Waikiki Apple Store Grand Opening

By Todd Ogasawara
September 27, 2008 | Comments: 4

Honolulu's third Apple Store opened this morning. The newest Apple Store is in the heart of Waikiki in the Royal Hawaiian ~~Shopping~~ Center. Traffic near there was nutty this morning. So, I bypassed it and got metered parking along the beach.

Couple of trivia items. First, this is the only Apple Store in Honolulu that does not have free parking. That probably explains why they still had t-shirts available even though I actually arrived after the doors had opened. Second, this is the only Apple Store in Honolulu that fronts a street. The other two are in the inner part of the shopping malls.

Waikiki Apple Store grand opening from Todd Ogasawara on Vimeo.
Please accept my usual apology for my "Blair Witch" style video. And, FYI, footage near the Apple Store starts at 1:21 if you want to skip footage of my walk through the Waikiki beach area.

A friend of mine, Ryan Ozawa, was at the store before dawn. He took a lot of great photos. You can find his photos linked to the sample photo below.

4 Comments

Grace Darline Dye said:

Love this Apple Store in Waikiki!!! Great classes...awesome instructors and the fellows at the genius bar are superb and just make you so happy to be apart of the i phone family!!!! Mahalo

January 4, 2009 1:33 PM

Todd Ogasawara said:

Daniel: Thanks for the correction! I struck out the word "shopping" above.

Ryan: Great video! I recommend people head over to Ryan's video to see a good video with no "Blair Witch" style videography like mine :-)

September 28, 2008 1:28 PM

Daniel said:

It's now called the Royal Hawaiian Center... they dropped the "Shopping". Thanks for the coverage!

September 28, 2008 12:47 PM

Ryan said:

Thanks for the photo link! I also put together a HD video of the morning's events, including the last few frantic hours of construction to put the finishing touches on the storefront:

http://www.vimeo.com/1830381

September 28, 2008 10:16 AM