Kona Coffee Living History Farm, Coffee farming museum in Kona, US.

The Kona Coffee Living History Farm occupies the 5.5-acre Daisaku Uchida Coffee Farm in Kealakekua, in the Kona District of Hawaiʻi. Its open-air museum setting pairs the family farmhouse, enlarged in 1925, with a coffee orchard and a coffee mill. Self-guided tours lead through these buildings and grounds.

The 5.5-acre farm was established in 1900 on land owned by the Greenwell family, whose coffee trading in the area dated to the 1870s. Daisaku Uchida arrived from southern Japan on September 27, 1906, at age 19, worked a three-year sugar contract at Līhuʻe Plantation on Kauaʻi, then came to Kona. He married his cousin Shima Maruo in 1912; they moved to the farm in 1913 and expanded the house in 1925. The family lived here until Shima died in 1966 and Daisaku in 1986.

You can see how Japanese immigrant farmers lived and worked here through costumed guides demonstrating traditional coffee processing and cooking methods. This shows how the community kept its cultural practices alive in their adopted home.

The best way to explore the site is to allow time for a self-guided walk through the buildings and gardens. Wear comfortable shoes and bring water, as the grounds are exposed to sun and get quite warm.

The farm uses old processing machines like kuriba mills and hoshidana drying platforms that are rarely seen elsewhere. These specific tools allowed farmers to process coffee using traditional Japanese methods.