This was an old lodging house serving male Chinese workers during the era of the Exclusion Acts. Its located on the edge of Little Tokyo in an area being rapidly gentrified. If you're interested in historic places, this gives you a sense of typical SRO housing of a not so distant past. Long hall ways w/lots of rooms running off it punctuated with rooms for showers and rooms for toilets. Great location for connecting to a disappearing part of old downtown, Boyle Heights -- the remnants of the Lower East Side of LA. I loved the experience!