Despite the closing of the Pioneer Sugar Mill and the disappearance of sugar cane fields in West Maui, the owners of the LK&P continue to go on.
Every Thursday evening the Sugar Cane Train becomes the dinner train as guests can enjoy not only the train ride but a local-style biffet dinner and an authentic hula show featuring members of the Na Pua O Kapiolani Hula Studio. Prices for the dinner train are $59.95 for adults and $45.95 for children (3-12). Children under 3 are free.
The train is also now used for parties and special receptions. Since 1970 over five million tourists have taken the Sugar Cane Train.
There are certainly no signs that this popular West Maui tourist attraction will go the route of the sugar mill and industry from which it derives its name.
You can learn more about the Sugar Cane Train at their website www.sugarcanetrain.com.
Further Reading
American Nisei novelist and playwright Milton Murayama has written an excellent series of four books tracing the story of a Japanese immigrant family which lived in West Maui and worked the sugar cane plantation. All are available through our comparison price partner Pricegrabber.com.
These books are:
