Cobra Kai dojo and Oriental Express restaurant

Miyagi and Daniel outside of the Cobra Kai dojo on Lankershim Boulevard.

The exterior of what was the Cobra Kai dojo, located at 5223 Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood. The building is now a workout gym called Body Theory.

Today, the main difference in the dojo space is that the room by the front door, which was Sensei Kreese's office, is no longer there. Kove has the original cardboard cutout of Kreese, which stood by the office.Kreese was based on a couple of karate instructors writer Robert Mark Kamen knew. "My first karate teacher was very much like John Kreese. He was a Marine ... tough as nails." The second teacher Kamen almost worked with would tell his students to break people’s noses. "He thought that in combat only one person should be left standing and the other person should be hurt," Kamen says of this instructor.

Lucille LaRusso, played by Randee Heller, and Daniel at the Orient Express on Wilshire Boulevard.

This space at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Cloverdale Avenue was used as the Orient Express restaurant where Daniel talks to his mother about Ali.

"There’s an interesting juxtaposition," location manager Davis says. "[His mom's] restaurant was supposed to have a view of [the dojo]." In reality there was a restaurant across the street from the dojo in North Hollywood, but the restaurant didn’t have a view of the dojo. Production ended up shooting in a restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard and re-creating the exterior of the dojo on the next corner.

The exterior of what was the Orient Express restaurant in the film.