Mount Taranaki: New Zealand’s Stand-In for Mount Fuji Tom Cruise’s The Last Samurai is set in 1870s Japan. However, most of its rural scenery never came anywhere near Japan at all. Instead, the Mount Taranaki filming location on New Zealand’s North Island doubled convincingly for feudal-era Japan. The mountain itself stood in for the country’s
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Hiking the Mount Taranaki Summit Track – What You Need to Know Some mountains look approachable. Mount Taranaki is one of them. An almost perfectly symmetrical volcanic cone rising 2,518 metres above the Taranaki plains, it dominates the western North Island skyline in a way that makes you feel like you could simply walk up