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Toowoomba
City in Queensland, Australia

Toowoomba

Toowoomba is a city on the border of the South East Queensland and Darling Downs regions of Queensland, Australia.

Plan a trip to Toowoomba→From Brisbane

It is located 132 km (82 mi) west of Queensland's capital, Brisbane. The urban population of Toowoomba as of the 2021 census was 142,163, having grown at an average annual rate of 1.45% over the previous two decades. Toowoomba is the second-most-populous inland city in Australia after the nation's capital, Canberra. It is also the second-largest regional centre in Queensland and is often referred to as the capital of the Darling Downs, or the 4th biggest city in South East Queensland after Brisbane, Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast. The city serves as the council seat of the Toowoomba Region which has a population of 186,276 as of 2025.

Get in

Getting to Toowoomba

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    Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport
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    Toowoomba

    There are three main ways to get into Toowoomba from the south, though there are some additional highways coming from the north and northwest.

See

Worth seeing

Picnic Point, a beautiful outlook on the edge of 'The Range'.

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    Cobb+Co Museum

    A museum displaying many different horse carriages, tools and pretty much everything used in 19th-century inland Queensland.

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    Bunya Mountains National Park

    The second national park in Queensland established in 1908, best known for the 10-kilogram bunya pine, hence its name.

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    Crows Nest National Park
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    Ravensbourne National Park
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    Queens Park and Botanical Gardens

    The prime botanic garden of Toowoomba, and is also one of the oldest in Queensland, having gazetted in 1869.

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    Ja Raku En
Do

Things to do

There is a tourist drive around the City, there are distinctive signs that mark this route. Empire Theatre, 54-56 Neil St, toll-free: 1300 655 299Country code missing. Established in 1911, watch a show at the heritage-listed threatre. The seating capacity is 1,565. Visit the Sunday Markets at the Toowoomba PCYC The Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers is hosted by the city in late September each year.

Eat

Where to eat

Toowoomba doesn't have many budget restaurants, but there are plenty of fast food chains that are there if you're on a budget.

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    Dee's Vintage Thai

    515 Ruthven St, pvintage2007@hotmail.com.

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    La Pizzaiola

    A southern Italian restaurant, well, known for its pizza as the name of the restaurant says.

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    Sofra Turkish Cuisine

    A very vivid and vibrant Turkish restaurant, claiming to be authentic – as for that, the interior gives a Turkish vibe, and many of the dishes are homemade Turkish dishes.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.