Aranui
Aranui is one of the eastern suburbs of Christchurch.
Aranui is one of the eastern suburbs of Christchurch. It is a low socio-economic area. In its early years, Aranui grew along Pages Road, the suburb's main road. Aranui soon became a working-class suburb. There are also areas of light-industrial premises in Aranui.
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Worth seeing in and around Aranui
4 places 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.
- 01New Brighton Pier
There have been two New Brighton Piers in the Christchurch, New Zealand, suburb of New Brighton. The first pier, of wooden construction, opened on 18 January 1894 and was demolished on 12 October 1965.
2.2 km · pier in New Zealand · Wikipedia - 02Linwood Cemetery
Linwood Cemetery is a cemetery located in Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand. It is the fifth oldest public cemetery in the city.
3 km · cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 03Bromley Cemetery
Bromley Cemetery is a cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand. It occupies approximately 10 hectares to the east of the city centre, on the corner of Keighleys Road and Linwood Avenue.
3.7 km · cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 04The Palms Shopping Centre
The Palms Shopping Centre is a shopping mall located in the suburb of Shirley, Christchurch, situated 4 kilometres from the city's CBD. The anchor by Woolworths, Farmers, Reading Cinema, and Chemist Warehouse. Kmart closed its doors at said mall after 23 years.
3.5 km · shopping mall in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
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Getting to Aranui
- Airports
- Christchurch (CHC), 14 km · Wellington (WLG), 298 km
- Wellington → Aranui300 km · quickest by air, 4h 2m · NZ$140–220
- Queenstown → AranuiTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Auckland → Aranui761 km · quickest by air, 5h 21m · NZ$220–340
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Aranui
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 Aranui. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis scenic train journey can be done as a day trip.
- Get inAt Picton the Coastal Pacific connects with the Cook Strait ferries from Wellington in the North Island.
- Get inThe train departs Christchurch at 7AM and arrives in Picton at 1:15PM, connecting with the 2PM ferry to Wellington.
- Get inThe 9AM ferry from Wellington connects with the train departing Picton at 2:15PM and arriving in Christchurch at 8:30PM.
- Get aroundServices cover the whole city and areas of interest for a visitor that lie outside the central city, such as Sumner and New Brighton beaches, Lyttelton, and the Gondola.
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Next door to Aranui
Aranui is 6 km from Christchurch, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.