Little Tokyo - Plaza

The Plaza in front of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in los Angeles was designed by the American-Japanese sculptor Isamu Noguchi, with a big rock sculpture dedicated to the "Issei", the generation of the Japanese immigrants (their descendants born in America are called "Nisei". Near the Center is a symbolic garden, half Japanese and half American, which is an oasis in the middle of the downtown concrete jungle (entrance through the basement of the Center).