Kotara
Kotara is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 9 kilometres (6 mi) from Newcastle's central business district.
Kotara is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 9 kilometres (6 mi) from Newcastle's central business district. It is split between the City of Newcastle and City of Lake Macquarie local government areas. Kotara is known as one of Newcastle's largest retail destinations.
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Worth seeing in and around Kotara
7 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.
- 01Cardiff
Cardiff is a suburb in the Lake Macquarie LGA of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 17 kilometres west-southwest of Newcastle.
3 km · suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Charlestown
Charlestown is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, and the largest suburb in Lake Macquarie and in the Greater Newcastle area. It is approximately 10 kilometres west-south-west of the central business district of Newcastle.
3.7 km · suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 03Garden Suburb
Garden Suburb is a small semi-rural suburb in the City of Lake Macquarie local government area in the Greater Newcastle area in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 2 kilometres east of Cardiff.
1.7 km · suburb of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Westfield Kotara
Westfield Kotara is a large shopping centre in the Newcastle suburb of Kotara in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. Westfield Kotara is one of the two Westfield branded shopping centres in New South Wales that is not located within the Greater Sydney area, with Westfield Tuggerah being located on the Central Coast.
2.7 km · Shopping mall in Kotara, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Wallsend Railway Goods Shed
Wallsend Railway Goods Shed is a heritage-listed former goods shed at 76 Cowper Street, Wallsend, City of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as Wallsend Locomotive Shed.
3.5 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 06Hunter Medical Research Institute
The Hunter Medical Research Institute is a medical research institute located in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1998, the research institute is a partnership between the University of Newcastle, Hunter New England Local Health District, and the community.
1.4 km · Australian medical research institute · Wikipedia - 07Kahibah Public School
Kahibah Public School is a government-funded co-educational primary day school, located in Kahibah, a suburb of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1938 in the Kahibah Memorial Hall, it moved to its current location in 1954.
4 km · school in Lake Macquarie LGA, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kotara
- Airports
- Newcastle (NTL), 21 km · Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 122 km
- Stations
- Adamstown railway station, 3.3 km · Cardiff railway station, 2.3 km · Kotara railway station, 1.6 km
- Sydney (Mascot) → Kotara119 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · A$20–26
- Gold Coast → Kotara574 km · quickest by air, 5h 25m · A$240–350
- Toowoomba → Kotara599 km · quickest by air, 5h 13m · A$230–350
- 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 Kotara
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 Kotara. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThere is a single ferry service between and , costing $2.40 each way, also using Opal cards.
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Next door to Kotara
Kotara is 9 km from Newcastle, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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