Explore a key part of Hawaii’s contemporary past.  History buffs know that sugar cane was king in Hawaii for over 100 years and Hawaii’s Plantation Village offers a snapshot of what life was like during this formative period.

• Hawaii’s Plantation Village is living history museum and ethno-botanical garden that showcases plantation life during a time when sugar production was Hawaii’s leading economic activity.
• Explore the collection of 32 original and authentically replicated plantation buildings, furnished with over 3,000 personal artifacts and set on 50 acres at Waipahu Cultural Garden Park.
• Find out how plantation workers used their favorite trees and plants for food, medicine and household materials.

Learn the roots of Hawaii ’s multi-ethnic population.

• Between 1852 and the end of World War II, nearly 395,000 workers came from different countries (China, Portugal, Japan, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Okinawa, Korea) to work on Hawaii’s many sugar plantations.
• At the time of Hawaii’s statehood in 1959, one in every twelve persons was employed in the sugar industry by more that 30 plantations.
• Hawaii’s Plantation Village’s volunteer docents lead tours on the hour, taking visitors back to when life was centered on the plantation community. See how each immigrant group lived, struggled and sacrificed.  Also learn the unique lifestyle differences between each culture.

Discover plantation era artifacts up close and personal at the Okada Education Center.

• An extensive library of historical photographs, documentary materials and artifacts from the plantation period are also available on site at the Okada Education Center. 
• The quaint gift shop offers homemade handicrafts, local cookbooks, ethnic music and more.

Hawaii’s Plantation Village opened in 1992 and is a non-profit educational organization.  It is located 18 miles / 35 minutes from Waikiki on Oahu’s leeward coast.  For more information about the Village and the significant period in Hawaii ’s history that it represents, visit hawaiiplantationvillage.com.