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Arakura

Arakura is a northern suburb of Wainuiomata, part of Lower Hutt city situated in the lower (southern) North Island of New Zealand.

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The place

Arakura is a northern suburb of Wainuiomata, part of Lower Hutt city situated in the lower (southern) North Island of New Zealand. It was developed in the 1950s and 1960s, when farmland was subdivided for state and private housing.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Arakura

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Callaghan Innovation

    Callaghan Innovation was a New Zealand Crown entity responsible for making New Zealand business more innovative.

    2.4 km · New Zealand research institute · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Arakura

Airports
Wellington (WLG), 15 km
Stations
Waterloo railway station, 3.5 km · Hutt Park railway station, 3.1 km · Epuni railway station, 3.8 km
  • Christchurch → Arakura
    319 km · quickest by air, 4h 24m · NZ$160–240
  • Auckland → Arakura
    487 km · quickest by air, 5h 7m · NZ$200–300
  • Queenstown → Arakura
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Arakura

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Arakura. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    687 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,278 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,687 km
  4. 04
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,310 km
  5. 05
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,455 km

If you know how people move in Arakura – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Arakura

Arakura is 15 km from Wellington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Lower Huttcity in the Wellington Region of New Zealand3.6 km
  • Wainuiomatatown in New Zealand2.5 km
  • Epunisuburb in Lower Hutt City, New Zealand3.3 km
  • Fairfieldsuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand3 km
  • Seaviewsuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand3.4 km
  • Waterloosuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand3 km