Hawaii's Plantation Village

08/19/2026

Happening today.

08/18/2026

After being closed for a week to have our parking repaved, we have a brand new parking lot (and painted new lines) and parts of our sidewalk were also redone too.

08/17/2026

08/07/2026

Hawaii's Plantation Village will be participating in the upcoming Remembrance Awakened: Speaker Series presented by National Parks Service Honouliuli National Historic Site. Our very own Clem Bautista, HPV Board Secretary and long time volunteer archivist will share how Hawaii's Plantation Village remembers and preserves immigrant history in Hawaii. For more information and to register, please see the attached post.

As a part of Honouliuli National Historic Site's 80 Years of Closure Commemoration, they are partnering with Pacific Historic Parks to bring a new, free, virtual speaker series to the community. Titled "Remembrance Awakened", this speaker series will focus on remembrance through the lenses of art, architecture, institutions, and technology. By examining remembrance through these undervalued lenses, we can expand what we understand about the incarceration story by learning how far its impacts spread.

August's Remembrance Awakened speakers will be Alphie Garcia, the Information Resources and Collection Management Librarian at the University of Hawaii - West Oahu, Devynn Kochi, Archives Resource Manager of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i, and Clement Bautista, a longtime volunteer at Hawaii's Plantation Village

This is a free, virtual event. Registration is required to attend.

EVENT DETAILS:
August 18, 5:30-6:30pm HST
Link to register is: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/n1D03WQLQoixirbKNXYv0g. Registration may work better on computer browser.

06/18/2026

Our friends from Ewa Hongwanji Mission will be having their bon dance this Saturday, June 20, 2026. The Ewa Fukushima Bon Dance Club, Oahu District Bon Dance Club and 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Hawaii Eisa Shinyuu Kai will be there. All three groups participated in our Obon Celebration earlier this month so please support them this Saturday.

Join us for our Annual Bon Dance coming up on June 20 from 6:30p to 9:30p
Food booths will open at 5:00p
Hope to see you there!!!

06/12/2026

Our friends from Wahiawa Hongwanji Bon Dance Team who were here last weekend will be leading the bon dance at Wahiawa Hongwanji Mission tonight and tomorrow night. Lots of food booths and crafts. Dance is from 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Ewa Fukushim Bon Dance Club will be there both nights and Hawaii Eisa Shinyuu Kai will also be there on Saturday night.

06/09/2026

Thank you to Honolulu Star Advertiser for coming to our 36th Annual Obon Celebration.

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2026/06/06/photo-gallery/36th-annual-obon-celebration-in-waipahu/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSUUndleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFIMVZUZGRJYXRCcmpMVWRsc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhh1saaYd-DGN2Ow8qnlV5R4omg5A4jCmImcltqE5mUFMmaRPsXIYuAhf5dU_aem_y6XIRqJEyLeTnL5eLVjchw

The community came together on Saturday at Hawaii’s Plantation Village’s 36th annual Obon Celebration in Waipahu, which also featured a lantern floating ceremony. Dancers in happi coats swayed to the rhythm of taiko drums. The traditional Japanese Buddhist festival honors ancestral spirits, who ...

06/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who helped make our 36th Annual Obon Celebration a success. We hope that everyone who came enjoyed the event and we look forward to seeing you again at our Harvest Moon Festival in September.