Woollahra
Woollahra is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
Woollahra is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woollahra is located 5 km (3.1 mi) east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra. Woollahra is located on the traditional land of the Birrabirragal and Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. The Municipality of Woollahra takes its name from the suburb but its administrative centre is located in Double Bay. Woollahra is known for its quiet, tree-lined residential streets and village-style shopping centre.
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Worth seeing in and around Woollahra
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.
- 012025 Bondi Beach shooting
On 14 December 2025, an antisemitic and Islamic State –inspired terrorist attack occurred at the Archer Park area of Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, during a celebration of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah attended by around 1,000 people. Sajid Akram and his son, Naveed Akram, allegedly shot dead 15 people, including 11 men, 3 women, and a 10-year-old girl.
2.7 km · mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on 14 December 2025 · Wikipedia - 02Australian Museum
The Australian Museum, originally known as the Colonial Museum and Sydney Museum, is a state public museum in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is operated and funded as a cultural institution by the state government of New South Wales.
3.6 km · museum in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia - 03Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground is a stadium located in the Sydney suburb of Moore Park. It is primarily used for Australian rules football and cricket as the home ground of the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League, the Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League and the New South Wales cricket team in the Sheffield Shield.
2.5 km · Cricket stadium in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most important public gallery in Sydney and one of the largest in Australia.
3.4 km · public art gallery and museum in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Sydney Football Stadium II
Sydney Football Stadium is a stadium located in the Sydney suburb of Moore Park. It is primarily used for rugby league, rugby union, and soccer as the home ground of the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League, the New South Wales Waratahs in Super Rugby, and Sydney FC in the A-League Men.
2.4 km · football stadium built 2022 in Moore Park, Sydney · Wikipedia - 06St Mary’s Cathedral
The Cathedral Church and Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Mother of God, Help of Christians, Patroness of Australia, locally known as Saint Mary's Cathedral, is a Catholic basilica and the seat of the Archdiocese of Sydney. The cathedral is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the venerated title of “Our Lady, Help of Christians" and Patroness of Australia.
3.6 km · cathedral in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 07Hyde Park
Hyde Park, is an urban park, of 16.2-hectare, located in the central business district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is the oldest public parkland in Australia.
3.7 km · park in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 08Anzac Memorial
The Anzac Memorial is a heritage-listed war memorial, museum and monument located in Hyde Park South near Liverpool Street in the CBD of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Art Deco monument was designed by C. Bruce Dellit, with the exterior adorned with monumental figural reliefs and sculptures by Rayner Hoff, and built from 1932 to 1934 by Kell & Rigby.
3.7 km · memorial and museum in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia - 09St James’ Church, Sydney
St James' Church, commonly known as St James', King Street, is an Australian heritage-listed Anglican parish church located at 173 King Street, in the Sydney central business district in New South Wales. Consecrated in February 1824 and named in honour of St James the Great, it became a parish church in 1835.
3.9 km · Anglican parish church in inner city Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia - 10Great Synagogue
The Great Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation located in a large heritage-listed synagogue at 187a Elizabeth Street in the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia. The congregation is the oldest in the Sydney Jewish community, and comprises around 550 families.
3.9 km · large synagogue in Sydney · Wikipedia
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Getting to Woollahra
- Airports
- Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 10 km · Newcastle (NTL), 133 km
- Stations
- Port Jackson, 3.2 km · Bondi Junction railway station, 900 m · Mrs Macquarie's Chair, 3.7 km · Museum railway station, 3.8 km
- Williamtown → Woollahra132 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · A$21–28
- Gold Coast → Woollahra687 km · quickest by air, 5h 2m · A$220–330
- Toowoomba → Woollahra707 km · quickest by air, 4h 50m · A$210–330
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Woollahra
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 Woollahra. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inCircular Quay has the Opera House, Ferries, Harbour Foreshore and the Botanic Gardens.
- Get inThere is also a direct link to Barangaroo via the train station, which has a ferry wharf for ferries to Parramatta, North Sydney, and a more circuitous but scenic route to Circular Quay.
- Get inCircular Quay is underneath the railway station and close to the ferry terminal.
- Get inThe most pleasant way to arrive in Sydney city centre, or to get out and see the Sydney harbour or north shore, is by ferry.
- Get inMost ferry routes (from 41 wharves around the Sydney harbour suburbs) start or finish at Circular Quay, at the northern end of the CBD.
From Wikivoyage: Sydney/City Centre, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Woollahra is 4 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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