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Playa Vista, Los Angeles

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

Playa Vista, Los Angeles
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Loyola 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
  2. 02
    Holy 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
  3. 03
    Hillside 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
  4. 04
    Information 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
  5. 05
    King 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
  6. 06
    Wende 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
  7. 07
    Gersten 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
  8. 08
    West 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
  9. 09
    Westfield 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
  10. 10
    Burton 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

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 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 Angeles
    3656 km · quickest by air, 12h 51m · $770–1,160
  • Ontario → Playa Vista, Los Angeles
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · $7–9
  • San Bernardino → Playa Vista, Los Angeles
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · $10–13
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Marina del Rey, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,613 km
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  3. 03
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,749 km
  4. 04
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    1,765 km
  5. 05
    Courtenay, Comox and the Comox ValleyCA

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,827 km

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

Around it

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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