Playa Vista, Los Angeles
Playa Vista is a neighborhood in the Westside area of Los Angeles, California, United States.

Playa Vista is a neighborhood in the Westside area of Los Angeles, California, United States. The area was the headquarters of Hughes Aircraft Company from 1941 to 1985 and the site of the construction of the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" aircraft. The area began development in 2002 as a planned community with residential, commercial, and retail components. The community attracted businesses in technology, media and entertainment and is part of Silicon Beach.
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Worth seeing in and around Playa Vista, Los Angeles
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.
- 01Loyola Marymount University
Loyola Marymount University is a private Jesuit and Marymount research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. LMU enrolls over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, making it the largest Catholic university on the West Coast of the United States.
1 km · Jesuit university in Los Angeles, California, USA · Wikipedia - 02Holy Cross Cemetery
Holy Cross Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery and funeral home at 5835 West Slauson Avenue in Culver City, California, operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese. It is partially in the Culver City city limits.
2.9 km · cemetery in Culver City, California, United States · Wikipedia - 03Hillside Memorial Park
Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Culver City, California, United States. Many Jews from the entertainment industry are buried there.
2.3 km · Jewish cemetery in Culver City, California, United States · Wikipedia - 04Information Sciences Institute
The USC Information Sciences Institute is a research institute affiliated with the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. It is located in Marina del Rey, California, United States.
2.3 km · University of Southern California research institute · Wikipedia - 05King Fahad Mosque
The King Fahad Mosque is a mosque located in Culver City, California in Los Angeles County, US. The mosque has a capacity of 2,000 worshippers and a 72-foot high minaret. The complex on about 77,500 square feet of land contains other facilities including a lecture and meeting hall and classrooms.
3.7 km · mosque in Culver City, California · Wikipedia - 06Wende Museum
The Wende is an art museum, archive, and cultural center in Culver City, California. It focuses on the history and material culture of dissident movements, civil society, and human rights advocacy in the late 20th century.
3.3 km · Museum in Culver City, California · Wikipedia - 07Gersten Pavilion
The Gersten Pavilion is a 3,900-seat multi-purpose arena in Los Angeles, California. It is the home of the Loyola Marymount University Lions.
1.2 km · multi-purpose arena in the American metropolis of Los Angeles · Wikipedia - 08West Los Angeles College
West Los Angeles College is a public community college in Culver City, Los Angeles County, California. It is part of the California Community Colleges System and the Los Angeles Community College District.
3.8 km · community college in California, United States · Wikipedia - 09Westfield Culver City
Westfield Culver City is a shopping mall in Culver City, California, owned by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield SE. The mall features JCPenney, Macy's, Best Buy, Target, and Old Navy. The mall features prominent specialty retailers such as Adidas, MAC Cosmetics, True Religion, Miniso, Uniqlo, Forever 21 and H&M, as well as restaurants, including a food court.
1.9 km · shopping mall in Culver City, California, USA · Wikipedia - 10Burton Chace Park
Burton Chace Park is the largest public park in Marina del Rey, California. It is named after Burton W. Chace, a former Mayor of Long Beach and Los Angeles County Supervisor.
2.9 km · park in Marina del Rey, California, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Playa Vista, Los Angeles
- Airports
- Los Angeles (LAX), 4 km · Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 25 km · Long Beach (LGB), 30 km
- Stations
- USAir Flight 1493, 3.3 km · Continental Airlines Flight 603, 3.4 km · Hughes Airport, 1.7 km · LAX City Bus Center, 3.8 km
- Santa Ana → Playa Vista, Los Angeles3656 km · quickest by air, 12h 51m · $770–1,160
- Ontario → Playa Vista, Los Angeles71 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · $7–9
- San Bernardino → Playa Vista, Los Angeles105 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · $10–13
- 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 Playa Vista, Los Angeles
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 Playa Vista, Los Angeles. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inVarious shared vans will also take visitors from the airport to local hotels, and taxis are prevalent at the airport and will cost $20-25.
- Get aroundThis water taxi is just $1 (one-way) for each boarding and is a convenient way to leave the car and visit several other areas in the Marina.
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Next door to Playa Vista, Los Angeles
Playa Vista, Los Angeles is 18 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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