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Manurewa

Manurewa is a suburb in South Auckland, New Zealand, located 6 km (3.7 mi) south of Manukau Central, and 26 km (16 mi) southeast of the Auckland City Centre.

Manurewa
Manurewa · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Manurewa is a suburb in South Auckland, New Zealand, located 6 km (3.7 mi) south of Manukau Central, and 26 km (16 mi) southeast of the Auckland City Centre. It is home to the Auckland Botanic Gardens, which receives over a million visitors a year. Manurewa has a high proportion of non-European ethnicities, making it one of the most multi-cultural suburbs in New Zealand. Employment for many is at the many companies of nearby Wiri, Papakura, and at the steel mill at Glenbrook.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Manurewa

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.

  1. 01
    Auckland Botanic Gardens

    Auckland Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden in the New Zealand city of Auckland. It is located in the suburb of Manurewa, in the Manurewa Local Board Area.

    1.4 km · botanic garden owned by the Auckland Council · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rainbow's End

    Rainbow's End is a theme park in Manukau, Auckland, New Zealand. Rainbow's End has an area of 9.3 hectares and includes the main theme park and also Kidz Kingdom, a family entertainment centre for children 8 years and under.

    3.5 km · amusement park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Auckland New Zealand Temple

    The Auckland New Zealand Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the suburb of Goodwood Heights outside Manukau Central in Auckland, New Zealand. The intent to build the temple was announced on October 7, 2018, by church president Russell M. Nelson, during general conference.

    3.5 km · LDS Church temple in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Baitul Muqeet Mosque

    This is an incomplete list of mosques in Oceania.

    2.5 km · mosque in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Takanini Gurdwara

    The Takanini Gurdwara also referred to as Gurdwara Sri Kalgidhar Sahib, is the largest Sikh gurdwara in New Zealand.

    2.4 km · The largest Sikh gurdwara in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Nathan Homestead

    Nathan Homestead is a historic site located in Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand. Developed from the remnants of the Nathan family farm, the Homestead and its surrounding park spans 3.7 hectares and features community buildings, playgrounds, landscaped gardens, a totara-kahikatea forest, and the aforementioned Nathan Homestead, a brick mansion built in 1925 for the Nathan Family.

    1 km · historic house in Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Westfield Manukau

    Westfield Manukau is a major shopping centre located in Manukau, a southern district of Auckland, New Zealand. Built in 1972, it was originally named Manukau City Centre.

    3.9 km · shopping center in Manukau, New Zealand · 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 Manurewa

Airports
Auckland (AKL), 10 km
Stations
Manurewa railway station, 500 m · Manukau railway station, 3.8 km · Takaanini railway station, 2.6 km · Te Mahia railway station, 1.1 km · Manukau bus station, 3.8 km
  • Wellington → Manurewa
    475 km · quickest by air, 4h · NZ$160–240
  • Christchurch → Manurewa
    749 km · quickest by air, 4h 36m · NZ$200–310
  • Queenstown → Manurewa
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Manurewa

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 Manurewa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFullers run a ferry approximately once every two hours from Central Auckland to Half Moon Bay.
  • Go nextFerries leave from Half Moon Bay for Hauraki Gulf islands and central Auckland.

From Wikivoyage: Auckland/South Auckland, 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
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,032 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,436 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,444 km
  4. 04
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,186 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,351 km

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

Around it

Next door to Manurewa

Manurewa is 4 km from Manukau City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.