Three local government areas, 77 square kilometres, and more than 337,000 people sharing the dense, walkable core of Australia’s most famously liveable city. Melbourne’s Inner Metro Region is where Victorian bluestone laneways, a UNESCO-listed exhibition hall, bayside piers, and the Southern Hemisphere’s largest tram network stitch together into a single neighbourhood. The region spans the […]
In the Greater Melbourne metropolitan are there are 341 officially recognised suburbs, based on the Victorian Government’s gazetted locality boundaries within the metropolitan area. That number rises to 540+ if you include all the suburbs of local government areas that fall within that boundary area. The 341 official suburbs sprawl across 9,900 square kilometres from […]
Including the complete V/Line Map for trains and buses. One of Melbourne’s most underrated visitor asset doesn’t run on the tram tracks or hide inside a laneway. It’s the regional train network, and as of 2026 it’s cheaper, faster, and easier to use than most locals realise. The 2023 fare reform quietly collapsed the cost […]
Melbourne’s train network is continually evolving with the Metro Tunnel opened for full service on 1 February, carving a 9km underground corridor beneath Swanston Street and handing the city five brand-new stations: Arden, Parkville, State Library, Town Hall and Anzac. The Sunbury, Cranbourne and Pakenham lines now skip the City Loop entirely and run through […]
Melbourne has one of the most extensive public transport networks in the Southern Hemisphere, and once you know how it works, it becomes one of the best ways to see the city. Trams criss-cross the CBD and inner suburbs at no cost within the Free Tram Zone. Trains push out to the suburbs and connect […]