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Otomisan Japanese Restaurant
This vernacular commercial building is an excellent example of 1920s streetcar commercial development associated with Japanese Americans in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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Otomisan Japanese Restaurant located 2506½ East First Street is housed in a rare 1920s streetcar commercial building along East First Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Built by Ryohei Nishiyama, the single-story commercial building originally housed a Japanese-operated grocery store, and later included a Japanese-operated florist shop and barber shop. In the 1950s, the grocery store was converted to a food establishment and initially housed a confectionary and later a Japanese restaurant.
The property achieved Historic-Cultural Monument listing in January 2022.