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Tāfuna

Tafuna is a village in Tualauta County, Western District, American Samoa.

Tāfuna
Tāfuna · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tafuna is a village in Tualauta County, Western District, American Samoa. It is the most populous village in American Samoa, with a population of 7,988 according to the 2020 U.S. census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tāfuna

4 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
    Cathedral of the Holy Family in Pago Pago

    The Cathedral of the Holy Family is a late 20th-century church that serves as the Cathedral—together with the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph the Worker—of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Samoa–Pago Pago in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

    1.7 km · church in American Samoa, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Pala Lagoon

    Pala Lagoon is an indentation in the south coast of Tutuila Island in American Samoa. The villages of Nuʻuuli and Tafuna are located on its shore.

    2 km · lake in Eastern District, American Samoa · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    American Samoa Community College

    American Samoa Community College is a public land-grant community college in the village of Mapusaga, American Samoa. Only legal residents of American Samoa who have graduated from high school or obtained a General Equivalency Diploma are admitted to ASCC. It is American Samoa's only tertiary education institution.

    2.9 km · land-grant community college in Mapusaga, American Samoa · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tradewinds Hotel

    Tradewinds Hotel is a luxury hotel in Ottoville, American Samoa. The hotel has 104 guest rooms, 43 suites and 8 large suites.

    1.1 km · building in Ottoville · 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 Tāfuna

Airports
Pago Pago (PPG), 1 km · Faleolo (APW), 150 km
Stations
Pago Pago International Airport, 1 km
  • Apia → Tāfuna
    126 km · quickest by ferry, 9h 42m · $51–147
  • Vava'u Island → Tāfuna
    591 km · quickest by air, 5h 16m · $210–320
  • Wallis Island → Tāfuna
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Tāfuna

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you are joining a package tour, the tour company might be able to arrange this for an extra fee; check with them to be sure.
  • Get inThe Faleolo airport in nearby Samoa has wider international connections including Air New Zealand to Auckland in New Zealand, Fiji Airways to Honolulu USA and Nadi in Fiji, Samoa Airways to Maota in Samoa and Pago Pago in American Samoa and Tongatapu in Tonga.
  • Get aroundA weekly ferry service from Pago Pago to the Manu’a Islands is provided by government operated excursion boat.
  • Get aroundRegular small ferries also offer service to and from the island of Aunuʻu.

From Wikivoyage: American Samoa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,269 km
  2. 02
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    3,929 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    3,957 km
  4. 04
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    5,122 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    5,678 km

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

Around it

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  • Malaeimihuman settlement in American Samoa2.1 km
  • Mesepavillage in Western District, American Samoa, United States of America2.7 km