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Restaurants & cafés
Da Poke Shack Kailua-Kona walk-up counter doing nothing but poke bowls and pulled-ahi plates — house-marinated cubes of yellowfin and aku over hot rice with seaweed salad. The Kona poke standard locals reorder.
Umekes Fish Market Bar & Grill Kona room doing Hawaiian-Asian-leaning seafood — poke bowls, ahi belly, miso-glazed butterfish, and sashimi. The locals' upmarket seafood pick that out-of-towners often miss.
Trails & outdoors
Kilauea Iki Trail Four-mile loop in Volcanoes National Park — drops 400 feet into a still-steaming 1959 crater, walks the cracked lava-lake floor, and climbs back through ohia rainforest. The signature volcano hike.
Pu'u Loa Petroglyphs Trail Easy one-and-a-half mile out-and-back across a lava-rock plain to a wooden boardwalk over 23,000 ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs carved by piko-burying parents. Hot, exposed, deeply moving when read slowly.
Things to do
Imiloa Astronomy Center Hilo astronomy-and-Polynesian-navigation museum on the University of Hawaii Hilo campus — connects modern astronomy to traditional Hawaiian wayfinding. Planetarium shows, hands-on exhibits, and a deeper context for any Mauna Kea visit.
Lyman Museum and Mission House Hilo museum and restored 1839 missionary house — natural history of the island, plantation-era artifacts, and the oldest standing wood-frame building in the state. Smaller and more focused than the State Museum.
Landmarks & sights
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park 333,000 acres straddling Kilauea and Mauna Loa — the place where Hawaii is literally still being built. Crater Rim Drive, Chain of Craters Road, hikeable lava-tube tunnels, and a steam-vented Kilauea caldera that's been the most active volcano on earth for centuries.
Hapuna Beach State Recreation Area Half-mile crescent of white sand on the Kohala Coast — repeatedly voted the best beach in the United States by Conde Nast Traveler. Wide, lifeguarded, with snorkeling at the rocky points on either end and the most reliable wave conditions for kids.