Honouliuli National Historic Site • Hawai'i

A group of people in outdoor wear crowded around the park's entrance sign

A historic photo of a valley filled with tents and wooden buildings

A historic photo of a soldier walking out of a barrack

A park ranger stands and smiles behind a booth for the park

Honouliuli National Historic Site is the location of what was once the largest and longest-run prisoner of war camp and incarceration site in the Hawaiian Islands during WWII. At its peak, it held 4,000 prisoners of war of Japanese, Korean, Okinawan, Italian, and Filipino descent as well as 400 American civilians, primarily of Japanese descent with some Europeans. Our mission is to share the many stories of injustice born of this complex time period in American history.

The first group to go on a guided public tour to Honouliuli NHS with the National Park Service
NPS Photo/Brandon Akiona

The entrance to the park
NPS Photo/Brandon Akiona

A historic overview of Honouliuli Internment Camp with prisoner of war tents, civilian and military barracks, and the historic aqueduct present.
Hawaii's Plantation Village/R.H. Lodge

A soldier walking out of a barrack in Compound V at Honouliuli Internment Camp
Hawaii's Plantation Village/R.H. Lodge

Park staff working a table event at Okinawan Festival, 2025
NPS photo

A series of blue barracks and tents cut off by white barbed wire with text about the 80th.

The park is honoring the 80th anniversary of Honouliuli Internment Camp closing through a series of events through September.

Two prisoners of war standing in a garden

Get a broad scope of the history behind the story of Hawaii's largest and longest-run incarceration site.

National Park Service staff talking to a group of visitors on an aqueduct.

Public tour RSVPs are open. Information and details on how to sign up can be found here.

A park ranger in lei is crouching on a stage, smiling while talking to a woman standing

Read about the desired conditions and vision for the future of the site that the park will use to guide planning in the coming years.

A variety of logos displayed in a collage

Learn about the partners that make the 80th Commemoration possible.

Last updated: August 18, 2026

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National Park Service
Honouliuli National Historic Site
1 Arizona Memorial Place
Honolulu, HI 96818

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