Fresh Eyes

The City of Hiroshima donated a half-size scale replica of its famous Torii Gate to Honolulu in 2001. The friendship offering stands in the small McCully-Moiliili triangle park, where King and Beretania streets split near the University of Hawaii.

The park itself was unkempt, but the area around the gate was neatly mown.

Thousands of people drive by every day with hardly anyone giving it a second thought. I'm like them back home in the Bay Area, but as someone who hasn't lived in Honolulu for a long time I have fresh eyes.