Kew East
Kew East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km (5.0 mi) east from the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Boroondara local government area.

Kew East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km (5.0 mi) east from the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Boroondara local government area. Kew East recorded a population of 6,620 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Kew East
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.
- 01Swinburne University of Technology
The Swinburne University of Technology is a public research university in Melbourne, Australia. It is the modern descendant of the Eastern Suburbs Technical College established in 1908, renamed Swinburne Technical College in 1913 after its co-founders George and Ethel Swinburne.
3.1 km · university in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 02University of Divinity
The University of Divinity is an Australian collegiate university with a specialised focus in divinity and associated disciplines. It is constituted by twelve theological colleges from seven denominations and three schools.
2 km · collegiate university in Australia · Wikipedia - 03Yarra Bend Park
The Yarra Bend Park is a 260-hectare metropolitan park located in Kew and Fairfield, inner east suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Situated 4 kilometres northeast of the city centre of Melbourne, the park is the largest area of remnant natural bushland in inner Melbourne.
4 km · park in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Lyon Housemuseum
The Lyon Housemuseum is a hybrid residence and contemporary art museum located on Cotham Road, Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The Housemuseum displays the Lyon Collection of Australian contemporary art in a purpose designed building.
1.5 km · art gallery in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Greythorn Park
Greythorn Park is a park in the suburb of Balwyn North, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located in the eastern part of the suburb known as Greythorn, from which the park gets its name.
3.3 km · park in Balwyn North, Australia · Wikipedia - 06Macleay Park
Macleay Park is a multi-sports complex in the Melbourne suburb of Balwyn North. It hosts Australian rules football, cricket, soccer, baseball and netball matches.
1.7 km · park in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 07Darebin Creek Bridge
Darebin Creek Bridge is a bluestone masonry arch and concrete road bridge on Heidelberg road Alphington over Darebin Creek. It was built for Heidelberg Road Trust to a design of John C Climie CE and constructed by contractor O. H. Willison in 1864, to replace an earlier 1852 timber bridge which had fallen into a poor state of repair.
2.7 km · Bridge in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 08Fairfield Industrial Dog Object
The Fairfield Industrial Dog Object is a large sculpture in hardwood of a canine in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Fairfield, Victoria, Australia. It was part of the Darebin City Council's Public Art Program, and is located beside the Fairfield railway station.
4 km · sculpture by Ian Sinclair, Jackie Staude, David Davies and Alistair Knox · Wikipedia - 09Featherston House
Featherston House is in Ivanhoe, Victoria. It was designed by leading Australian architect Robin Boyd of Romberg & Boyd in 1967.
2.5 km · house in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 10Hawthorn Town Hall
The Hawthorn Arts Centre is a former civic building located in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Designed by architect John Beswicke in the Second Empire style, the hall was built from 1888 to 1890 and housed the council chambers for the City of Hawthorn.
3.4 km · arts building in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kew East
- Airports
- Melbourne (MEL), 24 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 58 km
- Stations
- Auburn, 3 km · Camberwell, 3.3 km · Darebin, 2.9 km · Glenferrie, 3.3 km · East Camberwell, 3.3 km
- Geelong/Melbourne → Kew East6 km · quickest by road, 19 min · A$1–1.5
- Hobart (Cambridge) → Kew East598 km · quickest by air, 4h 54m · A$210–310
- Adelaide → Kew East660 km · quickest by air, 5h 11m · A$220–330
- 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 Kew East
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 Kew East. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextMelbourne is fairly centrally located on the coast of Victoria, and there are many natural and man-made attractions that make for a nice day trip.
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Next door to Kew East
Kew East is 8 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kewsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.1 km
- Balwyn Northsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.6 km
- Canterburysuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.6 km
- Alphingtonsuburb of Melbourne, Australia2.6 km
- Hawthornsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.8 km
- Balwynsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.3 km