The Fiji Sugar Corporation mill dominates the Lautoka waterfront and is central to the town's identity. During the crushing season from June to November, the smell of processed cane hangs over the town, the mill chimneys smoke, and the narrow-gauge cane trains run through the streets and fields. The mill can only be visited on a guided tour arranged through the Fiji Sugar Corporation; tours run during the season and give access to the processing facility and a short ride on the cane train.
Out of season, the mill is visible from the port area and waterfront. The Lautoka Visitor Information Centre can help arrange mill tours during crushing season. The cane fields that feed the mill spread inland across the Nadi and Ba river valleys and give the western Viti Levu landscape its distinctive look of flat, green rows broken by occasional farmhouses.