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Attractions + Things To Do in Kailua #1 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Kailua Beach Oahu Island HI ~1.60 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Kailua Beach #2 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Lanikai Beach Oahu Island HI ~2.05 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Lanikai Beach #3 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Hoomaluhia Botanical Gardens Oahu Island HI ~4.11 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Hoomaluhia Botanical Gardens #4 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Waimanalo Beach Oahu Island HI ~5.33 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Waimanalo Beach #5 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Valley of the Temples Heeia HI ~5.72 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Valley of the Temples #6 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Lyon Arboretum Oahu Island HI ~6.26 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Lyon Arboretum #7 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Makapuu Beach Park Oahu Island HI ~8.48 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Makapuu Beach Park #8 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Contemporary Museum Oahu Island HI ~8.61 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Contemporary Museum Looking for a respite from the sand, sea and palm trees? The Contemporary Museum on Oahu is a Hidden Place where you can happily spend an hour or a day. Located on Honolulu’s scenic Makiki Heights, The Contemporary Museum combines exhibitions of contemporary art with terraced gardens and spectacular views. The museum’s satellite gallery, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center in downtown Honolulu, features rotating exhibitions of the work of Hawaii artists. The Contemporary Museum (TCM) is the only museum in the state of Hawaii devoted exclusively to contemporary art in a beautifully preserved structure that maintains a subtle blending of Asian and island features. The collections present contemporary art from the 1940s in rotating exhibits. Artists represented include Josef Albers, Jennifer Bartlett, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Masami Teraoka, and Andy Warhol. There are permanent, temporary and traveling exhibitions, one-man and group shows, gallery talks by artists and curators, performances, and daily docent tours. Exhibitions offer interaction with art and artists in a unique island environment. The Makiki Heights location also includes a a garden café that presents several changing exhibitions each year‚ an eclectic museum shop, and a library. The gardens at TCM's Makiki Heights are a destination in themselves. Completed between 1928 and 1941 by Reverend K.H. Inagaki, a local minister with a love for landscape architecture, the gardens were designed to provide a place to retreat, meditate and experience the harmony of nature. The gardens include wide expanses of lawn, reflecting pools, a sun-drenched tropical terrace garden, views of Diamond Head, walking paths, and places to sit. The garden is open to the public during museum hours and is a natural setting for viewing art works as well as a quiet place for contemplation and renewal. The Contemporary Museum also has a site in the corporate headquarters of First Hawaiian Bank in downtown Honolulu. The venue provides a convenient downtown location to view art by resident artists, former residents of Hawaii, or artists who have created a body of work in the Islands. Flanked by a dramatic art-glass wall consisting of 185 prisms, the galleries are located in the main banking hall and on the second floor of First Hawaiian Center. The Contemporary Museum 2411 Makiki Heights Drive Honolulu, HI 96822 Museum/Shop Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 4 p.m. Sunday noon – 4 p.m. Café Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11:30 am – 2:30 p.m. Sunday noon – 2:30 p.m. Closed Mondays & major holidays: New Year’s Day, Easter Sunday, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day & Christmas Day Admission: Adults $5; Seniors & Students w/ valid ID $3 Free to children 12 & under Free to the public on the third Thursday of each month Free admission to The Contemporary Museum Café & The Museum Shop Public transportation: take the #15 to Makiki Heights Drive. Local: (808) 526-1322, Toll free: (866) 991-2835, or fax: (808) 536-5973. #9 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu HI ~8.96 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to University of Hawaii at Manoa #10 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific Oahu Island HI ~9.18 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific #11 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Kualoa Beach Park Oahu Island HI ~9.29 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Kualoa Beach Park #12 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Bishop Museum Oahu Island HI ~9.50 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Bishop Museum The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawai?i State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawai'i and is home to the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural and scientific artifacts. Besides the comprehensive exhibits of Hawaiiana, the Bishop Museum has an extensive entomological collection of over 13.5 million specimens, the third largest collection in the United States. The museum is accessible on public transit: TheBus Routes A, B, 1, 2, 7, 10. #13 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Sandy Beach Oahu Island HI ~9.61 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Sandy Beach #14 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Foster Botanical Gardens Oahu Island HI ~9.62 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Foster Botanical Gardens #15 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Eternity Beach Oahu Island HI ~9.64 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Eternity Beach The Cove, the famous beach from the movie "From Here To Eternity". This is what you would have seen if you were Lancaster & Kerr for that famous "kiss scene". In fact their tumbling in the surf & sand was in the portion of sand in the photo (right Hand Corner). This was home for me. When I went to UH, I would do my book reading here during the week. At the time I didn't realize how famous this beach truly was. #16 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Hanauma Beach Oahu Island HI ~9.74 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Hanauma Beach #17 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Honolulu Academy of Arts Oahu Island HI ~9.76 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Honolulu Academy of Arts #18 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Chinatown Cultural Plaza Center 100 N Beretania St # 304 Honolulu HI - 808-521-4934 ~9.86 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Chinatown Cultural Plaza Center The arrival of the Chinese in Honolulu can be traced to two ships, the Felice and Iphigenia, which set sail from southern China in 1788, and arrived in Hawaii December 6, 1788, and departed March 15, 1789. In the three months these ships were in Hawaii, it is assumed that all crewmen came ashore at one time or another. It is this period, 1789, which Hawaii Chinese historians commemorate as the official arrival of the first Chinese in Hawaii.In the 1800s, Chinatown became a community of family stores where the Chinese sold their wares. First Contract Laborers It wasn’t until 1852 that the Chinese became the first contract laborers to arrive in the islands. With the growth of the sugar industry, the need for plantation laborers became imperative, and China was selected as the best source of immediate cheap labor due to proximity and the interest of the Chinese in coming to Hawaii to work. Captain John Cass of the British ship Thetis brought 293 Chinese men under contract for five years at $3.00 per month to work in the plantations. Working conditions on the plantations would undoubtedly be considered harsh by today’s standards, but for many were better than what they had known in their home villages in China. Between 1852 and 1876, 3,908 Chinese were imported as contract laborers, compared with only 148 Japanese and 223 South Sea Islanders. Around 1882, the Chinese in Hawaii formed nearly 49% of the total plantation working force, and for a time outnumbered Caucasians in the islands. By 1884, the Chinese population in Honolulu reached 5,000, and the number of Chinese doing plantation work declined. The Chinese were very enterprising, and preferred to become self-employed. As a group they became very important in business in Hawaii, and 75% of them were concentrated in the 25 acres of downtown called Chinatown where they built their clubhouses, herb shops, restaurants, temples and retail stores. In 1896, there were 153 Chinese stores in Honolulu, of which 72 were in Chinatown. Chinatown Fires In 1886, calamity struck Chinatown when a fire raged out of control and destroyed the homes of 7,000 Chinese and 350 Native Hawaiians and most of Chinatown. The fire lasted three days and destroyed over eight blocks of Chinatown. The Legislative Assembly enacted laws to regulate the re-building of Chinatown in accordance with fire precautions, but many new buildings were put up in violation of government rules. This contributed to the even larger conflagration of 1900 which came about as a result of deliberate fires set by the Board of Health in an effort to wipe out the bubonic plague which was spreading through Chinatown. The Chinese Store – A Slice of Old Chinatown Life The Chinese store was an important social institution to the immigrants. The storekeepers loaned money, acted as a bank and post office, and wrote and read letters for the illiterate immigrants. The Chinese store also offered a place to stay and a meal, usually for people who came from the same village back home. The stores operated this way even into the 1930s. In less than 10 years after the arrival of the first large group of Chinese laborers, 60% of the wholesale and retail establishments of the islands were operated by Chinese. By 1880, they held 24% of the wholesale, 62% of the retail and 85% of the restaurant licenses issued. #19 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Kahala Oahu Island HI ~9.95 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Kahala #20 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve Oahu Island HI ~9.96 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve #21 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Hawaii Theater Oahu Island HI ~9.97 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Hawaii Theater #22 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Hawaii State Art Museum Oahu Island HI ~9.99 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Hawaii State Art Museum #23 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Honolulu Convention Center Honolulu HI ~9.99 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Honolulu Convention Center The Honolulu Convention Center is located in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii. The Convention Center offers a variety of banquet halls and meeting rooms perfect for any occasion. #24 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Hawaii State Capitol Oahu Island HI ~9.99 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Hawaii State Capitol #25 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Iolani Palace Oahu Island HI ~10.07 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Iolani Palace #26 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Neal S. Blaisdell Center Oahu Island HI ~10.12 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Neal S. Blaisdell Center #27 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Diamond Head Honolulu HI ~10.18 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Diamond Head Diamond Head is the name of a volcanic tuff cone on the Hawaiian island of O?ahu and known to Hawaiians as Le?ahi, most likely from lae 'browridge, promontory' plus ?ahi 'tuna' because the shape of the ridgeline resembles the shape of a tuna's dorsal fin.[1] Its English name was given by British sailors in the 19th century, who mistook calcite crystals embedded in the rock for diamonds. #28 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Hawaii Opera Theater Oahu Island HI ~10.22 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Hawaii Opera Theater #29 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Abhasa Waikiki Spa 2259 Kalakaua Ave # 1A Honolulu HI - 808-922-8200 ~10.23 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Abhasa Waikiki Spa Abhasa is noted for being the only spa on Oahu that offers luxurious spa treatments in a serene tropical garden setting, while being located in the heart of Waikiki; inside the world famous Royal Hawaiian Hotel. #30 of 30 Things To Do in Kailua Waikiki Beach Honolulu HI ~10.33 miles from Kailua city center Hotels Close to Waikiki Beach

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