Opawa
Opawa is an inner residential suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.
Opawa is an inner residential suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is located approximately 3.5 kilometres south-east of the city centre. Prior to European settlement, much of the area consisted of marshlands and mixed-use vegetation. By the 1850s, the area was sparsely populated by settlers and became a dairying locality, with many of the early settlers being farmers and people of English descent. Opawa had little development in its early years as it transitioned into a residential suburb.
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Worth seeing in and around Opawa
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.
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- 08Kate Sheppard National Memorial
Memorial to the women's suffrage campaign, located in Christchurch, New Zealand
3.3 km · Wikipedia - 09
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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 Opawa
- Airports
- Christchurch (CHC), 13 km
- Stations
- Christchurch railway station, 2.1 km
- Wellington → Opawa306 km · quickest by air, 4h · NZ$140–220
- Queenstown → OpawaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Auckland → Opawa767 km · quickest by air, 5h 19m · NZ$220–340
- 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 Opawa
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 Opawa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis scenic train journey can be done as a day trip.
- Get inAt Picton the Coastal Pacific connects with the Cook Strait ferries from Wellington in the North Island.
- Get inThe train departs Christchurch at 7AM and arrives in Picton at 1:15PM, connecting with the 2PM ferry to Wellington.
- Get inThe 9AM ferry from Wellington connects with the train departing Picton at 2:15PM and arriving in Christchurch at 8:30PM.
- Get aroundServices cover the whole city and areas of interest for a visitor that lie outside the central city, such as Sumner and New Brighton beaches, Lyttelton, and the Gondola.
From Wikivoyage: Christchurch, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Opawa
Opawa is 3 km from Christchurch, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Christchurchlargest city in the South Island of New Zealand3.1 km
- Avonsidesuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3.4 km
- Cashmeresuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3.4 km
- Walthamsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand1.2 km
- Christchurch Central Citysuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3.1 km
- Addingtonsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3.9 km