Well, it's not a very big attraction, but there is a really neat statue of the goddess Kapo in Kapolei.
The city of Kapolei got it's name from the Goddess Kapo, sister of the much more well-known goddess Pele. Kapolei is located around a prominent blunt hillside. From the Ewa plain where the traditional, pre-western capital of Oahu was located, the hillside marked the setting ...
On my way to a Korean restaurant I was going to review, I found Kazoku, a Japanese sushi train restaurant (and I love the sushi train concept). It was a nice surprise to find one right in the heart of Kapolei.
Kazoku in Japanese means "flowery lineage" and refers to a now defunct system of nobility. It's no wonder then that the restaurant is a bit more upscale than most in ...
A land developer contracted by the University of Hawaii has purchased a 298 acre site in Kapolei. 100 acres is reserved for a campus, and the remaining space will be used for commercial and residential projects to create a little college town.
The City and County of Honolulu has been focusing a lot of new development in Kapolei and the surrounding areas, which is currently mostly farmland. The southwestern tip of ...
Even with throngs of tourists, Oahu has plenty of secluded beaches, each with a different character. Near Ewa is Onelua Beach Park. It's a long thin strip of sand punctuated with worn-down lava rock formations. Onelua has a great view of Honolulu and Diamondhead in the distance.
Onelua is not the best for swimming, there are no life guards, but it is suitable for ocean ...
If you are a fan of good sushi, especially cheap, good sushi, you need to visit a Genki Sushi. The chain based in Japan, has several restaurants on the island of Oahu.
The main attraction, other than the reasonable price, is the sushi train. An unfamiliar delight to most Americans, a sushi train is a conveyor belt that snakes through the restaurant carrying plates of various types of sushi on color ...
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