Palolo
Pālolo is the name of a valley, stream, and residential neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii, the United States.
Pālolo is the name of a valley, stream, and residential neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii, the United States. The area lies approximately four miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu, less than a mile from Diamond Head. Like many of Hawaii's neighborhoods, Pālolo consists of an entire valley. The mauka (mountain-side) of the valley is agricultural in nature. The makai (ocean-side) of the valley ends approximately at Waiʻalae Avenue and is densely settled, mostly with single-family homes.
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Worth seeing in and around Palolo
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.
2.1 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.
2.1 km · public co-educational research university and flagship University of Hawaiʻi system · Wikipedia - 03Diocese 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.
3.4 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 04Honolulu 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.
3.6 km · zoo in Queen Kapiʻolani Park in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, US · Wikipedia - 05Chaminade 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.
1.1 km · Marianist university in Hawaii, U.S. · Wikipedia - 06Ala 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.
3.7 km · canal in Honolulu, State of Hawaii, United States of America · Wikipedia - 07Institute 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.
2 km · astronomical research unit of the University of Hawai'i · Wikipedia - 08Queen 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.
3.9 km · public park in Hawaii · Wikipedia - 09Waikiki 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.
3.7 km · outdoor concert venue in Honolulu, Hawaii · Wikipedia - 10John Young Museum of Art
The John Young Museum of Art is a teaching museum on the campus of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu, Hawaii. The 2,738-square-foot museum consists of two exhibition galleries and a state-of-the-art object study center housing works of Asian art, Native Hawaiian art, and Pacific art.
2.3 km · art museum of University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA · Wikipedia
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Getting to Palolo
- Airports
- Daniel K. Inouye (HNL), 14 km · Kahului (OGG), 148 km · Lihue (LIH), 176 km
- Kahului → PaloloTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Lihue, Kauai → PaloloTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Kailua-Kona → Palolo263 km · quickest by air, 4h 33m · $160–240
- 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 Palolo
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 Palolo. 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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Next door to Palolo
Palolo is 6 km from Honolulu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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