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Kaimukī

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Worth seeing in and around Kaimukī

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.

    2.6 km · 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.

    2.4 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.

    2.6 km · public co-educational research university and flagship University of Hawaiʻi system · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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 km · zoo in Queen Kapiʻolani Park in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, US · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    2.6 km · aquarium in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ala Wai Canal

    The Ala Wai Canal is an artificial waterway in Honolulu, Hawaii which serves as the northern boundary of the tourist district of Waikiki. It was created in 1928 to drain the rice paddies and swamps which would eventually become Waikiki.

    3.2 km · canal in Honolulu, State of Hawaii, United States of America · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Chaminade University of Honolulu

    Chaminade University of Honolulu is a private Marianist university in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. Founded in 1955 by the Society of Mary, Chaminade is in Kaimuki, Honolulu, at the base of St.

    1.4 km · Marianist university in Hawaii, U.S. · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Institute for Astronomy

    The University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy is a research institute for astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a public research university in Honolulu, Hawaii. The institute's main headquarters are located at 2680 Woodlawn Drive in Honolulu, Hawaii.

    3.3 km · astronomical research unit of the University of Hawai'i · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Queen Kapiʻolani Regional Park

    Queen Kapiʻolani Regional Park is the largest and second-oldest public park in Hawaii, located in Honolulu on the east end of Waikiki just beyond Kuhio Beach Park and the Waikiki residential neighborhood. The 300-acre park, named after Queen Kapiʻolani, the queen consort of King David Kalākaua, is home to the Waikiki Shell and the Honolulu Zoo.

    2.4 km · public park in Hawaii · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Waikiki Shell

    The Tom Moffatt Waikiki Shell is a venue for outdoor concerts and other large gatherings in the Waikiki area of Honolulu, Hawaii. Built in 1956, the Tom Moffatt Waikiki Shell seats 2,400 persons and the lawn area has capacity for an additional 6,000 persons.

    2.2 km · outdoor concert venue in Honolulu, Hawaii · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kaimukī

Airports
Daniel K. Inouye (HNL), 14 km · Kahului (OGG), 148 km · Lihue (LIH), 177 km
  • Kahului → Kaimukī
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Lihue, Kauai → Kaimukī
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Kailua-Kona → Kaimukī
    262 km · quickest by air, 4h 29m · $160–230
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kaimukī

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 Kaimukī. 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Courtenay, Comox and the Comox ValleyCA

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

    4,274 km
  2. 02
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    4,302 km
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  4. 04
    Powell River and the upper Sunshine CoastCA

    12 ways of moving, 22 sources

    4,310 km
  5. 05
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,312 km

If you know how people move in Kaimukī – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kaimukī

Kaimukī is 7 km from Honolulu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiicultural and community center for Japanese-Americans in Hawaii2.8 km
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