Takapau is a small rural community in the Central Hawkes Bay in New Zealand.

[3] The original township was founded in 1876 by farmer Sydney Johnston from Oruawharo station.

Johnston's family donated land for a school and churches, and built the local library, public hall and, later, Plunket rooms.

[3] The largest business in Takapau is now the Silverfern Farms meat-processing plant, founded by the Hawke's Bay Farmers’ Meat Company in 1981.

Kintail Honey, one of country's largest honey-packing and beekeeping operations, is also based in the town.

[5] The local Rongo o Tahu Marae is a tribal meeting ground for the Ngāti Kahungunu hapū of Ngāi Toroiwaho.

[19] Edmund Allan and Samuel[20] Kingstreet[21] had a £14,100 contract to build the 14 mi (23 km) extension of the Napier to Waipukurau railway south to Takapau.

[27] The loop is still in use, with sidings linking to the Silver Fern Farms works and a platform and shelter remain,[28] which appear weed-grown in a 2015 photo.