Waiake
Waiake is one of the northernmost suburbs of the North Shore, in Auckland, New Zealand.
Waiake is one of the northernmost suburbs of the North Shore, in Auckland, New Zealand. It is located in the East Coast Bays between the suburbs of Browns Bay to the south and Torbay to the north. It has a beach, which looks out to the Tor, a presque-isle at the north end of the beach that becomes an island at high tide. Waiake is under the local governance of the Auckland Council.
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Worth seeing in and around Waiake
2 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.
- 01Long Bay Regional Park
Long Bay Regional Park is a regional park in Long Bay located in Auckland, New Zealand. It is located in the Hibiscus and Bays in the northern part of the city and is operated by Auckland Council.
3.4 km · park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 02City Impact Church New Zealand
City Impact Church is a pentecostal church based in Auckland, New Zealand. It operates a network of satellite churches across New Zealand, and in Canada, India, Mexico, the Philippines, and Tonga.
3 km · church building in New Zealand · Wikipedia
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Getting to Waiake
- Airports
- Auckland (AKL), 34 km
- Wellington → Waiake510 km · quickest by air, 5h 14m · NZ$180–280
- Christchurch → Waiake17 km · quickest by road, 48 min · NZ$3–4
- Queenstown → WaiakeTrain, 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 Waiake
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 Waiake. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inInformation at Auckland Transport (AT) public transport website A short ferry ride away from downtown Auckland.
From Wikivoyage: Auckland/North Shore (New Zealand), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Waiake
Waiake is 16 km from Auckland, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Rothesay Baysuburb of Auckland, New Zealand1.8 km
- Browns Baysuburb of Auckland, New Zealand1.2 km
- Torbaysuburb of Auckland, New Zealand1.3 km
- Long Baysuburb of Auckland, New Zealand2.5 km
- Murrays Baysuburb of Auckland, New Zealand2.7 km
- Pinehillsuburb of Auckland, New Zealand3.4 km