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Wakari

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

Wakari
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Wakari

Airports
Queenstown (ZQN), 165 km
  • Queenstown → Wakari
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Christchurch → Wakari
    309 km · quickest by road, 6h 20m · NZ$50–65
  • Wellington → Wakari
    614 km · quickest by road, 16h 40m · NZ$110–150
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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 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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundPort To Port Cruises operate a charter ferry across the harbour to complete the circuit between Port Chalmers and Portobello.

From Wikivoyage: Dunedin, 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
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    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    239 km
  2. 02
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    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,853 km
  3. 03
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    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,768 km
  4. 04
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    2,988 km
  5. 05
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    4,055 km

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