Toronto/Yonge-Dundas

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By subway

By streetcar

• The 501 Queen streetcar line runs along Queen Street at the south end of the district.
• The 505 Dundas streetcar line runs along Dundas Street passing through Dundas Square somewhat resembling Times Square. You can take the westbound 505 streetcar to Chinatown.
• The 506 Carlton streetcar line runs along Carlton Street on the east side of Yonge Street and College Street on the West. You can take the westbound 506 streetcar to Little Italy and High Park.

By intercity bus

• Toronto Coach Terminal

  address: 610 Bay Street
  The coach bus terminal provides connections for multiple bus operators: Megabus to New York and Montreal via Kingston, Coach Canada to Niagara Falls and Buffalo, Greyhound to Detroit and between the Windsor-Ottawa corridor and Ontario Northland to Sudbury and North Bay via Barrie.

• Arts and Letters Club

  phone: +1 416-597-0223
  address: 14 Elm Street
  The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto is in a very attractive Victorian-era building built in 1891, which is a designated National Historic Site of Canada. The club brings together writers, architects, musicians, painters, graphic artists, actors, and others working in or with a love of the arts.

• Campbell House

  phone: +1 416-597-0227
  address: 160 Queen St W
  This is one of the oldest remaining buildings in Toronto and is one of the few examples of Georgian architecture in Toronto. In 1972 it was under threat of demolition and a campaign started to save the house. It was at this time that it was moved to current location, restored and opened as a museum.

• Canada Life Building

  address: 330 University Ave
  This building, built in 1931 by the Canadian Life Insurance Company, is one of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts architecture in Toronto. The building is perhaps best known for its weather beacon, installed on August 9, 1951. The beacon shines red for rain, white for snow, and lights running up or down it indicate a change in temperature. Normally, the building is closed to the public; however, its 17th floor observation deck is usually featured during the annual Doors Open event.

• City Hall and Nathan Phillips SquareToronto's modernist City Hall designed by Finnish architect Viljo Revell and was completed in 1965. Nathan Phillips Square features a reflecting pool that turns into a skating rink in the winter. The Peace Garden is on the middle west side of the square just beyond the elevated walkway. If you walk further west between the rear of Osgoode Hall and the modern Superior Court of Justice, you will see a park with a few sculptures and a fountain at University Avenue.

• Church of the Holy Trinity

  address: Trinity Square
  This modest Gothic Revival church was built in 1847. It is approximately five storeys tall, and though the scale of the church is modest, its height is emphasized through details which point upward. With the rectory building, the church gives Trinity Square a rustic look despite the modern buildings around it. The square has densely planted trees along walkways, a decorative fountain of water falling from a wall into an ornamental pond, and an artificial stream.

• College Park

  address: 420 Yonge St
  This small, attractive park sits amid tall buildings on all four sides. It has walkways, benches, flower beds, a water feature and five large bronze statues of frogs. In winter, an oval "trail" in the park can be frozen for ice skating. The trail is named after Barbara Ann Scott, a Canadian figure skater and a gold medal winner in the 1948 Olympics. You can buy a coffee in the shopping mall at the north side and enjoy it in the park.

• Mackenzie House

  address: 82 Bond St
  Mackenzie House, built in 1830, was the last home of William Lyon Mackenzie, the city's first mayor. Mackenzie lived here from 1835 to 1837. Today the house has period furnishings and there is an exhibit of many 19th century printing presses in a nice mock-up of an old printing office. (Mackenzie was editor of his own newspaper, The Constitution). Mackenzie abandoned the house after participating in a failed rebellion in 1837.

• Masonic Hall

  address: 601 Yonge St
  This very attractive 5-storey, Victorian-era building was built in 1888 as a Masonic Hall. The building has a distinctive tower-like fifth floor with a peaked-cap roof.

• Old City Hall

  address: 60 Queen Street West
  This landmark, built in the Romanesque Revival style and completed in 1899, has a distinctive clock tower which can seen along Bay St from Front Street. The architect was E. J. Lennox who also designed Casa Loma. Old City Hall was home to Toronto's city council from 1899 to 1966. The building is a National Historic Site of Canada, and will continue to serve as the York County Court House until 2021 when it will be converted to a new purpose.

• Osgoode Hall

  phone: +1 416-947-3300
  address: 130 Queen St W
  This beautiful building was built in 1832 to house the Law Society of Upper Canada. It now houses the Ontario Court of Appeals and the Superior Court of Justice in addition to the Law Society. The building is open to the public; call ahead to arrange a tour.

• Ryerson University Student Learning Centre

  address: Yonge St at Gould St
  Yonge Street's newest landmark is the Ryerson University Student Learning Centre opened in 2015. The eight-story building features a glass façade, an elevated plaza and a rather distintive entrance. The glass façade has a distinctive glass skin to reflect a variety lighting throughout the building interior.

• St Michael's Catholic Cathedral

  phone: +1 416-364-0234
  address: 200 Church St
  Gothic-style cathedral that is one of the oldest churches in Toronto.

• Textile Museum of Canada

  phone: +1 416-599-5321
  address: 55 Centre Ave
  This museum is dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and documentation of textiles. It has displays on historic & ethnographic fabrics, plus contemporary art & hands-on exhibits.

• Toronto Police Museum & Discovery Centre

  phone: +1 416-808-7020
  address: 40 College Street
  Occupying 3,000 square feet in the atrium at Police Headquarters building, the museum reflects the tradition and history of policing in Toronto.

• Toronto Fire Station 314

  address: 32 Grosvenor St
  This Tudor-style fire station was built in 1929. Toronto has a number of attractively-styled fire stations built before 1940 in the older parts of the city.

• Tower of former Fire Hall 3

  address: 484 Yonge Street
  All that is left of Fire Hall 3, built in 1872, is its elegant clock tower, the main structure having been demolished and replaced a retail building, which by 2019 has been demolished leaving the tower standing alone within a construction site

• Yonge-Dundas Square

  address: 1 Dundas St E
  Dundas Square is a bustling outdoor public space & live-event venue hosting free concerts, movies & community events. The square has fountains and sitting areas and is surrounded by buildings with colourful electronic billboards.

• Yonge Street map

  address: Eaton Centre, Yonge St
  There is bronze map of "Yonge Street" set in the sidewalk across the street from Yonge-Dundas Square to promote the urban myth that Yonge Street is the longest street in the world. Until 1999, the Guinness Book of World Records supported this myth because it incorrectly assumed that provincial Highway 11, long, and Yonge Street, long, were one and the same.

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• Cineplex Cinemas Yonge-Dundas and VIP

  phone: +1 416-977-9262
  address: 10 Dundas Street East
  One of the first new movie houses along Yonge St in decades.

• Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre

  phone: +1 416-314-2901
  address: 189 Yonge St
  These two theatres are the last remaining Edwardian stacked theatres in the world. They were opened in 1913, showing mainly Vaudeville acts. After the decline of Vaudeville, the upper level Winter Garden closed and the lower level Elgin was converted into a cinema. By the 1970s the Elgin was showing a mixture of B-movies and pornography, but in the 1980s the Ontario Heritage Foundation bought both theatres and restored them to their original glory. They now show mainly Broadway plays and musicals and serve as venues for the Toronto International Film Festival.

• Tours of the Elgin & Winter Garden TheatresThis 1½-hour tour will recount the history and restoration of this National Historic Site of Canada. You will see the original and new lobbies, a backstage exhibit housing the Winter Garden’s original Simplex Silent Film Projector, a dressing room containing artifacts from the time period, and samples from the world’s largest collection of vaudeville scenery.

Large stores and shopping centres

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• CF Toronto Eaton Centre

  address: 220 Yonge St
  The Eaton Centre is the city's (and perhaps the country's) best known shopping centre and Toronto's most-visited tourist attraction. In large part, this is due to the mall's simply massive size, demonstrated by the eight-storey glass-roofed atrium running nearly its entire length between Dundas and Queen Streets. The complex boasts more than 285 shops and services, including most of North America's most popular brands, and two food courts catering for every taste. The flock of fibreglass Canada geese suspended from the ceiling are a popular photo op. In 2014, the Eaton Centre acquired the large, elegant Hudson's Bay department store building on the south side of Queen Street, with portions of the building dating from 1895. A tunnel, a footbridge and a street level crosswalk connect the Hudson's Bay building to the rest of the Eaton Centre.

• Hudson's Bay Queen Street

  phone: +1 416-861-9111
  The Hudson's Bay Company is the oldest company in North America, founded in 1670 as a fur-trading company but is today a chain of department stores in Canada. This flagship store offers a large variety of moderately priced goods.

• Saks Fifth Avenue

  address: 1 Queen St E
  This is the first Saks Fifth Avenue store in Canada and shares a building with Hudson's Bay which owns Saks Fifth Avenue. There are hardly any separators between the Saks and Bay areas of the building. Saks offers expensive, high-end goods (examples: pair of jeans $400, long-sleeved T-shirt $285, scarf $627, Manolo Blahnik heels $695).

• Nordstrom

  phone: +1 416-552-2900
  address: 260 Yonge St
  High-end, 3-storey department store.

• Apple Store

  address: Eaton Centre
  Browse for the latest technologies, get help from an on site 'genius', or simply admire the industrial design of the latest Apple products.

• Mark's

  address: Toronto Eaton Centre, 65 Dundas St W
  Casual and outdoor clothing. If you're coming from a warm country during winter, a popular store with locals that work outdoors where you might find fairly-priced winter clothes is Mark's inside the mall.

• LCBO (liquor) store

  address: Atrium on Bay, basement level

• Winner's

  address: College Park (ground floor)
  Winner's is a favourite of Toronto's bargain hunters looking for brand name clothing.

• Loblaws

  address: Maple Leaf Gardens, ground floor
  In addition to the expected grocery store selection, this Loblaws supermarket also features an 18-foot tall wall of cheese, a tempting pastry counter, a cooking school, open concept food preparation areas and a seating area to enjoy foods prepraed in the store.

• LCBO (liquor) Store

  address: Maple Leaf Gardens (2nd floor)

Downtown Yonge

• From Richmond St to Dundas St, there are small shops and restaurants lining the east side of the street opposite the Bay and the Eaton Centre on the west side.
• Dundas St north to Gerrard St, is is a favourite of Torontonians looking for bargains despite being a little rundown and sleazy (with strip clubs and porn shops both being part of the ambience).
• From College St to Bloor Street there are dozens of small shops, including several used book stores, comics stores, used record stores, dollar stores and just about everything else you can imagine. Although the stock may be a little run down, the area is safe, clean, busy and popular day and night.

• Lai Wah Heen Restaurant

  phone: +1 416-977-9899
  address: 108 Chestnut St
  Dim sum at lunch, a la carte menus at lunch and dinner, take-out available. Luxurious, Hong Kong-style dim sum.

• Paramount Fine Foods

  phone: +1 416-366-3600
  address: 253 Yonge St
  Middle Eastern restaurant serving barbecued halal meats, house-baked pitas & baklava made on-site.

• The Pickle Barrel Restaurant

  phone: +1 416-977-6677
  address: 312 Yonge Street
  A large menu of North-American cuisine. It also has a selection of dishes from further afield, their take on traditional English fish and chips is a nice surprise using halibut instead of cod or haddock. Reasonable prices, decent food but nothing fancy. Nowhere near as much fun as any of the above places.

• Ramen Raijin

  phone: +1 647-748-1500
  address: 24 Wellesley St W Rear
  Japanese restaurant specializing in ramen, a noodle soup with a choice of meats and ingredients.

• Salad King

  phone: +1 416-593-0333
  address: 340 Yonge St
  Some of Toronto's best Thai food in a very convenient location; just don't come here to relax. Often with a considerable line at meal times, the funky-cafeteria style seating certainly won't give you much privacy, but you'll see why people subject themselves to it. Try the golden curry chicken.

• Swiss Chalet

  address: 362 Yonge St
  Despite its name, this restaurant chain was started in Toronto. The specialty is barbecued chicken with chalet sauce. As an appetizer, try garlic cheese loaf. Wheelchair accessible.

• Uncle Tetsu's Angel Cafe

  phone: +1 647-351-2666
  address: 191 Dundas St W
  Japanese-style maid café featuring desserts (specialty: cheesecake) with coffee. There is a limited performance schedule to see the cute "maids" sing and dance.

• Uncle Tetsu's Japanese Cheesecake

  phone: +1 416-591-0555
  address: 598 Bay St
  The cake has a light, delicious taste with an eggy rather than a cheesy taste. This shop can be quite busy, originally having 2 hour lines, but lately the line is shorter. Take-out only.

• Bubble Republic on Bay

  phone: +1 647-748-9188
  address: 637 Bay Street
  Authentic Taiwanese food and bubble tea

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• The Duke of Gloucester

  phone: +1 416 961-9704
  address: 649 Yonge St
  Great no-nonsense English pub. Good selection of beer at reasonable prices. Not much in the way of food, though.

• 3 Brewers

  phone: +1 647 347-6286
  address: 275 Yonge St
  Great brewpub across the street from the Eaton Centre. The beer is excellent and the food is in the style of the Alsace region of France, where the chain started.

• Backpackers on Dundas

  phone: +1 416-599-7225
  address: 126 Chestnut St
  A bright and friendly hostel, extremely well situated within walking distance of Yonge and Dundas. Clean but only a few rooms, all dorms.

• Bond Place Hotel

  phone: +1 416-362-6061
  address: 65 Dundas St E
  Downtown hotel near Toronto subway (TTC) and 2 blocks from the Eaton Centre. Rooms feature hardwood floors, LCD TVs and spa bathrooms. Other amenities include fitness room, business services, parking and airport shuttle drop-off.

• Courtyard Toronto Downtown

  phone: +1 416-924-0611
  address: 475 Yonge St
  Offers accommodations, a wedding location, meeting space, banquet facilities, and hotel packages. Two blocks from the University of Toronto.

• Neill-Wycik Summer Hotel

  address: 96 Gerrard St E
  This student co-op apartment building converts to a hostel for May through August and provides cheap accommodation. All rooms are private and locked, with shared bath. Continental breakfast included.

• Sheraton Centre

  phone: +1 416-361-1000
  address: 123 Queen St W
  This is one of Toronto's largest hotels and has been voted the ugliest building in the city. While it may appear horrid from the outside, it is the complete opposite on the inside. The lobby is full of wood paneling and dark red and the rooms are reasonably pleasant. Rooms on the north side of either tower provide wonderful views of Nathan Philips Square and City Hall. Amenities include a year-round pool, 24-hour fitness centre and business centre. The hotel is connected to the PATH.

• Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre

  phone: +1 416-597-9200
  address: 525 Bay St
  At Toronto’s Eaton Centre, this hotel features a swimming pool, fitness centre, restaurants, and meeting facilities.

• City Hall Library

  phone: +1 416-393-7650
  address: Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St W
  Wi-fi, computers with internet access.

• Toronto Atrium on Bay Post Office

  address: 595 Bay St
  Stamps and shipping services, money orders.

• Downtown East: Church-Wellesley Village, Cabbagetown.
• Entertainment and Financial Districts: CN Tower, Ripley's Aquarium, Roy Thomson Hall, Union Station.
• Kensington-Chinatown: Kensington Market, Chinatown, Art Gallery of Ontario.
• Yorkville and the Annex: Royal Ontario Museum, University of Toronto, Yorkville.