Junction Station & Gaming is a bar on Commerce Street in Frankton, Hamilton, with a 4.3 Google rating from its customers. A neighbourhood bar lives or dies on its regulars: what counts is less a lengthy cocktail list than well-kept taps, a warm room and staff who learn your order by the second visit. Suburban locals of this kind tend to be early-evening places, quiet through the afternoon and busiest around dinnertime and match nights, when the screens go on. Where gaming machines are part of a New Zealand pub, they usually sit in a separate lounge off the main bar, and the sensible punter sets a limit before settling in. Whatever a place advertises, regulars judge it by its quietest night. Set in the middle of Frankton's shopping strip, it is a handy, well-rated stop for a quiet drink on Hamilton's western side.