Today Oʻahu is Hawaiʻi's gathering place in full: the capital and the crowds, the surf and the city, home to roughly a million people and to the most blended culture in the islands, where nearly everyone's grandparents came from somewhere else and the food, festivals and music to match are part of daily life. It became the heart of the fiftieth state in 1959, and it remains where Hawaiʻi meets the world. Our Oʻahu designs gather that spirit into wearable form. Oʻahu — the Gathering Place, where Diamond Head watches over Hawaiʻi's beating heart.
That sovereignty was taken. On January 17, 1893, Queen Liliʻuokalani — the last reigning monarch, and the composer of "Aloha ʻOe" — was deposed in Honolulu by a group backed by American business interests, and the Hawaiian Kingdom came to an end; annexation followed. It is a history Oʻahu carries with care and remembers honestly, named here as fact rather than ornament.
Why People Visit Oʻahu
Oʻahu offers the whole of Hawaiʻi in one place: deep history and living culture, world-famous surf, a great multicultural city, and beaches for every mood. It is where most visitors begin — and, for the million people who live here, simply home, the island where Hawaiʻi gathers.
