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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
Kew East · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Swinburne 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
  2. 02
    University 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
  3. 03
    Yarra 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
  4. 04
    Lyon 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
  5. 05
    Greythorn 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
  6. 06
    Macleay 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
  7. 07
    Darebin 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
  8. 08
    Fairfield 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
  9. 09
    Featherston 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
  10. 10
    Hawthorn 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

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 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 East
    6 km · quickest by road, 19 min · A$1–1.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Kew East
    598 km · quickest by air, 4h 54m · A$210–310
  • Adelaide → Kew East
    660 km · quickest by air, 5h 11m · A$220–330
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Melbourne, 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
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    640 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    731 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,594 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,051 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,216 km

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Around it

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