East Perth
East Perth is an inner suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located next to the Perth central business district.
East Perth is an inner suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located next to the Perth central business district. Claise Brook and Claisebrook Cove are within the suburb. Formerly characterised by industrial land uses and urban blight, the redevelopment of East Perth was, and remains, the largest inner-city urban renewal project in the state. The design of the new residential neighbourhoods was strongly influenced by the new urbanism movement.
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Worth seeing in and around East Perth
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.
- 01Perth Rectangular Stadium
Perth Rectangular Stadium is a stadium located near the Perth central business district. It is primarily used for soccer and rugby union as the home ground of Perth Glory FC in the A-League Men and the Western Force in the Super Rugby Pacific.
1.4 km · stadium in Vincent, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 02Perth Stadium
Perth Stadium is a stadium located in the Perth suburb of Burswood. It is primarily used for Australian rules football and cricket as the home ground of the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League and the Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League.
1.4 km · stadium in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 03Central Park
Central Park is a 51-storey office tower in Perth, Western Australia. The building measures 226 m from its base at St Georges Terrace to the roof, and 261.7 m to the tip of its communications mast.
2 km · skyscraper in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 04Edith Cowan University
Edith Cowan University is a public research university in Western Australia. It is named in honour of Edith Cowan, the first woman to be elected to an Australian parliament.
1.9 km · university in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 05Perth Arena
Perth Arena is an entertainment and sporting arena in the city centre of Perth, Western Australia, used mostly for basketball games. It is located on Wellington Street near the site of the former Perth Entertainment Centre, and was officially opened on 10 November 2012.
2.5 km · stadium in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 06Perth Zoo
Perth Zoo is a 17-hectare zoological park in South Perth, Western Australia. The zoo first opened in 1898, and by 2011 housed 1258 animals of 164 species and an extensive botanical collection.
3 km · zoo in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 07Art Gallery of Western Australia
The Art Gallery of Western Australia is a public art gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia and is supported and managed by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries of the Government of Western Australia.
1.6 km · art gallery in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 08St Mary's Cathedral, Perth
St Mary's Cathedral, Perth, officially the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Australian cathedral. It is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth and seat of its archbishop, currently Timothy Costelloe.
900 m · cathedral in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 09State Library of Western Australia
The State Library of Western Australia is a research, education, reference and public lending library located in the Perth Cultural Centre in Perth, Western Australia. It is a portfolio agency of the Western Australia Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, and facilitated by the Library Board of Western Australia.
1.7 km · state library in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 10Perth Mosque
Perth Mosque, located in Perth, Western Australia is the oldest mosque in Perth and the second oldest purpose-built mosque in Australia.
2 km · mosque in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to East Perth
- Airports
- Perth (PER), 9 km
- Stations
- Perth railway station, 1.6 km · East Perth railway station, 1.5 km · Leederville railway station, 3.9 km
- Port Hedland → East Perth1323 km · quickest by air, 5h 23m · A$260–400
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for East Perth
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 East Perth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA ferry makes the short hop across the Swan River, running between Barrack St Jetty on the City bank and Mends St Jetty in South Perth.
- Get inFerries run every 15 min weekdays and 30 min on weekends.
From Wikivoyage: Perth/City, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to East Perth
East Perth is 1 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Perthcapital city of Western Australia, Australia1.5 km
- South Perthsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3 km
- Northbridgesuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.6 km
- Victoria Parksuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.3 km
- Burswoodsuburb of Perth, Western Australia1.9 km
- Rivervalesuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.9 km