Los Angeles
Little Tokyo

This real world escape room is the most unique escape room in downtown LA. It takes you on a clue-solving adventure to find clues, solve puzzles, and follow an immersive storyline. If you want to keep the experience a surprise, don't read this next bit - it contains some spoilers about where you'll go on our Little Tokyo escape room adventure and what you'll see along the way.

In Escapely's downtown LA escape room, you are a top secret spy tasked with exposing a ring of double agents threatening to take down the agency. We suggest starting at Grand Central Market in the heart of Little Tokyo. It's a vibrant upscale food court with an eclectic array of food choices - a great way to fuel up before starting the escape room. To get to your first clue, walk through a quaint alley to Biddy Mason Memorial Park. On the way, keep an eye out for the pasta making often going on behind big glass windows at the past shop you'll pass on your right. Biddy Mason was a freed slave who went on to amass some real estate wealth and became a prominent philanthropist. She owned the plot of land where this park now sits.

The next puzzle will take you to the Sister Cities sign, showing the distance from downtown Los Angeles to each of LA's sister cities. The next clue is the monument to Japanese-American astronaut Ellison Onizuka. He was the first Asian American as well as the first person of Japanese origin to reach space. He successfully reached space aboard the Discovery but sadly died in the Challenger explosion. You will then visit the Home is Little Tokyo mural which pays a colorful homage to Little Tokyo's history. In the center of the mural, you can see an adult and two children lighting candles, which is a tradition to remember the unjust treatment of marginalized groups throughout world history. To end the game, head into the Japanese Village Plaza which is just a few steps from the end of the game to enjoy some fresh takoyaki and other Japanese specialty food and shops!