Ala Moana
Ala Moana is a commercial, retail, and residential district of Honolulu, Hawaii.
Ala Moana is a commercial, retail, and residential district of Honolulu, Hawaii. It is located between Waikīkī and Mōʻiliʻili to the east, and Kakaʻako and Honolulu Harbor to the west. King Street, to the north, marks the border with the neighborhood of Makiki.
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Worth seeing in and around Ala Moana
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Hawaiʻi System
The University of Hawaiʻi System is the public higher education system of the state of Hawaii. The system confers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees through three universities, seven community colleges, an employment training center, three university centers, four education centers, and various other research facilities distributed across six islands throughout the state of Hawaii.
2.8 km · college and university system in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi · Wikipedia - 02University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is a public land-grant research university in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi system and houses the main offices of the system.
2.8 km · public co-educational research university and flagship University of Hawaiʻi system · Wikipedia - 03Honolulu Museum of Art
The Honolulu Museum of Art is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke.
1.4 km · art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii · Wikipedia - 04Diocese of Honolulu
The Diocese of Honolulu is a Catholic diocese for the state of Hawaii in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Francisco.
2.6 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 05First Hawaiian Center
First Hawaiian Center is the third-tallest building in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi and the city of Honolulu, the largest city in the state. It is the world corporate headquarters of First Hawaiian Bank, the oldest and largest bank based in Hawaiʻi.
2.6 km · Second tallest building in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi · Wikipedia - 06Hawaii State Capitol
The Hawaii State Capitol is the official statehouse or capitol building of the U.S. state of Hawaii. From its chambers, the executive and legislative branches perform the duties involved in governing the state.
2.3 km · state capitol building of the U.S. state of Hawaii · Wikipedia - 07Hawaii House of Representatives
The Hawaii House of Representatives is the lower house of the Hawaii State Legislature. Pursuant to Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution of Hawaii, amended during the 1978 constitutional convention, the House of Representatives consists of 51 members, each elected in a single member district.
2.2 km · Lower house of the Hawaii State Legislature · Wikipedia - 08Hawaii Senate
The Hawaii State Senate is the upper house of the Hawaii State Legislature. It consists of twenty-five members elected from an equal number of constituent districts across the islands and is led by the President of the Senate, elected from the membership of the body, currently Ron Kouchi.
2.2 km · upper house of the Hawaii State Legislature · Wikipedia - 09Honolulu Zoo
The Honolulu Zoo is a 42-acre zoo in Queen Kapiʻolani Park in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. It is the only zoo in the United States to be established by grants made by a sovereign monarch and is built on part of the 300-acre royal Queen Kapiʻolani Park.
3.5 km · zoo in Queen Kapiʻolani Park in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, US · Wikipedia - 10Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace is the mother church and cathedral of the Diocese of Honolulu.
2.7 km · cathedral in Honolulu, Hawaii · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ala Moana
- Airports
- Daniel K. Inouye (HNL), 9 km · Kahului (OGG), 153 km · Lihue (LIH), 172 km
- Stations
- Aloha Tower, 2.9 km · Honolulu Harbor, 3.1 km · Honolulu molasses spill, 2.9 km
- Kahului → Ala MoanaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Lihue, Kauai → Ala MoanaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Kailua-Kona → Ala Moana266 km · quickest by air, 4h 16m · $150–220
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ala Moana
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ala Moana. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAs of Jan 2023, there is no regular interisland ferry service.
- Get aroundLarger groups may want to tour the city via charter bus; there are several chartering companies available on the island.
- Go nextMost of the island's major attractions can be seen in a day trip, or spread out over several days.
From Wikivoyage: Honolulu, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Ala Moana is 2 km from Honolulu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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