Kyoto Gardens of Honolulu Memorial Park, Cemetery with Japanese gardens and structures in Honolulu, Hawaii, US

Kyoto Gardens is a garden area within Honolulu Memorial Park that houses traditional Japanese structures including the Sanju Pagoda and a Kinkaku-ji-style building. This roughly two-acre site contains these structures that serve as columbariums for urns, along with a Mirror Lake Garden featuring water features, stones, and carefully chosen plantings.

The site was developed between 1964 and 1966 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The Sanju Pagoda and Kinkaku-ji building were created as interpretations of Japanese originals and demonstrate the cultural connection between Hawaii and Japan during this period.

The name Kyoto Gardens reflects the connection between Honolulu and the Japanese city of Kyoto, marked by a bronze bell donated in 1966. Visitors can experience traditional Japanese garden design here, with carefully laid paths, water features with carp, and plantings that echo gardens from Japan's Muromachi period.

The grounds sit at 22 Craigside Place in the Nuʻuanu area, next to Oahu Cemetery. The Sanju Pagoda and Kinkaku-ji columbarium were reported in poor repair as of 2006, so expect closed or fenced sections rather than open access to the structures.

The Sanju Pagoda reproduces Nara's Hokke-ji temple, built in the Momoyama period (1571–1602), but in concrete and steel and somewhat larger than the original: 80 feet from foundation to rooftop, 116 feet including the ku-rin copper spire. Both it and the Kinkaku-ji columbarium were in poor repair as of 2006 owing to the cemetery's financial difficulties.