Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located on a harbour at the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. The city is the fourth-most populous city in North America, behind Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles, with a census population of 2,794,356 as of 2021. The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is constituted of Toronto proper and four surrounding regions, Peel, York, Durham, and Halton, and has a population of 6,712,341, while the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), with a somewhat different definition, has a population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
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Worth seeing in and around Toronto
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university with three main campuses in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. Based on the grounds that surround Queen's Park in Toronto, it was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada.
1.6 km · public research university in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 02CN Tower
The CN Tower is a 553.3-metre-high communications and observation tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Completed in 1976, it is located in downtown Toronto, built on the former Railway Lands.
1.2 km · communications and observation tower in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 03Scotiabank Arena
Scotiabank Arena, formerly known as Air Canada Centre, is a multi-purpose arena located on Bay Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the home of the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association and the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.
1 km · indoor arena in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 04Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest museum in Canada.
2 km · museum of world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 05Rogers Centre
Rogers Centre is a retractable roof stadium in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated at the base of the CN Tower near the northern shore of Lake Ontario. Opened in 1989 on the former Railway Lands, it is home to the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball.
1.4 km · stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; home venue of the Toronto Blue Jays · Wikipedia - 06First Canadian Place
First Canadian Place is a commercial skyscraper in the Financial District of Toronto, Ontario, at the northwest corner of King and Bay streets, and serves as the global operational executive office of the Bank of Montreal. At 298 metres tall, it is the third-tallest building in Canada, the 35th-tallest building in North America, and the 261st-tallest in the world.
400 m · skyscraper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 07Toronto Metropolitan University
Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly known as Ryerson University, is a public research university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university's core campus is situated within the Garden District in downtown Toronto, although it also operates facilities elsewhere in the city and a satellite campus in Brampton for its medical school.
600 m · public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 08Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Gallery of Ontario is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located on Dundas Street West in the Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, the museum complex takes up 45,000 square metres of physical space, making it one of the largest art museums in North America and the second-largest art museum in Toronto, after the Royal Ontario Museum.
900 m · art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 09Hockey Hall of Fame
The Hockey Hall of Fame is a museum and hall of fame located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey, it holds exhibits about players, teams, National Hockey League records, memorabilia and NHL trophies, including the Stanley Cup.
700 m · sports museum in downtown Toronto · Wikipedia - 10Yonge Dundas Square
Sankofa Square, colloquially Dundas Square, is a public square and outdoor venue at the southeast corner of the intersection of Yonge Street and Dundas Street East within the Garden District in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The square was conceived in 1997 as part of a revitalization of the intersection and the stretch of Yonge Street.
400 m · public square in Toronto · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Art Gallery of Ontario. The largest art gallery in Canada. It has a great Canadian paintings exhibit and the world's largest collection of Henry Moore sculptures. The European paintings exhibit has a few excellent pieces including Ruben's The Massacre of the Innocents. Bata Shoe Museum. This offbeat museum is devoted to shoes and footwear from cultures all over the world.
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Things to do
Toronto is "the city within a park", with miles and miles of parkland following the streams and rivers that flow through the city. Edwards Gardens and the Toronto Botanical Gardens in the neighbourhood of North York might just be the place to start exploring this natural environment. The City of Toronto has designated various Discovery Walks which highlight the natural and human history of the region.
- 01Canadian National Exhibition
The Ex is an annual fair offering an amusement park (the Midway), a casino, live entertainment, an international market, agricultural exhibits including livestock and a variety of other exhibits.
- 02Fan Expo Canada
Canada's answer to the San Diego and New York Comic-Cons, Fan Expo Canada draws over 150,000 attendees each year to celebrate superheroes, science fiction, fantasy, and other popular franchises.
- 03Inside Out LGBT Film & Video Festival
180 Canadian ind international films and videos over ten days, produced by and about LGBT people.
- 04Toronto International Festival of Authors
Late October to early November, with related events throughout the year.
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Where to eat
Toronto is generally considered to be one of North America's top food cities. It has the same variety as New York or San Francisco and the compact and safe downtown keeps them closer together. As one of the most (if not the most) multicultural cities in the world, Toronto has authentic ethnic cuisine like no other city in North America. It is easy to eat out in Toronto and have a superb meal for cheap.
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Getting to Toronto
- Airports
- Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 20 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 69 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 95 km
- Stations
- Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, 3 km · Union Station, 800 m · TMU station, 500 m · Bloor–Yonge, 2.1 km · Union Pearson Express, 7.6 km
- Hamilton → Toronto13905 km · quickest by air, 29h 1m · NZ$3,050–4,710
- Windsor → Toronto333 km · quickest by air, 4h 32m · C$140–210
- Ottawa → Toronto349 km · quickest by air, 4h 36m · C$150–230
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Toronto
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Toronto. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA free ferry service also makes the short crossing: it is just 121 metres, the world's shortest regularly-scheduled ferry route.
- Get inTTC streetcars are available within a short walk from the mainland ferry terminal: Route 509 Harbourfront travels east along the waterfront (Queens Quay) to Union Station.
- Get aroundA visit to Toronto Islands from the ferry docks at the southern end of Bay Street is a great way to spend a bike-friendly, relaxed afternoon by bike.
- Get aroundThe trip to the Toronto Islands from the downtown core (Bay St and Queens Quay) is a pleasant 15-minute ferry ride, with frequent summer service and the best views of the Toronto skyline.
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Next door to Toronto
Toronto is 15 km from Etobicoke, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Yorkvilleneighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada2.1 km
- Metropolitan Torontohuman settlement6.1 km
- The Annexneighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada2.6 km