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Wainoni

Wainoni is one of the eastern suburbs of Christchurch.

Wainoni
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The place

Wainoni is one of the eastern suburbs of Christchurch. It is a lower socio-economic area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wainoni

8 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.

  1. 01
    New Brighton Pier

    There have been two New Brighton Piers in the Christchurch, New Zealand, suburb of New Brighton. The first pier, of wooden construction, opened on 18 January 1894 and was demolished on 12 October 1965.

    3.5 km · pier in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of the Good Shepherd

    The Church of the Good Shepherd was an Anglican church in Phillipstown, Christchurch, New Zealand. It was demolished following the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.

    3.7 km · church building in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Linwood Cemetery

    Linwood Cemetery is a cemetery located in Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand. It is the fifth oldest public cemetery in the city.

    1.6 km · cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Holy Trinity Avonside

    Holy Trinity Avonside was a heritage-listed Anglican church located in the Avonside Parish, Christchurch, New Zealand. It was registered as a "Historic Place – Category I" by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.

    2.9 km · church building in Canterbury Region, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Barbadoes Street Cemetery

    The Barbadoes Street Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was set up with three discrete areas for different denominations.

    3.8 km · cemetery in Christchurch · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Linwood House

    Linwood House was built as the homestead for Joseph Brittan, who, as surgeon, newspaper editor and provincial councillor, was one of the dominant figures in early Christchurch, New Zealand. The suburb of Linwood was named after Brittan's farm and homestead.

    2.7 km · New Zealand historic building · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Palms Shopping Centre

    The Palms Shopping Centre is a shopping mall located in the suburb of Shirley, Christchurch, situated 4 kilometres from the city's CBD. The anchor by Woolworths, Farmers, Reading Cinema, and Chemist Warehouse. Kmart closed its doors at said mall after 23 years.

    2.6 km · shopping mall in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Bromley Cemetery

    Bromley Cemetery is a cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand. It occupies approximately 10 hectares to the east of the city centre, on the corner of Keighleys Road and Linwood Avenue.

    2.5 km · cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand · Wikipedia

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.

Go there

Getting to Wainoni

Airports
Christchurch (CHC), 13 km · Wellington (WLG), 299 km
  • Wellington → Wainoni
    301 km · quickest by air, 3h 58m · NZ$140–220
  • Queenstown → Wainoni
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Auckland → Wainoni
    761 km · quickest by air, 5h 17m · NZ$220–340
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wainoni

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 Wainoni. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    401 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,045 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,700 km
  4. 04
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,129 km
  5. 05
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,757 km

If you know how people move in Wainoni – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Wainoni

Wainoni is 5 km from Christchurch, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • New Brightonsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3.4 km
  • Avondalesuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand1.4 km
  • Avonsidesuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand2.1 km
  • Bexleysuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand1.8 km
  • Aranuisuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand1.4 km
  • Burwoodsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand2 km