Me with the real Kramer

I went on Kramer's Reality Tour yesterday. It was fun, there were a lot of good anecdotes about Larry David, but not many actual sites. For the first hour we sat in a theatre while Kramer talked about his friendship with Larry, and about the events in his life which had been used in an episode of Seinfeld. We watched a few excerpts of Larry talking about the real Kramer. Then there was a 40 minute break for people to get a snack and buy cheap tat from the Kra-Mart (and yes, almost everyone did, to my surprise - including bumper stickers about Vandelay Industries and Assman number plates - also available from the website) and then we set off on the bus. The bus has tv monitors so we watched a couple of short items, which were really worth watching and are pretty exclusive to this tour, like a really funny interview with the real Soup Nazi, who says Seinfeld ruined his life. When we got to Tom's restaurant, Kramer was very accommodating and happy to have his photo taken with everyone.

A lot of the original businesses used have been replaced, so there weren't many sites to actually see. You could just go and see the two main ones by yourself:

Tom's restaurant at West 112th and Broadway
The Original Soup Man at West 55th and 8th Avenue (this location is now closed, so not sure where the Soup Nazi himself hangs out.)

There's some other information about locations here.

The real Kramer is a definite character and if you are a hardcore Seinfeld fan you will enjoy the tour and the footage - but I think most of the people on it fit this demographic (over half were Australians). Just don't go expecting to see a lot of sights - after all, the show was filmed in LA.