Wakari
Wakari is a residential suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin.

Wakari is a residential suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) to the northwest of the city centre, immediately to the west of the ridge which runs to the west of the city's centre. Wakari lies to the north of the upper reaches of the Kaikorai Valley, and is also north of the suburb of Kaikorai. The suburbs of Roslyn and Maori Hill are situated on the ridge immediately to the southeast and east of Wakari. The suburb of Halfway Bush lies to the northwest, and the smaller suburb of Helensburgh lies to the north.
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Getting to Wakari
- Airports
- Queenstown (ZQN), 165 km
- Queenstown → WakariTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Christchurch → Wakari309 km · quickest by road, 6h 20m · NZ$50–65
- Wellington → Wakari614 km · quickest by road, 16h 40m · NZ$110–150
- 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 Wakari
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 Wakari. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundPort To Port Cruises operate a charter ferry across the harbour to complete the circuit between Port Chalmers and Portobello.
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