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Bairiki

Bairiki is a town located in South Tarawa, Kiribati.

Bairiki
Bairiki · Photo taken by Government of Kiribati employee in the course of their…
The place

Bairiki is a town located in South Tarawa, Kiribati. It is crucial to the country's political and administrative structure as several governmental organizations and diplomatic missions are situated there.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bairiki

Airports
Bonriki (TRW), 19 km
  • Majuro Atoll → Bairiki
    672 km · quickest by air, 6h · $270–400
  • Okat → Bairiki
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bairiki

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 Bairiki. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inCaptains usually accept hitchhikers for a small fee.

From Wikivoyage: Tarawa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
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    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    3,643 km
  2. 02
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,727 km
  3. 03
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    5,139 km
  4. 04
    SiargaoPH

    10 ways of moving, 33 sources

    5,274 km
  5. 05
    Leyte IslandPH

    11 ways of moving, 20 sources

    5,417 km

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