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Malvern East

Malvern East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km south-east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Stonnington local government area.

Malvern East
Malvern East · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Malvern East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km south-east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Stonnington local government area. Malvern East recorded a population of 22,296 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Malvern East

8 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
    Waverley Park

    Waverley Park is an Australian rules football oval and former large-scale stadium located in the south-east Melbourne suburb of Mulgrave. The first venue to be designed and built specifically for Australian rules football, it served as a neutral stadium for Victorian-based Victorian Football League/Australian Football League clubs upon its opening in 1970.

    800 m · park in Mulgrave, Victoria · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Monash University Museum of Art

    The Monash University Museum of Art, formerly the Monash University Gallery, is a contemporary art museum on Monash University's Caulfield campus on Dandenong Road, Melbourne, Australia.

    1.2 km · art museum in Monash University’s Caulfield campus · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.1 km · church in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Chadstone Shopping Centre

    Chadstone Shopping Centre is a major shopping centre in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Malvern East. It is the largest shopping centre in Australia.

    2.2 km · super regional shopping centre located in the inner south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    1.4 km · campus of Monash University, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Glen Eira Town Hall

    Glen Eira Town Hall, known originally as Caulfield Town Hall, is located in Caulfield, Victoria, Australia. The hall was finished in 1890 and is a designated historic building with the Heritage Council of Victoria.

    3.3 km · historic town hall in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Sacred Heart Girls' School

    The Sacred Heart Girls' College building is a modern architecture building designed by Frederick Romberg that is used as an educational facility by Sacred Heart Girls' College. The building is positioned on the corner of Warrigal Road and Kangaroo Road, Oakleigh in one of Melbourne's eastern suburbs, in Victoria, Australia.

    3.5 km · postmodern building in Melbourne, Australia designed by architect Frederick Romberg and completed in 1954 · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Stockland Tooronga

    Tooronga Village is a residential, office and retail centre in the suburb of Glen Iris in Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria. It formerly referred solely to a shopping centre, which temporarily closed in March 2008.

    3.8 km · shopping mall 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Como House

    Gardens: Mon-Sat 9AM–5PM, Sun 10AM–5PM; House only on pre-booked tours on Sat Sun.

From Wikivoyage: Malvern East, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Fawkner Park

    Soccer, tennis, softball, and cricket in the summer.

From Wikivoyage: Malvern East, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Bacash

    It is located next to the Botanical Gardens and offers excellent service and a fine wine list.

  2. 02
    Hoo Haa

    Although hard to find, Hoo Haa makes up for it by showcasing a whimsical and eclectic decor that caters favourably to its clientele of swish and swank 20- and 30-somethings.

  3. 03
    Jacks House
  4. 04
    Fortunes Asian Cuisine

    Chinese and Malaysian cuisine with mostly Westernised options.

  5. 05
    Warung Coffee

    Great coffee and Indonesian-Australian fusion lunches.

From Wikivoyage: Malvern East, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Malvern East

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 30 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 55 km
Stations
Malvern, 3 km · Glenhuntly, 2.1 km · Oakleigh, 3.5 km · Alamein, 2 km · Burwood, 3.4 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Malvern East
    5 km · quickest by road, 15 min · A$0.5–1
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Malvern East
    590 km · quickest by air, 5h 8m · A$220–330
  • Adelaide → Malvern East
    663 km · quickest by air, 5h 25m · A$240–350
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Malvern 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 Malvern 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

    631 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,601 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,047 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,223 km

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

Around it

Next door to Malvern East

Malvern East is 11 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Caulfieldsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3 km
  • Ashburtonsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.4 km
  • Murrumbeenasuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.5 km
  • Glen Irissuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.4 km
  • Ashwoodsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia4 km
  • Caulfield Northsuburb of Melbourne, Australia3.1 km