{"id":461141,"date":"2026-09-12T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461141\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:38:10","slug":"san-pedro-sushi-restaurant-senfuku-to-close-after-45-years-as-owners-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461141\/","title":{"rendered":"San Pedro sushi restaurant Senfuku to close after 45 years as owners retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789177090_357_origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, September 11, 2026 11:55PM<\/p>\n<p>Senfuku, a beloved Japanese family restaurant in San Pedro, is preparing to close its doors after 45 years of serving the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A beloved Japanese family restaurant in San Pedro is preparing to close its doors after 45 years of serving the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Helen and Yoshi Kikuchi, owners of Senfuku, are retiring and shutting down the longtime restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Senfuku first opened in 1974 before relocating to its current location on Sixth Street in 1982. Since then, the restaurant has become a sushi destination in San Pedro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Among its regular patrons over the years was writer Charles Bukowski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Helen and Yoshi Kikuchi said they will miss their loyal customers most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;There were many, many customers who became friends and we went to their celebrations, and they came to our celebrations,&#8221; Helen said. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to miss them all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Senfuku&#8217;s final dinner service is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 16, from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, September 11, 2026 11:55PM Senfuku, a beloved Japanese family restaurant in San Pedro, is preparing to close&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[181835,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-461141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-181835","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}