Living In The BIGGEST CITY In Hawaii - How I Make HONOLULU Work

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I’m from Pearl City. Lived here all my life. Driving into town starts at Middle Street and ends at UH. I think Punchbowl is part of town, although it is Mauka of H1, so there’s gray area for how inland is Honolulu. But the core of “downtown” is Chinatown to Ala Moana in my opinion. Thanks for a great video!

I’ve lived here 10+ years (all in the Ala Moana area). Everyone I know in Town uses “Downtown” to refer only to the historic/business downtown area around Bishop Street… basically from 'Iolani Palace west. Usually to include Chinatown, possibly Iwilei. The only people I’ve seen refer to Waikiki/Ala Moana/Ward as “downtown” are visitors, military families, and maybe some far Westside or North Shore people who think of any walkable area with city blocks as “downtown”.

Great info, to the point and accurate. You two have such great local style, thanks for the video.

Great video! I try to explain this to visiting family and friends but you do it way better. I’ll just send them this video to watch before they come!

Mauka, Makai, Diamond Head and Ewa is the best way to express directions on an island. Your orientation will be different depending on where your starting point is. But if you know where the mountain and ocean are in approximation to where you are, you’ll never get confused. “Town” is residential, shopping, schools, condos, businesses on the Ala Moana side of the island. Salt Lake to Hawaii Kai, loosely. When my relatives in Kailua say they’re coming into town, it could be Makiki, Downtown business district, Waikiki etc. So long as they cross over the Pali tunnel or H-3, they’re coming into “town.” Just discovered your channel. It’s great, succinct and filled with useful information. Keep up the great work!

All these years of visiting Honolulu, I am finally learning the correct pronunciation of all these towns. Thank you so much.

Love all your videos, but this one is really next level - well done! I’d say this should be the first CTH video everyone should watch before all others because it provides such a concise overview of the lay of the land. And the presenter exudes so much warmth and style - I’d move to Hawaii just to know more people like her!

I just put 500 miles on a rental car, drove the island for a week, checked everywhere, and decided to sign a lease in Hawaii Kai. I'm from the mainland and renting sight unseen is almost impossible so I had to book a flight/Airbnb to make that happen. Honolulu isn't my favorite spot on the island but Hawaii Kai has good schools and Waikiki is very underrated and fun. We're moving at the end of Oct. 2.5 years in the works, 7 years of dreaming, & it's finally happening.

I am from Honolulu. Lived here most of my life. This is great!

I grew up in Ewa and always dreamed of living at Ward. We now live right by Ward theater and I'm so happy we worked hard and pulled through.

I'm from Upstate NY and when we say down town we mean Like the part of the city where all the business buildings are like where King and Bishop meet. It's usually where places like the courts, stated building and all the tall business buildings are.

Love your videos! They've been so helpful for me. My husband and I may be visiting Waikiki in November to tour the island for new builds. I'll have him reach out to your team and see if we can make this move happen.🙏🏽🥰

These videos are so awesome, I'm always looking for this info and just keep landing on tourists recycling a wikipedia entry. Thanks guys!

I love it so much here I retired after serving 30 years in the Army. This is one Very Informative video, especially for newcomers to the Island.

This is really helpful!

Lived there 30 years. But done there, done that Nice people, great weather, too many people, But now on Mainland for something different. This is a good channel as they know what they are talking about.

Great stuff. Love the videos. I feel acclimated into the islands already and not even there yet, lol.

I love living Hawaii Kai, Kahala, Kaimuki, Kahala... the east side of town is so nice for me for travel, get out of town fast. One of my favorite buildings is actually Waikiki Banyan. The location is just perfect for me. I wish I could live windward, but it's hard to find a place that we can have our dog. I ended up buying Big Island for the space, but we have our boat in town (La Mariana). I've been off island for work for too long. I can't wait to get back home, and your videos really help with the homesickness, so mahalo nui!

Thank you for this video! My family could be moving to the area for work soon. I’m from Philadelphia so it’s a big move and I’m use to walking so I definitely needed to get an idea of where to move.