Garapan

Worth seeing in and around Garapan

8 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.

1. 01
   American Memorial Park

   American Memorial Park on the island of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, United States, was created as a memorial honoring the sacrifices made during the Marianas Campaign of World War II. Recreational facilities, a World War II museum and flag monument keep alive the memory of over 4,000 United States military personnel and local islanders who died in June 1944. The park is owned by the Government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the national memorial is managed in cooperation with the National Park Service as an affiliated area.

   1.2 km · park in Saipan · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Sugar King Park

   Sugar King Park is a municipal park located in Garapan, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands across from the NMI Museum of History and Culture. The park was named in honor of the "Sugar King" Haruji Matsue, director of the South Seas Development Company.

   500 m · park in Garapan, United States of America · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Saipan Katori Shrine

   The Saipan Katori Shrine is a Shintō shrine in Sugar King Park, Garapan, Saipan. The main festival of the shrine is held annually in October.

   600 m · Shintō shrine in Sugar King Park, Garapan, Saipan · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Kristo Rai Church

   The Kristo Rai Church is a Roman Catholic church in the street Kopa Di Oru of the town of Garapan in the Northern Marianas Islands, a dependent territory of the United States in the Pacific Ocean, part of Oceania. The parish is under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chalan Kanoa.

   400 m · church in Northern Mariana Islands, USA · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Japanese Lighthouse

   The Japanese Lighthouse is an old lighthouse situated atop Navy Hill in Garapan, Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

   1.6 km · lighthouse in Garapan, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Catholic Belltower

   The Campaneyan Kriso Rai, also known as the Catholic Belltower, is a historic church tower in Garapan, the largest village on Saipan island in the Northern Mariana Islands. Built in 1932, it is the only element of the island's most prominent Roman Catholic church to survive bombardment in World War II. The tower, a concrete structure 3 meters square and 10 meters tall, was built by Spanish Jesuits brought in by the Japanese South Seas Mandate administration, and stood next to an 1860 wood-frame church.

   600 m · historic church tower in Garapan, Northern Mariana Islands · Wikipedia
7. 07
   NMI Museum of History and Culture

   The NMI Museum of History and Culture, also known as the NMI Museum, is a museum in Garapan, Saipan hosting exhibitions about the Chamorro and Carolinian people and also displays artifacts, documents, textiles, and photographs from the Spanish, German, Japanese, and American periods in the Northern Mariana Islands. The museum has repatriated a significant number of historic objects from the Marianas that were held nationally and internationally in private collections and by foreign museums, companies, and militaries.

   500 m · History museum in Garapan, Saipan · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Adam Smith University

   Adam Smith University is a private distance learning university founded in 1991 by Donald Grunewald, who is still its president. Grunewald was president of Mercy College between 1972 and 1984.

   300 m · university · Wikipedia

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Getting to Garapan

Airports

Rota (ROP), 126 km · Antonio B. Won Pat (GUM), 216 km

Stations

Tanapag Harbor, 3.1 km

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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 Garapan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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