{"id":2952,"date":"2010-04-09T22:18:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2010\/04\/09\/our-usa-trip-day-13-i-chinatown-little-tokyo\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T22:18:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:18:59","slug":"our-usa-trip-day-13-i-chinatown-little-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2010\/04\/09\/our-usa-trip-day-13-i-chinatown-little-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Our USA Trip Day 13 (I) &#8211; Chinatown &#038; Little Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 23 Dec 2009 Wednesday<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>09:40 AM The Westin Bonaventure Hotel &amp; Suites<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0751.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0753.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s our &#8220;Tour around LA Day&#8221; today. We went down to the hotel reception to ask for directions to the nearest Metro Station to Chinatown but were told to take the Dash bus instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/M1.jpg      \" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Westin Bonaventure Hotel &amp; Suites<br \/>\nB \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Dash B Stop<br \/>\n<em>Total distance 0.7 km<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0754.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0756.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0759.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0761.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0762.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0766.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>10:00 AM DASH B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0767.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hopped onto the Dash bus which would bring us to Chinatown. It cost us 25 cents each for the ride!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/M2.jpg      \" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0768.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On the Dash B bus. Pull the yellow strip along the windows to stop the bus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>10:17 AM Chinatown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0769.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/M3.jpg      \" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Alpine Street<br \/>\nB \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Metro Gold Line Chinatown Station<br \/>\n<em>Total  distance 0.65 km<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0770.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stroll along the street in Chinatown, hoping to get some Chinese breakfast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0771.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0772.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0773.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0774.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0776.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We gave up&#8230; Nothing look appealing to us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>10:35 AM Metro Gold Line Chinatown Station<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0777.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0778.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Purchasing our tickets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0779.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All day pass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0782.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0785.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lots of yellow school buses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0786.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0787.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/M4.jpg      \" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2 stops from Chinatown to Little Tokyo \/ Arts District.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0791.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0792.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>10:50 AM Little Tokyo \/ Arts District Station<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0793.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0794.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/M5.jpg      \" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Little Tokyo \/ Arts District Station<br \/>\nB \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Japanese Village Plaza<br \/>\n<em>Total  distance 0.14 km<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0796.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0799.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0803.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Japanese Village Plaza<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>11:05 AM Wakasaya<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0806.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Made up our mind to have Japanese food. Waiting outside the restaurant for it to open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0807.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">First customer to enter the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0811.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Create our own Don.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0812.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0814.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0816.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0822.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Negitoro, Salmon and Ikura Don<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>11:50 AM Back to Little\u00c2\u00a0 Tokyo \/ Art District Station<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0827.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0828.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0829.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Crossing the train tracks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0830.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200912USA\/13\/01\/IMG_0831.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Let&#8217;s go to our next destination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2010\/01\/travel\/\">View my     entire TRAVEL list<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 23 Dec 2009 Wednesday 09:40 AM The Westin Bonaventure Hotel &amp; Suites It&#8217;s our &#8220;Tour around LA Day&#8221; today.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}