Foster Botanical Garden

The Foster Botanical Garden, measuring 13.5 acres (5.5 ha), is one of three botanical gardens located at 50 North Vineyard Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (near Chinatown at the intersection of Nu'uanu avenue and Vineyard Boulevard). Foster is unique in that it is in a highly urban area with strip malls, schools, and both Buddhist and Methodist religious facilities nearby.

The Garden is the oldest botanical garden in Hawaii, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Foster Botanical Garden in Days of Infamy
The Foster Botanical Garden was used to house Japanese refugee's after the conquest of Honolulu by the Japanese Army. Many of it's numerous tree's where cut down for firewood, to the great distress of the garden's owners and staff; but there was little they could do about it.

After the US liberated the islands, the Garden was used to house enemy alien's until they could figure out what to do with them.