The tour promotes his recent release, Dizzy Heights which has already seen him perform in Australia, Canada, the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Dubai and Amsterdam.
Finn did not set out to make the third solo album with a theme in mind, but it soon became clear his influences were leaning skyward.
"It crept up on me. I started noticing it in lots of places. You start off with a number of different threads and angles and demos, and they dictate the terms of the record. It's only in the course of the process that you maybe get a feeling there's a type of song emerging, or an atmosphere."
Sir Edmund Hillary, who conquered Mount Everest in 1953, was part of that inspiration.
"There's something in the New Zealand DNA about trying to scale impossible heights. It's something that can be very positive, but also has its downside."
Filled with light-hearted melodies, Dizzy Heights contemplates love in Better than TV, loss in Flying in the Face of Love growing older in Recluse and allure, in Lights of New York.
Special guest Bic Runga will open Finn's New Zealand shows - a slot which doubles as her return to the stage after a three-year hiatus.
"It's back to basics with this album," Runga said.
"I've never really tried to make an album fashionable - this one is lightly acoustic."
The Kiwi singer/songwriter and mum-of-two, was currently working on her un-named fifth album, and was "hungry to get back on stage".
• Catch Neil Finn at Napier Municipal Theatre tomorrow night from 8pm, with Bic Runga. For tickets phone 0800 842 538.