Wadestown
Wadestown is a northern suburb of Wellington, located about 2–3 km (1.2–1.9 mi) by road from the Wellington central business district and the New Zealand Parliament Buildings.
Wadestown is a northern suburb of Wellington, located about 2–3 km (1.2–1.9 mi) by road from the Wellington central business district and the New Zealand Parliament Buildings.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Wadestown
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.
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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 Wadestown
- Airports
- Wellington (WLG), 8 km
- Stations
- Wellington Airport, 8.1 km · Wellington Railway Station, 2 km · Wellington Harbour, 5.5 km
- Christchurch → Wadestown307 km · quickest by air, 4h · NZ$140–220
- Auckland → Wadestown491 km · quickest by air, 4h 43m · NZ$180–270
- Queenstown → WadestownTrain, 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 Wadestown
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 Wadestown. 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 Wadestown
Wadestown is 3 km from Wellington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Wellingtoncapital city of New Zealand; urban area of the cities of Wellington, Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, and Porirua3 km
- Petonesuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand9.6 km
- Oriental Baysuburb of Wellington, New Zealand3.7 km
- Khandallahsuburb of Wellington, New Zealand2.2 km
- Mākaralocality in Wellington, New Zealand5.8 km
- Brooklynsuburb of Wellington City, New Zealand5 km