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Gardênia Azul

Gardênia Azul is a neighborhood in the Southwest Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The place

Gardênia Azul is a neighborhood in the Southwest Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gardênia Azul

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
    Terra Encantada

    Terra Encantada was an amusement park in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, It operated from 1998 to 2010. The park, which spanned over an area of 200 square kilometers, was dedicated to the celebration of Brazilian culture and its diverse origins, including indigenous, African, and European influences.

    3.2 km · amusement park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · 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 Gardênia Azul

Airports
Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 19 km · Santos Dumont (SDU), 20 km
Stations
Jacarepaguá Airport, 3.8 km
  • São Paulo → Gardênia Azul
    342 km · quickest by air, 5h 5m · R$380–590
  • Belo Horizonte → Gardênia Azul
    343 km · quickest by air, 5h 37m · R$390–600
  • Campinas → Gardênia Azul
    380 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · R$370–570
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Gardênia Azul

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in]] Ferries (barcas) connect neighbouring Niterói to Rio de Janeiro and arrive at Praça XV (see down), in the city centre.
  • Get aroundAmong the public transportation modes, there is subway, heavy rail, light rail, bus rapid transit, local buses, microbuses, cable cars and ferry boats.
  • Get aroundFerry boats depart from Santa Teresa Tram, Centro Corcovado Rack Railway, Zona Sul Sugarloaf Cable Car (Zona Sul) Buses are still the cheapest and most convenient way to get around the South Zone (Zona Sul) of the city due to the high number and frequency of lines running through the area.
  • Get aroundExcept for minibuses, buses now have two doors: passengers get in through the front door and get off through the back (it was otherwise until 2001–2002).
  • Get aroundBuses 511 (Ataulfo de Paiva) and 512 (Bartholomeu Mitre) are also popular as they take you to Urca for the station to take the cable car up the Sugarloaf mountain.

From Wikivoyage: Rio de Janeiro, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Ilha GrandeBR

    10 ways of moving, 20 sources

    87 km
  2. 02
    Morro de São Paulo and Ilha de TinharéBR

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,163 km
  3. 03
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    2,439 km
  4. 04
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,542 km
  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    2,715 km

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

Around it

Next door to Gardênia Azul

Gardênia Azul is 5 km from Barra da Tijuca, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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