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Lost is an American drama series that has aired on ABC since September 22, 2004. Filmed on Panavision 35 mm cameras almost entirely on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, various urban areas in and around Honolulu are used as stand-ins for locations around the world. Extensive archives of filming locations are tracked at a repository at the Lost Virtual Tour.

Interest in the television series "Lost" has lead to the formation of several specialized tours dealing exclusively with various production sites used to film the show around the island of Oahu, Hawaii.

Filming locales

The show, which is filmed in Hawaii, uses many local areas for multiple different locations. Worldly locations used on the show include California, New York, Iowa, Miami, South Korea, Iraq, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Paris, Thailand, Berlin and Australia. Another particular scene, set in Germany during the winter, was also filmed in a relatively regular Hawaiian neighborhood. To obtain a Russian locale effect, crushed ice was scattered to create snow and German automobile signs on the street were used.

Mokule'ia Beach

This beach is located just past Dillingham Airfield near the northwest tip of the island and is the site of the crash of flight 815 first seen on the Series premere. The tree Hurley rested at during moist of Season 1 along with Jin's fishing spot are located here. During the filming of the Crash scene the local police station recieved so many 911 calls that the production team started to put up signs indicating it was a film set.

Kawela Bay Beach

Kawela Bay Beach is located on the north side of the island and is used in the season one episode "Confidence man."

Papa'iloa Beach

Papa'iloa Beach is the location used to film the survivor's camp of flight 815 during the first four seasons of the television series. Much of the set was taken down due to not being used during the filming of season 5; however, the framework of the structure to the church built by Charlie and Mr. Eko are still visible at the site. This shooting location is closed-off to the public both while filming and off-season and is protected by studio guards at all times.

Fazio Course, Turtle Bay

This location was used in season 4 for the episode "The Economist", and was shot on the 17th hole. It was named Seychelles golf course for the episode and was where Sayid killed Peter Avellino while working as an assassin for Ben.

Ka'a'awa Valley

This location was used as Hurley's golf course and the location of the busted Dharma van in season 3. It was also the location of the Dharma Initiave's security fence and the tube dump. This location has also been used in feature films such as "Jurassic Park", Pearl Harbor", and "Godzilla." .

Kapena Falls

These waterfalls have been used for several key lost scenes with everyone from Hurley to Charlotte trekking past them at one point or another. The waterfalls are also home to ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs.

Buildings

Xerox parts warehouse

Cave scenes in the first season were filmed on a sound stage built at a Xerox parts warehouse, which had been empty since an employee mass shooting took place there in 1999. The sound-stage and production offices have since moved to the Hawaii Film Office-operated Hawaii Film Studio, where the sets depicting Season 2's "Swan Station" and Season 3's "Hydra Station" interiors were built.

Byodo-in Buddhist Temple

Known on the show as Mr. Pail's family house and the setting of Sun and Jin's wedding, this temple is a replica of a 900 year-old temple and houses a nine-foot Lotus Buddha. It is surrounded by traditional Japanese gardens and a two-acre koi pond. To the left of the temple is a small grove of bambo trees used for many of the scenes Sawyer.

Hy's Steakhouse

This steakhouse located in Waikiki, Hawaii; was changed from an opulent restraunt to London's Southfield's auction house for uses in episode "The Constant". It was here that Charles Widmore purchased the Black Rock manifest.

Keali'iokamalu Church and Waialua Sugar Mill

The name of the church Ke Ali'i O Ka Malu means "prince of peace" and was used as Yemi's church in Africa. Other parts of Yemi's church and other various African sences were shot around the nearby Waialua Sugar mill. The mill was closed in 1996, but is open to visitors. The surrounding roads were also used to shoot Edwrd Mars' car accident in "What Kate Did."

Macky's Shrimp Truck

This was the location in which Sawyer meet the man whom he thought was the real "tom Sawyer" that cheated his Mother and Father.

La'ie Inn

This site was used as Kate's hotel in Ohio and was used to shoot the scenes where kate was on the run after killing her stepfather in the episode " ". The hotel uses a distinctive pineapple motif on each door that was changed to an ear of corn during shooting. The cornfield was also digitally added to the shoot later while removing the palm trees that normally surround the property.

YMCA Camp Erdman

The Dharma Initaive camp shown throughout the series were owned by the YMCA prior to filming. Various huts were added during production including Ben's house and an additional house that was burnt down during Season 4. These houses are rentable to the public when filming is not taking place.

Hawaii Convention Center

Rather than filming in Australia, the Hawaii Convention Center was used as a stand in for the Sydney Airport. The foyer area and escalator were used for several scenes in the first season scenes of the passengers before boarding flight 815. The rooftop rooms of the convention center doubled as Christian Shepherd's Australian hotel suite and the kitchen was used as an LA morgue for Ana Lucia's storyline.

Off island locations

Several scenes in the Season 3 finale, "Through the Looking Glass," were shot in Los Angeles, including a hospital set borrowed from Grey's Anatomy. Two scenes during season four were filmed in London because Alan Dale who portrays Widmore was at the time performing in the musical Spamalot and was unable to travel to Hawaii.