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Chatswood

Chatswood is a suburb and commercial centre in the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, 10 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district.

Chatswood
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The place

Chatswood is a suburb and commercial centre in the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, 10 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district. It is also the administrative seat of the local government area of the City of Willoughby.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chatswood

10 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.

  1. 01
    Fishwick House

    The Fishwick House is a heritage-listed private residence located at 15 The Citadel, Castlecrag, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. It was designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin and built during 1929.

    3.7 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Innisfallen Castle and grounds

    Innisfallen Castle and grounds is a heritage-listed Australian mansion in Sydney's Lower North Shore. Located at 14 Cherry Place, Castle Cove, New South Wales, the castle is situated on a point overlooking Sugarloaf Bay in Middle Harbour.

    3.9 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Roseville Bridge

    The Roseville Bridge is a pre-stressed concrete box girder road bridge that carries Warringah Road, part of the A38 across Middle Harbour, located adjacent to the suburb of Roseville Chase, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The bridge is one of two crossings of Middle Harbour, the other being the Spit Bridge.

    3.4 km · bridge in Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Chatswood Chase

    Chatswood Chase is a shopping centre in the suburb of Chatswood on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, Australia.

    500 m · shopping mall in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Chatswood Oval

    Chatswood Oval is located south of the Chatswood railway station in Chatswood, a suburb on Sydney's Lower North Shore. It has four small pavilions and seating surrounding the oval.

    300 m · Australian cricket/rugby sports stadium · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Chatswood South Uniting Church, Sydney

    The Chatswood South Uniting Church is a heritage-listed Uniting church at 518 Pacific Highway, Lane Cove North, Sydney, Australia. It was designed by Thomas Rowe and possibly a Mr Morrow also and built by Bryson, Leet, Johnson & Montgomery.

    1.1 km · church building in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Mowbray House

    Mowbray House is a heritage-listed historic building that was an independent, day and boarding school for boys, located in Chatswood, on the North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. More recently, it was part of an Ausgrid depot site.

    900 m · historic building that was a school for boys, located in Chatswood, Sydney, New South Wales · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    The Concourse, Chatswood

    The Concourse is a cultural centre in Chatswood, a suburb in Lower North Shore, Sydney. Opened in 2011, the complex includes facilities such as a civic pavilion, a concert hall, Chatswood Library, a theatre and other venues for cultural uses.

    200 m · building in Chatswood, New South Wales · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Westfield Chatswood

    Westfield Chatswood is a large indoor shopping centre in the suburb of Chatswood in the Lower North Shore of Sydney.

    200 m · shopping centre in Chatswood, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Muston Park

    Muston Park is a 2-hectare urban park situated in the suburb of Chatswood, approximately 7 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in New South Wales, Australia.

    1.5 km · park in New South Wales, Australia · 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.

Go there

Getting to Chatswood

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 17 km · Newcastle (NTL), 127 km
Stations
Chatswood railway station, 100 m · Artarmon railway station, 1.4 km · St Leonards railway station, 3.1 km · Killara railway station, 3.9 km · Lindfield railway station, 2.7 km
  • Williamtown → Chatswood
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · A$19–26
  • Gold Coast → Chatswood
    680 km · quickest by air, 5h 23m · A$240–360
  • Toowoomba → Chatswood
    698 km · quickest by air, 5h 11m · A$230–350
  • From anywhere
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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 Chatswood

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTo some islands you can catch a scheduled ferry service, either on either Sydney Ferries or Captain Cook/Matilda Ferries.
  • Get inYou can also catch a water taxi, or impose on a friend with a boat to drop you off.
  • Get inIf you catch a Sydney Ferry, it is part of the ferry network.
  • Get inMatilda/Captain Cook ferries, and they don't accept Opal, and only sell return tickets to Circular Quay or Darling Harbour ($17/$15) The do offer bundles with other ferry trips, such as their all day explorer ticket ($42/$26).
  • Get inWater taxi fares start around $50 and go upwards to around $200 which usually includes the first few passengers.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Harbour Islands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    973 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,109 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,290 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,876 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,258 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chatswood

Chatswood is 8 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Longuevillesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.8 km
  • Artarmonsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.4 km
  • Lane Covesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.5 km
  • Killarasuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
  • Lindfieldsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.4 km
  • Crows Nestsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.8 km