page_title: Kawakawa, New Zealand
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: Kawakawa, New Zealand / Features
caption_attribution_description: These toilets were designed in 1997 by Austrian born Friedensreich Hundertwasser in the Gaudi style. As you do.
context_page_description: Kawakawa is a small town in the Bay of Islands area of the Northland Region of New Zealand. Kawakawa developed as a service town when coal was found there in the 1860s, but coal mining ceased in the early 20th century. The economy is now based on farming. The town is named after the kawakawa shrub.
context_section_description: The town is known as "Train Town", because the Bay of Islands Vintage Railway runs down the middle of its main street on the former Opua Branch railway line. Eight km of the 17 km track reopened in 2008. At present trains cannot go over "Long Bridge" because rails have not been relaid since it was re-piled, and the track between this bridge at Taumarere and Opua is being used as part of the Twin Coast Cyclepath. When the rails have been relaid, the cyclepath will be moved next to the track.
  The town is also famous for its Hundertwasser toilet block, designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who was a resident of the town from 1975 until his death in 2000.
  The Kawiti glowworm caves at nearby Waiomio are also an attraction.
caption: Entrance to the Hundertwasser toilet building
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