Johnsonville
Worth seeing in and around Johnsonville
3 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.
- 01Mount Kaukau
Mount Kaukau is a large hill in the northern suburbs of Wellington, New Zealand near Johnsonville, Khandallah and Ngaio. The summit is 445 m above sea level and is the most visible high point in the Wellington landscape further accentuated by Wellington's main television transmitter mast, which stands 122 m from the summit.
2.4 km · mountain in New Zealand · Wikipedia - 02Chew Cottage
Chew Cottage is an historic building in Wellington, New Zealand. The house, originally named "Millwood", was built in 1865 for John and Ester Chew.
3.9 km · historic house in Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 03Daisy Hill Farm House
Daisy Hill Farm House is a historic building in Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand. The house was built in about 1860 for Robert Bould, a pioneer farmer.
800 m · historic building · Wikipedia
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Getting to Johnsonville
- Airports
- Wellington (WLG), 12 km
- Stations
- Simla Crescent railway station, 3.2 km · Khandallah railway station, 2.6 km · Awarua Street railway station, 3.7 km · Box Hill railway station, 3 km · Johnsonville railway station, 300 m
- Christchurch → Johnsonville313 km · quickest by air, 4h 12m · NZ$150–230
- Auckland → Johnsonville486 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · NZ$190–290
- Queenstown → JohnsonvilleTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- 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 Johnsonville
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 Johnsonville. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are regular ferries between Wellington and Picton in the South Island operated by Interislander and Bluebridge, connecting with buses and the train to Christchurch.
- Get inHitchhiking from central Wellington is difficult as most traffic stays within the metropolitan area, and it is illegal to hitchhike on the motorway until the Hutt Valley (about 15 km or 9 mi northeast of Wellington) or Ōtaki (about 65 km or 40 mi north).
- Get inIf you are intending to hitchhike, you are best to catch a train to Waikanae or Upper Hutt and walk to the main highways to catch a lift from there (the best spot for Upper Hutt hitchhikers is at the Caltex petrol station about a 3 km walk north from the railway station along Fergusson Drive).
- Get aroundWellington has an extensive and well-patronised public transport network, with buses, trains and ferries serving the city and beyond extending into the Greater Wellington region.
- Get aroundThe Kelburn cable car is a Wellington icon.
From Wikivoyage: Wellington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Johnsonville
Johnsonville is 8 km from Wellington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Khandallahsuburb of Wellington, New Zealand3 km
- Ohariusuburb of Wellington, New Zealand2.9 km
- Paparangisuburb of Wellington, New Zealand1.6 km
- Churton Parksuburb of Wellington, New Zealand1.5 km
- Glensidesuburb of Wellington, New Zealand1.9 km
- Newlandssuburb of Wellington, New Zealand1.4 km