APPAREL & ACCESSORIES Cute Cut O 1 Helen & David Jewelry M 6 Assn of Chinese from Vietnam, Tea at 1024 C 5 SPECIALTY FOODS - TAKE OUT Barrio Vintage EE2 De Lotus Nail & Hair I 2A Hong Jewelry L 7 Cambodia & Laos J 4 Vietnam Café Pho G 3 Aloha Pops Popsicle Factory F 3 CJ Creations I 2B Guss Cecil Hairstyling N 9 Jade N’ Jewelry N 3 Amitabha Buddhist Society N 6 Annie’s Bakery N 3B ATM SERVICES S Chinatown Cultural Plaza Calista H 3 Hair Magic Salon O 1 Jerry’s Jade & Fine Jewelry H 5 Calvary Chapel E 1 Bread House Bakery H 11 A & M Travel L 8 Chung Fa Collections N 6 Hair Institute of D 2 K-H Jewelry K 5 Consuelo Foundation N 5 Char Hung Sut F 5 Post Office National Historic District Boundary ATH Travel K 4 Collection of Beauty F 6 Image Salon B 5 Kim Hai Jewelry L 8 Gee Yung Martial Arts/Lion Dance H 3 Char Siu House N 2 vv Aloha Curtain J 3 N Beretania Do’s Formal C 8 J.A. Hair Salon N 3 Kim Thanh Jewelry M 5 Heavenly City Christian Church F12 Chinatown Express H11 Bus Stop American Savings Bank I 3 v Downtown Enterprises L 12 Kellya Beauty Salon L 3 Kingdom Jade & Watch Repair G 3 P.S. 150 O 4 Family Look Fun Factory L12 1 Arts & Graphics I 2A 11 12 13 1 P Downtown Fashion M 5 Keo’s Hair Styling G 5 Long’s Jewelry & Gift Shop M 5 River of Life Mission N 1 HASR Wine Co. D10 Restroom bP Bank of Hawaii J 1 6 Downtown Rainbow G 3 Lynn & Dee Hairstylists F13 Mikiko Jewelry M 6 Trinity Broadcast Network F 4 Lee’s Bakery J 8 P Black Cat Tatoo DD 4 P 2 2 In4mation E 5 Mat’s Barber Styling G 3 Tommy Jewelry M 4 Madre Chocolate E 5 RESTAURANTS Brown Shoe C 1 La Muse E 5 Nail Designs by Hana F 1 Twins Jewelry K 4 Mai Fruit & Smoothies N 3A Meat Market 1 10 888 Café Vietnamese G 3 C. Robin & Co. K 5 5 O F E 3 EE Rainbow Fashion I 2B New Modern Hair Styling H 7 Nam Fong H 8 S 9 LEI STANDS 99 Coffee Shop L 7 Chinatown Pharmacy G 3 8 3 4 Rainbow Muumuu Factory F6 Ocean Beauty Salon N 6 New Lin Fong N 2 Cindy’s Leis & Flowers M 2 Bien Nho Café Karaoke G 3 Color Station C 9 Produce Market 7 Roberta Oaks D 1 Paris Beauty Salon F 1 Sing Cheong Yuan Bakery H 7 3 4 2 Flower Field 2 N 2 Canton House N 6 Core Group One, Inc. B 2 4 2 Ruby’s Treasures - 2nd Hand N 6 Pons Barber & Hairstyling N 3B T & H Fresh Juice K 4 S S P 6 5 Island Gifts & Flowers F13 Chin’s Szechuan H 6 CV Construction, LLC H 3 5 6 Xin Xin Fashion H 5 Rainbow Hairstyling D 8 Wing Ice Cream & Shave Ice G 5 Fish Market b Jenny’s Leis & Flowers F13 Cuu-Long II Viet L 9 Diamond Head Travel D 1 Ricky’s Barber Shop N 7 Wing Seng Market F10 N Pauahi ASIAN GROCERY & PRODUCE Kathy’s Flowers & Leis H 3 Domo Café M 3 D.N’.D. Pawn N 8 b Riverside Barber Shop N 9 Yat Tung Chow Noodle Factory L 6 10 1 5 Stars Market N 6 Lei of the Island G 1 Downbeat Diner D 7 Excellent Design & Build F 2 Shopping Court 5 1 Ryan Jacobie Salon I 2A Ying Leong Look Funn Factory L 3 P 1 555 Market & Groceries M 7 Lin’s Lei Shop H 5 Duc’s Bistro O 1 Finance Factors M 4 2 1 Sea Wave Hair Salon O 1 Zumai Bento F 6 9 9 An Dong Market K 6 Lina B Leis & Flowers O 6 Eastern Food Center M 5 First Hawaiian Bank C 6 t P 2 2 Sums Beauty Center J 4 Food Court e S 2 BH Market & Produce I 2B Lita’s Leis & Flowers F 1 Epic Restaurant DD 1 Fisher Printing Co. J 6 TAILORS & ALTERATIONS e 3A r N T.W. Salon O 1 t H10 F11 G 3 Fritz Johnson Architects B 5 Angela’s Alterations N 9 4 G 8 Bo Wah Trading Co. Maunakea Leis & Flowers Ethiopian Love Restaurant S 8 D DD Yes Hairstyling F 2 Bike Rack 3 By Grocery M 8 M.P. Lei Shop G 5 J 8 N 3B Bulosan’s Tailoring N 9 3 Golden Palace Seafood Good Health Pharmacy b6 3 3A Canton Market M 6 CURIOS & COLLECTIBLES Myra’s Leis & Flowers G 1 Golden River Restaurant L 8 Hawaii Kids at Work CC 1 Nikki’s Alteration H 5 bS 7 3B 3 China Arts H 9 Art Treasures D 1 Pauahi Leis & Flowers G 5 Good Fortune Chinese Restaurant G 1 Hawaii Watch Service Center L 8 Twins Shop Custom Tailor K 4 b3B 5 4 7 6 5 (Buses only) N Hotel bS S 4 4 Fanny’s Corner O 1 Guan Hua Antique Shirley’s Flowers O 1 Grondin French & Latin Kitchen G 3 Hawaii National Bank B 4 bv TRADITIONAL ASIAN MEDICINE 9 vS N Hote bv Hong Fa Market O 2 Furniture H 5 Sylvia’s Leis & Flowers O 1 Happy Garden Dim Sum G 3 Home Street Bank CC 2 10 11 1 l bb Acupuncture Herbs from China G 3 r 2 1 v Hong Kong market M 1 Hawaii Asian Art Auction C 8 Violet’s Lei Stand F10 HASR Bistro D 9 Island Tours & Travel I 2A e 9 1 12 S S b Anna Li Clinic DD 3 v a 1 i 2 v Kwong Tong Chong Co. I 2B Hound and Quail J 3 Hong Café Vietnamese G 5 K. Kaya Fishing Supplies J 5 8 e 10 11 1213 1 4 R 11 15 1 MARKETS - MEAT, FISH, PRODUCE Chinese Acupuncture/Herbs F 8 N L 3 2 k Lao Asian Market G 1 Jade East Ltd. I 2B F 1 Lam’s Income Tax Services D 1 K 10 u 1 Hunan Cuisine a 2 in 8 M h G 5 9 2 n 888 Produce J 4 Ding Hong Tong Herbal Store g t

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Smith Unions Smittys C15 Royer’s Fresh Fruit N 3A P AA Sun Fung Co. O 1 Saigon Vietnamese L 7 U.S. Post Office E 2 Thai Town Market & Video N 8 Entrance U & M Produce L 6 2 BEAUTY PRODUCTS & SALONS Scratch Kitchen & Bakeshop H 3 Wellness Pharmacy N 3 Vivian’s Liquor & Grocery O 4 JEWELRY Surface Parking Entrance Asian Hair Design H 5 ORGANIZATIONS & ASSOCIATIONS Smith & Kings I 1 Woodmen Life Insurance Soc. I 2A P D.D.J. Hawaii Jade G 3 Bao Thuy’s Barber L10 Algernon Foundation Song Huong K 3 Golden Star Fine Jewelry M 6 Big Thumb Hair Salon O 1 Sunflower Café Dim Sum F 7 ment of suburban shopping malls and multi-plexes, much of greater Welcome to Points of Interest INFORMATION: Chinatown was transformed by urban renewal projects. 10 In 1973, Chinatown became a National Historic District. Since 1 Historic granite ballast 12 Kuan Yin Temple, c. 1880 Foster Botanical Garden N HOURS: Chinatown, Hawaii that time, many people have invested considerable time and effort blocks from China ’s oldest Chinese W Marketplaces: usually open 7 days per week. to revitalize the area. From lei stands to herbalists and calligraphers These blocks were used to temple. 12 Specialty Foods: some open early and close by noon. Over unique to collectibles, there is much to discover in Honolulu’s Chinatown. stabilize trading ships on 300 their return voyage from 13 Historical & Modern DIRECTIONS: We hope that you will enjoy your journey! E Many Thanks to the sponsors of businesses and restaurants! China to Hawaii in the Courtyards S Chinatown is located mid point between Honolulu International Airport 1700 - 1800s. In olden times, many buildings and Waikiki. There is plenty of off-street parking in both municipal lots the updated Directory In olden times, the area around present-day had courtyards behind their 14 16 and private lots. Most of the streets in the area are one way only and 2 Flashpoint of the fire facades. They typically housed Hotel Street is reserved for buses only. Honolulu Harbor was named Kou and the harbor was etania of 1886. cooking sheds and latrines. 18 6 S. Ber called Mamala Bay. Fresh water from nearby Nuuanu Hawaii Theatre Center 17 Wing Wo Tai Building 19 ia stream created favorable conditions for taro farming 3 14 Izumo Taisha, c. 1923 N. Beretan 1887 - 1916 Kan Zaman Restaurant and human settlements. As foreign explorers The first victim of the This Shinto Shrine was built and adventurers made their way to Hawaii's shores, bubonic plague of 1900 without the use of a single Little Village Noodle House Honolulu's sheltered bay and deep water landing led worked here. nail. It was confiscated 13 to a bustling global trading economy. Large schooners could during WWII and a petition Restaurant Epic of 10,000 signatures led to the N. Pauahi Site of Honolulu’s Iron 15 berth just at the bottom of Nuuanu Street and unload wares 4 t 13 Smith Unions Smittys return of the shrine in 1962. e Chinatown Works and the original e r from around the world as well as ferry precious cargo from the t S 20 13 City Mill Ala Moana islands (sandalwood, tallow and blubber) to foreign shores. Busi- 15 Hawaii Theatre r 13 Honolulu e 13 Center v 26 International This directory is published as a community service project of the Built in 1922. Beautiful i nesses sprang up near the port to distribute these wares and a 5 Where trading ships R 2 Airport Chinatown Improvement District. The CID is a 501(c)3 non-profit paintings and gilt work on 1 27 city began to grow. In China, Hawaii was known for the fragrant docked. N. Hotel Waikiki organization formed to improve conditions in the greater the interior. Dubbed the 1 27

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K Merchant the information in this pamphlet as of the date of printing. Please Honolulu’s oldest restaurant. For more information contact TheBus at (808) 848-5555 or www.thebus.org. turned to business and set up shops in the growing port of Hono- Bakery send your comments, corrections or suggestions to us at the Established in 1882 and Like many small businesses Nimitz H 4 lulu. Immigrants often came from the same villages in China and wy contact information provided. subsequently rebuilt.The which started in Chinatown, 5 OTHER TRANSPORTATION: formed local societies around family and village affiliations. The neon sign is also a signature this is the original site of a The Waikiki Trolley, Aloha Bus and Honolulu City Tour buses also societies served as credit unions, bankers, mail depots, as well as piece of Chinatown’s history. business that now has 25 Honolulu Harbor have stops in the Chinatown area. social, cultural and political associations for the burgeoning immi- The site is now a market. l o c a t i o n s s t a t e - w i d e . g rant population. STREET ADDRESSES: CID Two-story wooden buildings (often with merchants living 8 Oahu Market, 1904 23 Winston Building, c. 1903 Chinatown Historic District Boundary Nuuanu Avenue marks the division between North and South addresses Chinatown for streets which run parallel to the shoreline. East of Nuuanu Avenue, Improvement District above their shops) wide sidewalks and awnings to protect people Honolulu’s oldest open- This building and the air market. one next door is built Public Sculpture & Commemorations addresses are for South King Street (and S. Beretania, S. Pauahi, S. Hotel). P.O. Box 37764 Honolulu, HI 96837 from the elements, and back alleyways were also characteristics of with a dense lava rock West of Nuuanu Avenue, addresses are for North King Street (N. Beretania, the Philippines after being Tel: (808) 589-9927 old Chinatown. Courtyards behind the buildings housed cooking 9 called blue rock. It is 16 Bell of Peace N. Pauahi and N. Hotel). The smaller the address number (1 N King Street Smith Unions Smittys A gift from the City of Hiroshima executed by the Spaniards. or 2 South King Street) the closer the location is to Nuuanu Avenue. www.CIDchinatownhawaii.org sheds and latrines. Awnings, alleyways and courtyards continue This building survived the extremely hard to cut and is often dynamited. The to the City of Honolulu to honor 20 2014 Update to be features of today’s Chinatown as well. Lei sellers, who were fire of 1900 and now houses their sister city relationship. Confucious & Kuan Yin traditional vendors near the docks from earliest times, continue the oldest continuously blocks were quarried and Two statues in the Maunakea cut by hand. t o have a significant presence in modern day Chinatown. operating bar in Honolulu. 17 Sun Yat-sen Statue Marketplace courtyard. In 1886, a fire broke out in a restaurant at the corner of Smith Celebrating the founder of 24 Pair of Dragon Gates 10 25 Lum Yip Kee Building. modern China. The octagonal and N. Hotel Streets. The fire spread quickly among the wooden Foster Botanical Garden Western gateway to Chinatown. One of the sites in base with writings by Dr. Sun Originally planted by the Sign says: For those who came buildings and burned for over three days razing eight blocks. Un- Honolulu where Sun was a later gift of the Sun famous botanist William to live and work in Chinatown. daunted, residents rebuilt their homes and businesses only to have Hillebrand, Mary Foster Yat-sen met with others Y a t - s e n F o u n d a t i o n . most of Chinatown destroyed in another conflagration in 1900 willed the garden to the to plan the Chinese 26 revolution of 1911. Sun Sun Yat-sen Statue (when deliberate burns to eradicate bubonic plague raged out of City in 1930. 18 T’sung Statue, 1971 Showing Sun Yat-sen as a Yat-sen is honored by control). Most buildings one sees today date from after 1900. Cast stone abstract work school boy in Hawaii. Site of Ancient Fishpond both the Republic of by Edward Brownlee. Includes Throughout the 20th century, Hawaii played a strategic role 11 China and the People’s Dating to 890 A.D. the proverb “all men within 27 Pair of Stone Lions during wars in the Pacific region. Military and naval personnel Republic as the founder the four seas are brothers”. A g i f t f r o m t h e C i t y o f flocked to Chinatown where movie theaters, bars and regulated of modern China. Kaohsiung in 1989 to celebrate the prostitution proliferated. Following the war years and the develop- 19 Dr. Jose P. Rizal Statue 200th anniversary of the first Dr. Rizal, a writer and poet, Chinese to arri ve in Hawaii. became a national hero of