Little Tokyo’s Kouraku is known as America’s oldest Japanese ramen noodle restaurant still in operation. Founded in 1976, Kouraku was taken over by the late Hiroshi Yamauchi in 1986, who brought popular post-World War II Japanese comfort food to the community. Though new owner Mamoru Tokuda is now at the restaurant’s helm, Kouraku’s culinary traditions remain, and this longstanding restaurant still feels like “home.”