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The spy who watched Pearl Harbor from Alewa Heights
In 1941 a Japanese naval officer posing as a junior diplomat spent his days at the tea house on Makanani Drive. The family had no idea what he was doing with the telescope upstairs.
Honolulu once had five tea houses. Natsunoya is the last.
In 1999 the Star-Bulletin came up to Alewa Heights to write about one of the last tea houses in town, and found a $100,000 repair job, 11,400 bentos and chefs who had stayed twenty-five years.