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Honolulu

Bishop Museum

The state museum of Hawaiian and Pacific culture and natural history, in a Victorian stone hall.

Why go

The Hawaiian Hall is the single best hour you can spend understanding where you are, and the feather cloaks are not on display anywhere else.

The catch

It is in Kalihi, not near anything else you are likely to be doing, so it wants to be the anchor of a day rather than a stop on one.

How long
2-4 hours
With children
Yes
Effort
Easy
Cost
Paid
Parking
Easy

A wet dayBefore you go anywhere else on the island

Before you go

  • Busiest in the middle of the day

Getting there

Driving times on real roads, from the same data the trip planner routes on — not straight-line distance.

From Waikīkī13 min6.1 miles
From HNL airport27 min11 miles
From Downtown Honolulu7 min2.8 miles
From Ala Moana9 min4.1 miles

Add traffic. These are free-flowing times, and the H1 through town at eight in the morning is not free-flowing.

More on Bishop Museum: Official site · Wikipedia · OpenStreetMap

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What else is close

Nearest by road, which is not the same as nearest on a map — and not the same as sharing a region either.

  • Chinatown4 min awayThe oldest Chinatown in the United States, still a working market district rather than a themed one.
  • Foster Botanical Garden4 min awayThe oldest garden on the island, in the middle of downtown, full of trees nothing else here has.
  • Lili‘uokalani Botanical Garden4 min awayA small garden of native Hawaiian plants on land the Queen left to the city.
  • Honolulu Museum of Art5 min awayA museum built around a series of open courtyards, with a serious Asian and Pacific collection.
  • Capitol Modern6 min awayThe state art museum, in a 1920s building beside the capitol, free to walk into.
  • Hawaiian Mission Houses6 min awayThe oldest standing Western houses in Hawaii, with the print shop that produced the first Hawaiian-language type.