Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Wellesley Street East, Auckland CBD
The Auckland Art Gallery (Toi o Tāmaki) is New Zealand's largest public art collection — housed in a dramatically remodelled 1888 French Renaissance building whose 2011 extension (designed by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp) won the World Building of the Year award at the 2013 World Architecture Festival.
Auckland Fish Market
Jellicoe Street, Wynyard Quarter
The Auckland Fish Market is New Zealand's main seafood hub — a wholesale-plus-retail market on Jellicoe Street in Wynyard Quarter that handles an estimated 3,000 tonnes of seafood a year and whose redeveloped food hall (opened 2019) has become a destination for oyster bars, fish-and-chip stalls, and sushi trains that showcase the country's wild seafood.
Auckland War Memorial Museum
Parnell, Auckland Domain
The Auckland War Memorial Museum (Tāmaki Paenga Hira) is the city's most important museum — a Greek Revival temple atop a volcanic cone in the Auckland Domain that combines three collections: New Zealand's finest Māori and Pacific taonga (treasures), a natural history collection, and a WWI and WWII memorial that is New Zealand's most visited.
Eden Park
Reimers Avenue, Kingsland
Eden Park is New Zealand's national stadium — a 50,000-capacity rugby and cricket ground in Kingsland that has been the primary venue for All Blacks Test matches since 1921 and for Black Caps cricket since 1930, and has hosted two Rugby World Cup finals (1987 and 2011) plus the 1992 Cricket World Cup final.
Karangahape Road (K Road)
Karangahape Road, Auckland CBD
Karangahape Road — universally known as K Road — is Auckland's alternative high street, a mile-long strip along the southern edge of the CBD that was once the city's red-light and working-class Pacific neighbourhood and has since become the centre of Auckland's queer, arts, and alternative scenes.
Parnell Village
Parnell Road, Parnell
Parnell is Auckland's oldest surviving suburb — a ridge-top residential and commercial district of restored Victorian and Edwardian wooden villas, converted wool stores, and boutique retail immediately east of the CBD.
Ponsonby
Ponsonby Road, Auckland
Ponsonby is Auckland's most fashionable suburb — a ridge-top neighbourhood of restored Victorian villas west of the CBD whose main street (Ponsonby Road) has transformed from a working-class Pasifika community in the 1970s to the city's densest concentration of good restaurants, design stores, and boutique retail.
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