What a great weekend to be in Los Angeles. Today starts with a festival in Little Tokyo, and this is just one of three that we’ll be visiting on this beautiful day.

From the festival, it’s a short walk across the street to the main shopping and restaurant area of Little Tokyo for some browsing, grazing, and people-watching.

Then, from there, it’s only about a mile walk to Chinatown, where another festival is happening, this one celebrating the moon.

More time to wander around for some window shopping and selfies.

Chinatown in Los Angeles, while a great place to visit, could benefit from a revitalization program.

Selling attitude in Chinatown and “revitalizing” a storefront.

And back to Little Tokyo for dinner.

For the evening’s entertainment, we are attending the Japanese Harvest Festival under the stars in Little Tokyo.

With dance, theater, music, and great seats for the festivities, we are thrilled to be on hand and likely the only people from Arizona visiting for this. Matter of fact, there are very few white people here at all.

The night culminated with the opening of a cask of saké, and with the closing ceremonies finished, Caroline and I were satisfied. We’d had an amazing day, so we could relax and head to our motel assured that we’d used our time to maximum effect.