Yamashiro is one of those rare places that could only exist in LA: an exquisite hilltop palace commissioned by two German brothers, built by Japanese craftsmen in then-rural Hollywood, transformed from a private home to a tourist attraction to a military school, and narrowly avoiding a postwar hotel conversion to become the famous restaurant it still is today.
Et Tu, Yamashiro? (Updated 7/18)
Yamashiro is one of those rare places that could only exist in LA: an exquisite hilltop palace commissioned by two German brothers, built by Japanese craftsmen in then-rural Hollywood, transformed from a private home to a tourist attraction to a military school, and narrowly avoiding a postwar hotel conversion to become the famous restaurant it still is today.