The Coastal Pacific train journey travels between the delightful port of Picton and Christchurch, the South Island’s largest city. This journey is a scenic feast of New Zealand, with the Kaikoura mountain ranges on one side of your train and the rugged Pacific Ocean coastline on the other. Along the way you pass though the village of Kaikoura, where, if you're touring New Zealand, you can break your journey to take in the whale watching or swim with the dolphins. Your Coastal Pacific train travel will take you through some of New Zealand’s finest horticultural and farmland areas, and see amazing wildlife such as dolphins, seals and penguins from the comfort of your train carriage.
The Coastal Pacific rail travel includes 22 tunnels and crosses 175 bridges, one of them being New Zealand’s only road-rail bridge. The Coastal Pacific includes an open air viewing carriage where all your senses are awakened with the clean, fresh, sea air. The train conveniently connects to the Interislander Ferry departing from Picton for Wellington and vice versa.