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Colonial Knob

It may get snow in winter but at other times is a rewarding few hours' walk for great views of Cook Strait and beyond.

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Top Taste Restaurant
Contemporary Asian cuisine.
Mon–Sat 11AM–3PM and 4:30–10PM; Sun 4–10PM
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Curry Village
Fine Indian cuisine, allows reservations and has take away.
Daily 11:30AM–2:30PM and 5–9:30PM
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Pataka Art + Museum
A museum and art gallery. There is a Japanese Garden (contributed by sister city Nishio) and at the adjacent public library you can see one of the North Island's best genealogical collections.
Daily 10AM-5PM · Free
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Takapuwahia Marae
The headquarters of the Ngati Toa tribe, who immigrated from the Waikato in the 1820s under Te Rauparaha; across the harbour, see the small historic reserve in Plimmerton where the Government captured him in 1846, and which seems to be in better condition than the ruins of the stone fort that was built in the same year at "Parramatta" (now the Ngatitoa Domain) but dismembered by an earthquake very soon after.