Upper Riccarton
Worth seeing in and around Upper Riccarton
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.
- 01
- 02
- 03
- 04Rugby League Park
Separate stadium also in Christchurch, and temporary home to the Crusaders of Super Rugby
3.2 km · Wikipedia - 05
- 06Air Force Museum of New Zealand
Military and aviation museum in Christchurch, New Zealand
2.8 km · Wikipedia - 07
- 08
- 09Riccarton Park Racecourse
Thoroughbred horse racecourse for the Christchurch, New Zealand
2.1 km · Wikipedia - 10
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.
Getting to Upper Riccarton
- Airports
- Christchurch (CHC), 5 km
- Stations
- Wigram Aerodrome, 2.9 km
- Wellington → Upper Riccarton308 km · quickest by air, 3h 39m · NZ$130–200
- Queenstown → Upper RiccartonTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Auckland → Upper Riccarton766 km · quickest by air, 4h 58m · NZ$210–320
- 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 Upper Riccarton
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 Upper Riccarton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis scenic train journey can be done as a day trip.
- Get inAt Picton the Coastal Pacific connects with the Cook Strait ferries from Wellington in the North Island.
- Get inThe train departs Christchurch at 7AM and arrives in Picton at 1:15PM, connecting with the 2PM ferry to Wellington.
- Get inThe 9AM ferry from Wellington connects with the train departing Picton at 2:15PM and arriving in Christchurch at 8:30PM.
- Get aroundServices cover the whole city and areas of interest for a visitor that lie outside the central city, such as Sumner and New Brighton beaches, Lyttelton, and the Gondola.
From Wikivoyage: Christchurch, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Upper Riccarton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Upper Riccarton
Upper Riccarton is 5 km from Christchurch, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.