A local attraction at Mānoa is the farmer's market at the Mānoa Marketplace.

Mānoa is an urban neighborhood community of Honolulu, Hawai'i approximately three miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu and less than a mile from Ala Moana and Waikīkī. The neighborhood community is composed of private houses built previous to the 1960s and mid-rise and high-rise condominiums. Mānoa is home to the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, the flagship campus of the University of Hawai'i System. The civic center of Mānoa is the Mānoa Marketplace which features a farmer's market several days of the week.

Mānoa is the site of the first sugarcane and coffee plantations in the Hawaiian Islands. John Wilkinson planted the first crops in 1825. Today, coffee is one of the most precious agricultural products from Hawai'i. Hawai'i is the only state that produces coffee commercially in the country.

Manoa is also another name (used by natives) for El Dorado. It describes either the city itself or the lake close to it or the whole region. Another name used is Omoa.