Honouliuli National Historic Site to host first-ever limited guided tours

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – For the first time, the public will be able to visit Honouliuli National Historic Site in Kunia through limited, guided tours beginning next month.

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The tours will start on July 18 and will be done in partnership with Hawaii’s Plantation Village.

This year marks 80 years since the site closed as an internment camp in 1946, a year after World War II ended.

The Honouliuli site served as the largest and longest-used incarceration site where U.S. residents and citizens of Japanese and European ancestry were unjustly detained. About 4,000 prisoners of war from Okinawa, Korea, Japan, Italy, Taiwan, and the Philippines were also held at the camp, park officials said.

The National Park Service (NPS) said the tour is outdoors and there are no facilities (visitor center, shade structures, etc.) at the park. Visitors must be able to walk down and back up a half-mile unpaved hiking trail to enter and exit the park.

NPS said all tour dates are held on Saturdays, and each tour accommodates 22 visitors.

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Reservations are done on a first-come, first-served basis and are already filled, but you can join the waitlist in case spots open up.

To register:

NPS said a notification will also be sent to those requested to be added to the waitlist.

If a spot does open up, park staff will call the number provided. However, if there is no response within 24 hours, NPS will move on to the next person on the list.

Click here for additional information from NPS to reserve a spot and to prepare for the hike.

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