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

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.
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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.
- 01Cathedral 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 - 02Pala 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 - 03American 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 - 04Tradewinds 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
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Getting to Tāfuna
- Airports
- Pago Pago (PPG), 1 km · Faleolo (APW), 150 km
- Stations
- Pago Pago International Airport, 1 km
- Apia → Tāfuna126 km · quickest by ferry, 9h 42m · $51–147
- Vava'u Island → Tāfuna591 km · quickest by air, 5h 16m · $210–320
- Wallis Island → TāfunaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- 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 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.
- 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.
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- Vaitogivillage in American Samoa2.1 km
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