PEARL HARBOR · OAHU
The Arizona, the Mighty Mo, and the harbor where it started.
The memorial above the sunken wreck, the surrender deck of the Missouri, the strafed Aviation Museum hangars on Ford Island — plus the Honolulu, Circle Island and Polynesian Center combos that pair with them, from anywhere on Oahu.
Only at Pearl Harbor
The three things you came to see.
Naval museums and WWII memorials exist all over the world. None of them are the actual ship that started it, the actual ship that ended it, and the actual hangars that were attacked — all sitting half a mile apart in one working harbor. Plan everything else around them.
Above the wreck
The Memorial Over the Arizona
The USS Arizona is the only memorial in the world built directly over a sunken warship that still holds her crew. 1,102 sailors remain inside the hull, sealed in the wreckage where they fell on the morning of December 7, 1941. Oil still drops from the ship to the harbor surface every day — visitors call it the tears of the Arizona. You stand on a white concrete pavilion looking down at her gun turrets through clear Pacific water.
- 1 Salute to Pearl Harbor Including USS Arizona
- 2 Oahu: Pearl Harbor USS Arizona Memorial
- 3 Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona Memorial & Honolulu City Tour
Where it ended
The Surrender Deck of the Mighty Mo
On September 2, 1945, Japanese officials walked onto the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay and signed the surrender that ended the Second World War. The bronze plaque marking the exact spot is still bolted to the teak. The Pacific war began at the Arizona and ended on the Mighty Mo — both ships now rest a half-mile apart in the same harbor. You can stand on the surrender spot in the morning and the wreck site in the afternoon.
- 1 Oahu: Pearl Harbor USS Arizona Memorial & Battleship Missouri
- 2 Pearl Harbor: USS Arizona Memorial & USS Missouri Battleship Tour from Waikiki
- 3 Pearl Harbor: USS Arizona Memorial & Battleship Missouri
Inside the hangars
The Hangars That Were Strafed
The Aviation Museum sits on Ford Island in the actual hangars that were attacked on the morning of December 7. Bullet holes still mark the original glass and steel of Hangar 79. A restored Mitsubishi Zero, a Wildcat that fought at Midway, a B-25 — historic aircraft inside the buildings where the attack landed. You walk past the strafing damage to reach them.
- 1 Oahu: Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Entry Ticket
- 2 Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Ticket with Audio Tour and Shuttle
- 3 Deluxe Arizona Memorial and Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Tour
If you only have one morning
Start with the booking everyone makes.
Most travellers visit Pearl Harbor on a half-day tour out of Waikiki — the Arizona Memorial, the harbor cruise, transport both ways. This is the one they book first.
The classics
Pearl Harbor's Most Popular Tours
USS Arizona Memorial, Battleship Missouri, Aviation Museum, Punchbowl Cemetery. The combinations most travellers book first.
Where to start
Pick where to begin.
USS Arizona for the memorial above the wreck. The Missouri for the deck where the war ended. The Aviation Museum for the strafed hangars. Then Honolulu, the Circle Island loop, or pickup back to Waikiki.
Or by tour style
Or pick how you want to see it.
Audio guides for self-paced. Private if you want every question answered. VIP for the early-morning entry. Pearl Harbor Passport for the all-sites pass. WWII Heroes for the historian-led day. Combos for the rest of Oahu in the afternoon.
Where you're staying
Coming from Waikiki, Maui, or another island?
Pearl Harbor sits on Oahu's south shore, 25 minutes west of Waikiki. The standard tour includes hotel pickup. If you're staying on a different island, several operators run same-day fly-in trips from Maui, Kauai, and the Big Island. Pick your starting point.
If you want all four
The all-sites day.
The Passport ticket covers the Arizona, the Missouri, the Aviation Museum and the Bowfin Submarine in one combined day. These three are the operators who actually deliver the full circuit — pickup at the start, guided through each, drop-off at the end.
For the history-minded
The deeper-dive days.
Smaller groups, military historian guides, longer at every stop. Three tours that go beyond the standard memorial loop — for travellers who came to understand the day, not just to see the ships.
After the harbor
The rest of Oahu in one day.
Pearl Harbor in the morning, Polynesian Cultural Center in the afternoon. Or Dole Plantation through the central uplands. Or a North Shore drive past Waimea Bay. Three full-island combo days that pair the memorials with the rest of what makes a trip to Oahu worth the flight.
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