--- title: "Tarawa – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Tarawa, Kiribati: capital. Nearby: Bairiki National Stadium, Sacred Heart Cathedral. Every way there from the planner, and what we have not yet researched." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/south-tarawa" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/south-tarawa.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Japanese_shore_battery_from_WW2%2C_on_Tarawa_-_190717-M-ZY556-064.jpg/1920px-Japanese_shore_battery_from_WW2%2C_on_Tarawa_-_190717-M-ZY556-064.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Capital · Kiribati · Gilbert Islands # Tarawa ![Tarawa](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Japanese_shore_battery_from_WW2%2C_on_Tarawa_-_190717-M-ZY556-064.jpg/1920px-Japanese_shore_battery_from_WW2%2C_on_Tarawa_-_190717-M-ZY556-064.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Tarawa · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Tarawa 2 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. Bairiki National Stadium Stadium 200 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairiki_National_Stadium) 2. Sacred Heart Cathedral Cathedral in South Tarawa, Kiribati 3.4 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Heart_Cathedral,_Kiribati) 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 Tarawa **Airports:** Bonriki (TRW), 20 km\ - Majuro Atoll → Tarawa 665 km · quickest by air, 5h 38m · $160–260 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/majuro-atoll-to-tarawa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Majuro+Atoll&to=Tarawa) - Okat → Tarawa Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/okat-to-tarawa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Okat&to=Tarawa) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Tarawa) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Tarawa 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 Tarawa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Captains usually accept hitchhikers for a small fee. From [Wikivoyage: Tarawa](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tarawa), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kgari) AU 8 ways of moving, 31 sources 3,643 km 2. [Aitutaki](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aitutaki) CK 8 ways of moving, 30 sources 3,728 km 3. [Milford Sound / Piopiotahi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/milford-sound) NZ 8 ways of moving, 32 sources 5,140 km 4. [Siargao](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/siargao) PH 10 ways of moving, 33 sources 5,273 km 5. [Leyte Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leyte) PH 11 ways of moving, 20 sources 5,417 km If you know how people move in Tarawa – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Csouth-tarawa&title=Tarawa&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fsouth-tarawa), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Tarawa - [Teaoraereke](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/teaoraereke) small city in Kiribati 2.6 km - [Nanikai Village](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nanikai-village) islet and settlement in Tarawa, Kiribati 2.3 km [The place page for Tarawa](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/south-tarawa) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Kiribati](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-KI) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/south-tarawa, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt