Waikīkī

Worth seeing in and around Waikīkī

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.

   2.8 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.

   2.7 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.

   2.8 km · 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.

   3.7 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.

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

   1.4 km · zoo in Queen Kapiʻolani Park in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, US · Wikipedia
7. 07
   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.

   1.4 km · aquarium in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States · Wikipedia
8. 08
   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.

   1.3 km · canal in Honolulu, State of Hawaii, United States of America · Wikipedia
9. 09
   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.

   3.1 km · Marianist university in Hawaii, U.S. · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Ala Moana Center

    The Ala Moana Center, often simply called Ala Moana, is a large open-air shopping mall in the Ala Moana neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii. Owned by GGP, a subsidiary of Brookfield Properties, Ala Moana is the eighth largest shopping mall in the United States and the largest open-air shopping center in the world.

    2.2 km · world's largest open-air shopping center, located in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Waikīkī

Airports

Daniel K. Inouye (HNL), 11 km · Kahului (OGG), 151 km · Lihue (LIH), 174 km

Stations

Ala Wai Harbor, 1.5 km

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