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Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii

The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii is a cultural center and history museum in Moiliili, Hawaii that focuses on the Japanese-American experience in Hawaii, especially internment.

Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii is a cultural center and history museum in Moiliili, Hawaii that focuses on the Japanese-American experience in Hawaii, especially internment.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii

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.

  1. 01
    University 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.

    800 m · college and university system in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Diamond Head

    Diamond Head is a volcanic tuff cone on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. It is known to Hawaiians as Lēʻahi, which is most likely derived from lae plus ʻahi because the shape of the ridgeline resembles the shape of a tuna's dorsal fin.

    4 km · volcanic tuff cone and state monument on the southeast edge of Waikīkī, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    University 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.

    800 m · public co-educational research university and flagship University of Hawaiʻi system · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Honolulu 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.

    2.8 km · art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Diocese 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.

    1.7 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hawaii 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.

    3.9 km · state capitol building of the U.S. state of Hawaii · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hawaii 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.

    3.8 km · Lower house of the Hawaii State Legislature · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hawaii 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.

    3.8 km · upper house of the Hawaii State Legislature · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Honolulu 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.

    2.6 km · zoo in Queen Kapiʻolani Park in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, US · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Waikiki Aquarium

    The Waikīkī Aquarium is an aquarium in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. It was founded in 1904 and has been an institution of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa since 1919.

    3.1 km · aquarium in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii

Airports
Daniel K. Inouye (HNL), 11 km · Kahului (OGG), 151 km · Lihue (LIH), 174 km
  • Kahului → Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii
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  • Lihue, Kauai → Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii
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  • Kailua-Kona → Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii
    264 km · quickest by air, 4h 21m · $150–220
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii

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 Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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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Around it

Next door to Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii

Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii is 4 km from Honolulu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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