Hanakao'o Cemetery

Grateful this cemetery survived the fire. It is one of my favorite historic sites in Maui, I testament to the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino peoples who lived and worked here in the late 19th and...

The Hanakao'o cemetery is just south of Lahaina. The cemetery has remains of Asian and Filipino immigrants who made their way to Hawaii to work on the sugar and pineapple plantations. I love...

I love old cemeteries and in some ways this did not disappoint. Most graves are from 1920s and 30s and about half are in what I assume is Japanese. What would make a five star historical...

Cemetery by the sea .. we stopped to watch surfing and saw this tiny cemetery. I went over to check it out and thought it was interesting .. being right by the ocean and headstones in Japanese...

Love the history behind this cemetery. Sometimes improvising a head stone last the longest! For the happiest goth there is, it was great to have 2 totally different forms of beauty within one view.