Places of interest and Tourist Attractions in and around Johannesburg
 

Iron Age site , Melville Koppies.

5 km

Newtown Cultural Precinct
(includes Museum Africa; Sci Bono Discovery Centre,Beautiful Things craft exhibition; night life at Kippies; Carfax, Market Theatre, and Moyo Restaurant)

11 km southeast

Soweto
(Hector Pieter Memorial and Museum, Mandela House, Regina Mundi Church)

28 km  southwest

   

Constitution Hill (The new Court, the Fort, and old prison buildings. Excellent introduction to the geography and lay-out of Johannesburg from the Fort ramparts and the history of Johannesburg and South Africa )

 

Origins Centre

9 km southeast

Gold Reef City

15.3 south

Planetarium, Wits University . Planetarium.

9 km southeast

Montecasino Bird garden

16.6 km North

SAB World of Beer

11 km southeast

Market Theater Complex

10 km southeast

Johannesburg Stock Exchange

13 km northeast

SCI- BONO Discovery Centre

10.4 km southeast

Ubuntu Kraal

21.6 km south

   

Johannesburg Zoo

7 km southeast

Lion Park

20.5 km southeast

Krugersdorp Game Reserve

32.3 km west

Elephant Sanctuary, Hartebeespoort

52.7 km north

De Wildt Cheetah & Wildlife Centre

76.9 km north

Pilanesberg Nature Reserve

188 km northwest

   

Sophiatown (site of forced removals in the 1950s)

 

Stanley Avenue, Auckland Park ( galleries, clubs, alternative retro shopping)

5 km

Rosebank Rooftop Market (Sundays and Public Holidays only)

5 km

African Craft Market, Rosebank Mall

5 km

   

Sandton Convention Centre

12.2 km northeast

Northgate Dome

12.1 km northwest

Montecasino

16.6 km north

Nasrec

17.9 km south

Gallagher Estate

27 km northeast

   

Apartheid Museum (next to Gold Reef City )

15 km south

Railway Society of SA & Preservation Centre

2 km northwest

National Museum of Military History .

 

   

Adler Museum of the History of Music

8.2 km southeast

Adler Museum of the History of Medicine

11.2 km southeast 

Alf Kumalo Historical Photography Museum

19 km south

Absa Group Museum

12 km southeast

AECI Dynamite Factory Museum

33 km northeast

Museum Africa

10.2 km southeast

Hector Pieterson Memorial Museum

17.9 km southwest

James Hall Transport Museum

15.2 km southeast

Kliptown Open Air Museum

28 km southwest

Museum of Man and Science

12 km southeast

New Rock Art Museum , Wits University.

 

Nelson Mandela's Family Museum

18 km southwest

South African National Museum of Military History

7.7 km southeast

   

Midrand

27 km northeast

Lesedi Cultural Village

40 km north

Maropeng- Cradle of Human Kind

46 km northwest

Hartebeespoortdam

51 km north

Pretoria

67 km northeast

Vaal rivier, Vanderbijlpark

80 km south

Vaalriver, Parys

99 km southwest

Vredefort Crater

120 km southwest

Suncity

162 km northwest