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Downtown Eastside

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Getting to Downtown Eastside

Airports
Vancouver (YVR), 12 km · Victoria (YYJ), 75 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 212 km
  • Victoria → Downtown Eastside
    96 km · quickest by road, 5h 7m · C$20–26
  • Kelowna → Downtown Eastside
    269 km · quickest by air, 4h 25m · C$130–200
  • Calgary → Downtown Eastside
    671 km · quickest by air, 4h 42m · C$170–260
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Downtown Eastside

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 Downtown Eastside. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTwo ferry operators provide similar service to Yaletown, Science World and the Olympic Village, with connections to Granville Island and Kitsilano (serviced only by False Creek Ferries).
  • Get aroundTrips by both ferry operators generally depart on a schedule of every 15 minutes from roughly 7:30 am to 8:00 pm.

From Wikivoyage: Vancouver/Yaletown-False Creek, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    33 km
  2. 0259 km
  3. 03
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    63 km
  4. 04
    Powell River and the upper Sunshine CoastCA

    12 ways of moving, 22 sources

    120 km
  5. 05
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    132 km

If you know how people move in Downtown Eastside – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Downtown Eastside

Downtown Eastside is 4 km from Vancouver, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.