Tawa
Worth seeing in and around Tawa
One place 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.
- 01Rangituhi / Colonial Knob
Rangituhi / Colonial Knob is a large hill or mountain southwest of Porirua city and west of the northern Wellington suburb of Tawa. The peak's summit stands at 468 m.
2.5 km · hill in New Zealand · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tawa
- Airports
- Wellington (WLG), 17 km
- Stations
- Linden railway station, 1.4 km · Takapu Road railway station, 1.7 km · Tawa railway station, 200 m · Kenepuru railway station, 2.5 km · Porirua railway station, 3.9 km
- Christchurch → Tawa319 km · quickest by air, 4h 28m · NZ$160–250
- Auckland → Tawa481 km · quickest by air, 5h 11m · NZ$200–300
- Queenstown → TawaTrain, 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 Tawa
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 Tawa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are regular ferries between Wellington and Picton in the South Island operated by Interislander and Bluebridge, connecting with buses and the train to Christchurch.
- Get inHitchhiking from central Wellington is difficult as most traffic stays within the metropolitan area, and it is illegal to hitchhike on the motorway until the Hutt Valley (about 15 km or 9 mi northeast of Wellington) or Ōtaki (about 65 km or 40 mi north).
- Get inIf you are intending to hitchhike, you are best to catch a train to Waikanae or Upper Hutt and walk to the main highways to catch a lift from there (the best spot for Upper Hutt hitchhikers is at the Caltex petrol station about a 3 km walk north from the railway station along Fergusson Drive).
- Get aroundWellington has an extensive and well-patronised public transport network, with buses, trains and ferries serving the city and beyond extending into the Greater Wellington region.
- Get aroundThe Kelburn cable car is a Wellington icon.
From Wikivoyage: Wellington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Tawa
Tawa is 14 km from Wellington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Takapu Valleysuburb of Wellington, New Zealand2.6 km
- Elsdonsuburb of Porirua, New Zealand3.8 km
- Grenada Northsuburb in Wellington City, New Zealand2.8 km
- Lindensuburb of Tawa, New Zealand1.6 km
- Kenepurusuburb of Porirua, New Zealand2.2 km
- Redwoodsuburb of Tawa, New Zealand800 m