Honolulu
Judiciary History Center
A small free museum inside Aliiolani Hale, the courthouse behind the Kamehameha statue.
Why go
It covers the overthrow and the legal machinery around it plainly, and it is free and thirty seconds from Iolani Palace.
The catch
Weekdays only, it is inside a working courthouse with security at the door, and it is genuinely small.
- How long
- 45 min - 1 hour
- With children
- Not really
- Effort
- Easy
- Cost
- Free
- Parking
- Difficult
Before you go
- Closed Sunday and Saturday
- Rarely crowded
Getting there
Driving times on real roads, from the same data the trip planner routes on — not straight-line distance.
| From Waikīkī | 11 min | 3.8 miles |
|---|---|---|
| From HNL airport | 31 min | 13.2 miles |
| From Downtown Honolulu | 2 min | 0.4 miles |
| From Ala Moana | 7 min | 2.1 miles |
Add traffic. These are free-flowing times, and the H1 through town at eight in the morning is not free-flowing.
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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.
- Kawaiahao Church1 min awayThe coral-block church at the centre of downtown, built from reef quarried by hand.
- Hawaiian Mission Houses2 min awayThe oldest standing Western houses in Hawaii, with the print shop that produced the first Hawaiian-language type.
- Iolani Palace2 min awayThe only royal palace in the United States, in downtown Honolulu.
- Kaka‘ako2 min awayA warehouse district between downtown and Ala Moana, now covered in large-scale murals.
- Capitol Modern3 min awayThe state art museum, in a 1920s building beside the capitol, free to walk into.
- Chinatown3 min awayThe oldest Chinatown in the United States, still a working market district rather than a themed one.