Travel Reference
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Parking
Hourly parking is available at several municipal parking lots and garages around down-
town. On-street metered parking is hard to find on weekdays, easier on weekends; bring
quarters.
Major shopping centers usually have free parking for customers. The Aloha Tower
Marketplace offers paid parking: on weekdays after 4pm and all day on weekends and
holidays, a $5 flat-rate applies; otherwise, it's $1.50 per hour for the first three hours,
then $3 for each additional 30 minutes.
TAXI
You'll probably have to call for a taxi:
PEARL HARBOR
The WWII-era rallying cry 'Remember Pearl Harbor!' that once mobilized an entire na-
tion resonates dramatically on Oʻahu. It was here that the surprise Japanese attack on
December 7, 1941 hurtled the US into war in the Pacific. Every year around 1.6 million
tourists visit Pearl Harbor's unique collection of war memorials and museums, all
clustered around a bay west of Honolulu where oysters were once farmed.
Today Pearl Harbor is home to an active and mind-bogglingly enormous US naval
base. Anyone looking for a little soul-soothing peace and quiet, especially after a solemn
visit to the USS
Arizona
Memorial, can head up into the misty Koʻolau Mountains above
the harbor, where an ancient Hawaiian temple and forested hiking trails await.
PEARL HARBOR: A SURPRISE ATTACK
December 7, 1941 - 'a date which will live in infamy,' President Franklin D Roosevelt
later said - began at 7:55am with a wave of over 350 Japanese planes swooping
over the Koʻolau Range headed toward the unsuspecting US Pacific Fleet in Pearl
Harbor.
The battleship USSArizonatook a direct hit and sank in less than nine minutes,
trapping its crew beneath the surface. The average age of the 1177 enlisted men
who died on the ship was just 19 years. It wasn't until 15 minutes after the bombing
