^[3]