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Kooyong

Kooyong is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington local government area.

Kooyong
Kooyong · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kooyong is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington local government area. Kooyong recorded a population of 842 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kooyong

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.

    2.3 km · university in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Our Lady of Victories Basilica

    Our Lady of Victories Basilica is a Roman Catholic church located in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell. Romanesque Revival in style, it was designed by architect Augustus Andrew Fritsch and was completed in 1918.

    2.1 km · church building in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Ignatius' Church of Richmond

    St Ignatius' Church, Richmond is a Roman Catholic church located in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, Victoria, Australia. It is one of the largest churches in Melbourne outside of the central business district.

    3.9 km · church building in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Toorak House

    Toorak House is a mansion located in Melbourne, Australia built in 1849 by well-known Melbourne merchant James Jackson. It is notable for its use as Melbourne's first Government House and having inspired the name for the suburb of Toorak.

    1.5 km · mansion in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Stonington mansion

    Stonington is a private residence and former Australian Government House located in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern, at 336 Glenferrie Road. The house was built for John Wagner, a partner in Cobb and Co coaches.

    800 m · notable house in that city · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Como House

    Como House is a historical house, with associated gardens in the City of Stonnington, Victoria, Australia. It was constructed in 1847 for Sir Edward Eyre Williams and now serves as a tourist attraction under the custodianship of the National Trust of Australia.

    2.8 km · historic house in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Malvern Presbyterian Church, Melbourne

    Malvern Presbyterian Church is located in Victoria, Australia. Opened in 1886, it was the first Presbyterian Church to be founded in the City of Malvern and is now within Stonnington, a metropolitan area of Melbourne.

    2.3 km · church in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Monash University, Caulfield campus

    Monash University, Caulfield campus is a campus of Monash University located in Caulfield East, which is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. The campus comprises 13,400 students of which 52.8% are female and 57.1% of students are enrolled in undergraduate courses.

    4 km · campus of Monash University, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    3.9 km · art gallery in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Bartholomew's Church, Burnley

    St Bartholomew's Church, Burnley, is the Anglican parish church of the small suburb of Burnley, historically considered part of Richmond, in inner-suburban Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Known colloquially as "St Bart's", the parish is in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne and is well known as belonging to the Anglo-Catholic or High Church tradition.

    3.2 km · church in Victoria, 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 Kooyong

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 26 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 54 km
Stations
Caulfield, 4 km · Malvern, 2.8 km · South Yarra, 3.8 km · Auburn, 2.4 km · Burnley, 3 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Kooyong
    2 km · quickest by road, 8 min · A$0.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Kooyong
    582 km · quickest by air, 5h 29m · A$230–340
  • Adelaide → Kooyong
    668 km · quickest by air, 5h 46m · A$240–360
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kooyong

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 Kooyong. 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

    636 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

    1,599 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,050 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,218 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kooyong

Kooyong is 7 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Richmondsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.9 km
  • Tooraksuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1.5 km
  • Camberwellsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.3 km
  • Hawthornsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1.8 km
  • Glen Irissuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.6 km
  • Prahransuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.4 km