Rachel Bochner: The "Sorry If It's Selfish" Tour

Before

Long walk · 0.5 mi · 9 min walk; 2 min ride - Little Tokyo

Suye and Tokio Ueyama opened this shop on First Street in 1946, straight out of the incarceration camps, at the address where the first Japanese business in Los Angeles had stood. Irene Tsukada Simonian is the third generation to run it. The stock runs from ceramics and incense to calligraphy brushes.

After

0.4 mi · 9 min walk - Little Tokyo

Set in a narrow brick passage off First Street in Little Tokyo, in a building that was a chop suey house before the war. The list runs long on whiskey and Japanese beer. A patio sits in the alley itself, and food is served until close. It stays open past midnight every night of the week.