Albion Square is a tourist attraction at 44 London Street, the main street of the port town of Lyttelton on Banks Peninsula, carrying a 4.4 rating from 111 Google reviews. Squares of this kind rarely ask for a ticket or a booking; they reward a slow pause and a proper look around rather than a ticked box. The trick is to treat a square as an anchor for a wander, and Lyttelton makes that easy: its streets are steep, its sights cluster within a few blocks, and parking once to walk the heritage lanes, the harbour edge and the cafés nearby repays the effort. Set inside an extinct volcanic crater, the town catches fast-changing light over the port, which photographers in particular come to chase. For a pause woven into a walking loop of Lyttelton, Albion Square could hardly be better placed.