New Plymouth

Worth seeing in and around New Plymouth

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
   Yarrow Stadium

   New Zealand rugby stadium

   1.6 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Pukekura Park

   Botanic garden and park in New Plymouth, New Zealand

   500 m · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre

   Art museum in New Plymouth, New Zealand

   1.5 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Wind Wand

   Sculpture by Len Lye

   1.5 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Puke Ariki

   Museum, library and information centre in New Plymouth, New Zealand

   1.5 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Te Henui Cemetery

   Cemetery in New Plymouth, New Zealand

   1.3 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Holy Trinity Church

   Heritage church building in New Plymouth, New Zealand

   2.3 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Richmond Cottage

   New Zealand heritage building

   1.4 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Tūpare

   Public garden in Taranaki, New Zealand

   3.3 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Bates House

    Heritage house in New Plymouth, New Zealand

    1 km · 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.

Getting to New Plymouth

Airports

Auckland (AKL), 237 km · Wellington (WLG), 259 km

Stations

Port Taranaki, 4.7 km

• Auckland → New Plymouth

  254 km · quickest by road, 6h · NZ$50–70
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• Wellington → New Plymouth

  254 km · quickest by road, 6h 4m · NZ$49–65
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• Christchurch → New Plymouth

  511 km · quickest by road, 16h 29m · NZ$110–150
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No local-transport research exists yet for New Plymouth

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

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