Post The postcodes for the area are: • 3114 – Railway line to harbour edge • 3172 – Railway line towards SH2
Phone The dialing prefix(es) for the town are • (+64) 7 548
Bus Baybus runs Monday to Friday buses between Tauranga and Ōmokoroa Beach.
Cycleway The Ōmokoroa-Tauranga cycleway is long. It includes local roads and a narrow footpath, as well as gravel cycle paths.
Ferry Matakana Ferry 2000 Ltd runs a subsidised ferry 4 times a day between Ōmokoroa and
Matakana Island.
Railways Ōmokoroa railway station Ōmokoroa had a
flag station along Plummers Point Rd, from 16 October 1913, on the tramway, and, on the
East Coast Main Trunk, from 28 March 1928 to 11 September 1967 (6 April 1986 for goods), though a special train ran on 29 February 1928 and goods were carried from 5 March.
New Zealand Railways (NZR) took over from the
Public Works Department (PWD) on 18 June 1928. The station had a shelter shed, cart approach, a by goods shed, cattle and sheep yards, a loading bank and a
passing loop for 29 wagons. It also had toilets until they were closed in 1958. The station was on the section of the railway between
Tahawai and
Te Puna, built by
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co for about £500,000. Due to difficulties in establishing firm foundations for the line and its bridges, it was the last section of the Auckland-Tāneatua line to be completed. It was unusual at the time for contracts to be given to private companies, rather than to PWD, or worker cooperatives. The contractors built a wharf and stacking yard at
Mount Maunganui, and landing-stages at several estuaries along the Harbour. They built 100 x 2-man, 13 x 4-man, 66 x 6-man huts, 46 married quarters, 3 cookhouses, 4 bathhouses, 2 recreation-rooms, quarters for field engineers and had two steam-locomotives, six steam-navvies, six petrol-locomotives, two steam pile-drivers, concrete-mixers, launches, punts, motor-lorries and ballast-trucks. Earthworks amounted to . The Ōmokoroa-Tauranga cycleway shares the causeways and bridges over Mangawhai Bay and bridge 59 over Te Puna River,
Leyland O’Brien tramline About 1913,
Whakamārama Land and Timber Co built a
3ft 6in gauge tramway to serve their mill, with a phone line alongside. From May 1914 it carried timber to the wharf, to be loaded on the 90 ton
scow Moa (launched on 1 November 1907 by
George Turnbull Niccol) for Leyland O'Brien Timber Co, Auckland. The timber was mainly
rimu, carried from what is now the
Kaimai Mamaku Conservation Park for about to Whakamārama mill and about the same distance to Ōmokoroa wharf (along what is now Plummers Point Rd). The
Moa was the ship captured by
Felix von Luckner when he escaped from
Motuihe Island / Te Motu-a-Ihenga internment camp in 1917. A fire on
Moa was put out in 1921. She lasted until being stranded in the
Wanganui River on 30 March 1935, where she was buried in sand and shingle. From 1919 some of the cut areas were sold for farming. In 1928 a siding was added to serve the new railway at Ōmokoroa station. The mill, which was just east of the village, was rebuilt in 1930, after a fire. At that time the tram was worked by two steam locomotives and a converted Ford tractor. Some of the rails were lifted in 1941 and no tramway equipment was mentioned in a 1947 advert selling other items from the mill, but the upper part of the tramway may have remained in use until about 1947. The rest of the track was lifted by 1969. Parts of the tramway are now a walking track from the end of Whakamārama Road. ==Education==