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Kennedys Bush

Kennedys Bush is a south-western suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.

Kennedys Bush
Kennedys Bush · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kennedys Bush is a south-western suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kennedys Bush

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
    Christchurch Adventure Park

    Christchurch Adventure Park is an adventure park in the Port Hills of Christchurch, New Zealand. Built by the Canadian company Select Evolution, it had its opening function on 16 December 2016.

    3.8 km · mountain biking park in Christchurch, New Zealand · 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 Kennedys Bush

Airports
Christchurch (CHC), 13 km
  • Wellington → Kennedys Bush
    314 km · quickest by air, 4h 1m · NZ$140–220
  • Queenstown → Kennedys Bush
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Auckland → Kennedys Bush
    774 km · quickest by air, 5h 20m · NZ$220–340
  • 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 Kennedys Bush

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThis scenic train journey can be done as a day trip.
  • Get inAt Picton the Coastal Pacific connects with the Cook Strait ferries from Wellington in the North Island.
  • Get inThe train departs Christchurch at 7AM and arrives in Picton at 1:15PM, connecting with the 2PM ferry to Wellington.
  • Get inThe 9AM ferry from Wellington connects with the train departing Picton at 2:15PM and arriving in Christchurch at 8:30PM.
  • Get aroundServices cover the whole city and areas of interest for a visitor that lie outside the central city, such as Sumner and New Brighton beaches, Lyttelton, and the Gondola.

From Wikivoyage: Christchurch, 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
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    390 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,035 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,700 km
  4. 04
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,121 km
  5. 05
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,770 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kennedys Bush

Kennedys Bush is 9 km from Christchurch, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Halswellsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand2.2 km
  • Westmorlandsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3 km
  • Oaklandssuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3.5 km
  • Cracroftsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3.3 km
  • Lansdownelocality in Christchurch City, Canterbury Region, New Zealand1.6 km