it was youngest son Goro Arakawa who ingrained in the minds of Oahu residents the inextricable link between Arakawa’s and the Waipahu Sugar Mill only several hundred feet away. Less known ...

In 1960, the Toguchis moved the restaurant to Depot Road, just below the old Waipahu Sugar Mill. When the next generation ... and the cafe operation at Bishop Museum. Highway Inn now employs ...

WAIPAHU, OAHU (HawaiiNewsNow) - In the shadow of the old Waipahu sugar mill smokestack sits a replica of what plantation life used to look like. Hawaii's Plantation Village is the only cultural ...

A plan to revitalize the area is slowly beginning to help change Waipahu's image. There's a new library, community center, and youth and adult daycare center. The old Oahu Sugar Mill will be ...

Just below the old sugar mill on historic Depot Road sat Arakawa’s. Its famous palaka was part of the fabric of Waipahu’s old plantation life. Arakawa’s opened in 1909 selling goods to ...

While Waipahu has seen significant growth and change over the decades, one constant remains in the former plantation town: the sugar mill’s 175-foot smokestack, a symbol of the once-thriving ...

While smoke no longer rises from the Puunene Mill after its shutdown in 2016, the Sugar Museum across the street lives on, sharing the history of how sugar production grew and shaped Hawaii.