Hobbiton is located near the rural town of Matamata in the Waikato region on New Zealand’s North Island.

Exact location

  • Hobbiton sits on a family-run farm about 10 km southwest of Matamata and roughly 8 km west of Hinuera in Waikato.
  • The official movie-set entrance is on Buckland Road, with the visitor hub known as The Shire’s Rest just outside Matamata.

Distance from major cities

  • It is about a 2–2.5 hour drive south from Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city.
  • Rotorua is the closest major center, around 45–60 minutes’ drive away, with Taupo and Waitomo roughly 1.5 hours from the set.

What Hobbiton is

  • This is the permanent Hobbiton Movie Set built for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films, now run as a guided-tour attraction.
  • Visitors walk among over-40 hobbit holes, gardens, the mill, and the Green Dragon Inn, designed to recreate The Shire from Tolkien’s books.

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Hobbiton, the famous Shire movie set from The Lord of the Rings, is in the Waikato countryside near Matamata on New Zealand’s North Island, around a 2-hour drive south of Auckland.

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