Metrolink Adventure: A Cultural Odyssey through LA's Newest Stations and Landmarks

we are at Fullerton station and today we're taking the metro link to Los Angeles we're going to LA to show you the three new Metro stations and we'll visit some museums along the [Music] way we made it to La Union Station and now we're transferring to the A- line on stop to China town we have arrived in [Music] Chinatown this is Bruce Lee's [Music] Memorial we found a Chinese Bakery as we were walking back towards ala Street at this pastry place we got three Sesame balls three egg rolls and and one steamed [Applause] bun now we're at the Italian American Museum of Los [Music] Angeles there used to be a Little Italy here in LA but everyone moved out this is the building we're in right now Tommy lazord was the manager of the Dodgers and he led the team to many World Series this museum has Iron Man's Battle Dam helmet from endgame this section is on Lou Prima a popular musician of Italian descent I actually know a song by Lou Prima called Sing Sing Sing last year at my school the show choir did that [Music] song This violin belonged to Louis Prima he began learning at the age of seven and that is the Italian American Museum of La which is free to visit and it's our first time here and it was actually way cooler than I thought for the amount of space they actually give tons of information and I didn't even know that La used to have a Little Italy so in an hour we went to China then Italy and now we're in Mexico thank you gra [Music] you we are at Aila Adobe which is the oldest house in Los Angeles [Music] this is the kitchen I never knew this place existed [Music] we found another free museum which is the LA [Music] Firehouse our next stop is the Chinese American [Music] Museum each grain of rice represents eight Chinese people so in the 1860s there's two grains of rice for 16 people so between 1940 and 1960 there's a huge increase oh because Congress repeals the Chinese Exclusion law and now there's this many [Music] grains this is a replica of the sun wing wo herb shop and General [Music] Store this exhibit is the Boba show which is one of my favorite drinks although Boba milk tea was invented in Taiwan most Southeast Asian countries have long used tapioca balls as some form of dessert and that is the Chinese American Museum my favorite part was the b bik c I like how this is another free museum that lets you learn about the history of the area and the culture now we're back at Union Station we're going to take a three stops to Bunker Hill station which is one of the three new [Music] ones the this is Bunker Hill station which is the deepest station in La the station is so deep that the only way to get up is to take the [Music] elevator there are a lot of cultural institutions here such as mocha which is an art museum or Disney Concert Hall but right now we're going to check out the Broad [Music] Museum [Music] this is a video showing different chess matches and to me it's very cool because I like chess and that's the Broad Museum we were here last time so we just quickly went through again but the reason why we came here is to show that it's so close to the train station like that's the museum and that's the station right here we made it to Los Angeles City Hall and we're going to try to go to the 27th floor for the observation deck we're taking the express elevator to the 22nd floor and after that we need to take another elevator to get to the [Music] 27 wow three elevators just to get to the top wo is this all we're coming here for because this is pretty cool is pretty hot that's Walt Disney Concert Hall over there which means I guess we could have just walked here from there I didn't know and then downtown ol uh there's the Hollywood sign oh yeah and griffith observator is there the white building there's a Metro Link train rolling in at Union Station over there and that is the Los Angeles City Hall if we're ever showing people around Los Angeles this is this would be a great place to come because it's free and you get a great view of pretty much everywhere we're at another news station this is Little Tokyo and here's some Japanese related artwork just across the Little Tokyo Arts District station is the Japanese American National Museum first we're going to check out Aki's Market this is a virtual Recreation of Aki's market and this virtual experience is done by his grandson the mat here is the actual size that the market was so stepping into the market it was such a surreal experience because I've never done I've never done a virtual reality experience at a museum before hello the door open on there okay oh wow sorry [Music] watermelon do these open nope you this exhibit is called common ground and it talks about the Japanese interment camps this is Hart mountain in Wyoming where the Japanese were incarcerated and we've actually been there [Music] before oh these are artifacts from all of the intermittent camps this is the model of a concentration camp it looks [Music] like no sad oh it's this one no it's lighter this one yeah just close it [Music] up and that is the Japanese American National Museum my favorite part was a keys Market it was super cool and it was VR also I liked the bias exhibit upstairs and if you want to see AIS Market make sure to do so before January 28th 2024 I'll try our next [Music] stop and that is our metr link Adventures to Los Angeles my favorite thing that we did today was of course Little Tokyo but I also do like the Japanese American well that's part of Little Tokyo yeah but it's a good Museum the Japanese American National Museum that was very cool and if you ever come to Los Angeles you have to check out that whole museum I like all the different cultures we experience today from China to Italy to Mexico to Japan and all of this was super convenient because all we had to do was take the Metro Link to Union Station and once we were there everything was within walking distance of a light rail station see you in the next video bye