638 Colombo Street
5 council reports since May 2025, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 794 Colombo Street, 159 reports on file.
On the register here
- Colonial Motor Company Garage and Setting, 201 St Asaph Street (125m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former Sargood Son and Ewen, 92 Lichfield Street (156m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Lawrie and Wilson Auctioneers, 210 Tuam Street (172m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former Wellington Woollen Mills Manufacturing Company, 96 Lichfield Street (174m)
- Former Tuam Street Hall and Setting, 214 Tuam Street (185m)
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The green nearby
- City Mall, 209 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 235 m to the edge
- Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 238 m to the edge · Botanic
- The Stewart Plaza, 292 m to the edge
- Friendship Corner, 303 m to the edge · Botanic
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 66 m away · Car park
- Triangle, 257 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Isushi, 9 m away · Restaurants
- Miyabi Sushi Sushi, 30 m away · Restaurants
- Archie Brothers Cirque Electriq, 34 m away · Arcades
- The Food Den, 44 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bus Interchange (Platform A), 29 m away · route 3, route 5, route 60, route 80, route 81, route 84, route 85, route 86
- Bus Interchange (Platform B), 65 m away · route 1, route 7, route 8, route 27, route 44, route 91, route 92, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 24 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 223 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 291 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 305 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 306 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Te Kiheru Wai o Tahu / the Canoe Bailer of Tahu / 2015, 243 m away ·
Te Kiheru Wai o Tahu / The Canoe Bailer of Tahu / 2015 / (MÄori text and English translat
· 2015
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Christchurch Central City ran about $508 a week, $42 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Public Toilet, 19 Oct 2026 No soap dispenser in this stall. Also, some pretty nasty graffiti on the door.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 25 May 2026 Outside bus interchange corner of Tuam and Colombo street
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 23 Mar 2026 Possible harassment. Deleting photo after submitting ticket. At Christchurch Bus Interchange - public toilets, Tuam Street end, stall 1. A
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 9 Dec 2025 Bus interchange toilets Tuam street first door on left with graffiti and racism on door, walls and mirror
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 12 May 2025 Graffiti Inside the bus interchange toilets
Elsewhere on Colombo Street
- 794 Colombo Street, 159 reports
- 673 Colombo Street, 102 reports
- 781 Colombo Street, 55 reports
- 521 Colombo Street, 46 reports
- 722 Colombo Street, 45 reports
- 569 Colombo Street, 45 reports
- 527 Colombo Street, 41 reports
- 711 Colombo Street, 38 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Colombo Street in 177 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 32 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.
Colombo Street, the whole record → · Everything about Christchurch Central City → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
5 council reports on record since May 2025, most often graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet (3), public toilet (1), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Colonial Motor Company Garage and Setting, Commercial Building and Setting, Former Sargood Son and Ewen.
City Mall, 209 m to its edge.