Gastown
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest section of the Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest section of the Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.
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Worth seeing in and around Gastown
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.
- 01BC Place
BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Located at the north side of False Creek, it is owned and operated by the BC Pavilion Corporation, a Crown corporation of the province.
900 m · stadium at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 02Rogers Arena
Rogers Arena is a multi-purpose arena at 800 Griffiths Way in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Opened in 1995, the arena was known as General Motors Place from its opening until July 6, 2010, when General Motors Canada ended its naming rights sponsorship and a new agreement for those rights was reached with Rogers Communications.
800 m · sports arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 03Stanley Park
Stanley Park is a 405-hectare public park in British Columbia, Canada, that makes up the northwestern half of Vancouver's Downtown peninsula, surrounded by waters of Burrard Inlet and English Bay The park borders the neighbourhoods of West End and Coal Harbour to its southeast, and is connected to the North Shore via the Lions Gate Bridge. The historic lighthouse on Brockton Point marks the park's easternmost point.
2.7 km · park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 04Vancouver Art Gallery
The Vancouver Art Gallery is an art museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The museum occupies a 15,300-square-metre-building adjacent to Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, making it the largest art museum in Western Canada by building size.
700 m · art museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 05Lions Gate Bridge
The Lions Gate Bridge, opened in 1938 and officially known as the First Narrows Bridge, is a suspension bridge that crosses the first narrows of Burrard Inlet and connects the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, to the North Shore municipalities of the District of North Vancouver, the City of North Vancouver, and West Vancouver. The term "Lions Gate" refers to the Lions, a pair of mountain peaks north of Vancouver.
3.9 km · suspension bridge in Vancouver, Canada · Wikipedia - 06Vancouver Public Library
Vancouver Public Library is the public library system for the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2023, VPL had more than 4.6 million visits with patrons borrowing nearly 10.4 million items including: books, ebooks, CDs, DVDs, video games, newspapers and magazines.
700 m · public library system in British Columbia · Wikipedia - 07Living Shangri-La
Living Shangri-La is a mixed-use skyscraper in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the tallest building in the city proper, though not in the metro area, as Two Gilmore Place in Burnaby is taller as of its completion in 2024.
900 m · skyscraper in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 08Canada Place
Canada Place is a building situated on the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is home to the Vancouver Convention Centre East Building, the Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel, the Vancouver World Trade Centre, and the virtual flight experience Flyover in Vancouver.
400 m · building and cruise ship terminal in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 09Harbour Centre
Harbour Centre is a skyscraper in the central business district of Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which opened in 1977. The "Lookout" tower atop the office building makes it one of the tallest structures in Vancouver and a prominent landmark on the city's skyline.
100 m · Mixed-use skyscraper in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 10One Wall Centre
One Wall Centre, also known as the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre North Tower, is a 48-storey, 157.8 m skyscraper hotel with residential condominiums in the Wall Centre development at 1088 Burrard Street in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The tower was designed by Perkins+Will Canada, and completed in 2001, and went on to win the Emporis Skyscraper Award for the Best New Skyscraper the same year.
1.3 km · Skyscraper hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gastown
- Airports
- Vancouver (YVR), 11 km · Victoria (YYJ), 75 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 213 km
- Stations
- Pacific Central Station, 1.5 km · Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, 2.2 km · Vancouver Harbour Water Airport, 1.1 km
- Victoria → Gastown96 km · quickest by road, 5h 7m · C$20–26
- Kelowna → Gastown270 km · quickest by air, 4h 24m · C$130–200
- Calgary → Gastown672 km · quickest by air, 4h 41m · C$170–260
- 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 Gastown
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 Gastown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSouth of downtown, in False Creek, two ferry operators provide similar routes serving Yaletown and False Creek, including Science World and the Olympic Village, with connections to Granville Island and Kitsilano (this destination only by False Creek Ferries).
- Get inFerry operators in False Creek: Driving into and around downtown isn't usually a problem outside of rush hour, but it can be a nuisance (particularly parking), so your best bet is to leave your car outside of the city centre to take public transit.
- Get around250 - Between downtown Vancouver and Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal in West Vancouver with a stop along the way at Park Royal Mall in West Vancouver.
- Get around257 - Limited stop route between downtown Vancouver and Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal in West Vancouver with a stop along the way at Park Royal Mall in West Vancouver.
- Get aroundFerries depart every 15 minutes for much of the day and every 30 minutes in the evening.
From Wikivoyage: Vancouver/City Centre, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Gastown – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Gastown
Gastown is 4 km from Vancouver, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Vancouverlargest city in the province of British Columbia, Canada2.7 km
- West Endneighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada1.7 km
- Downtown Vancouverneighbourhood of Vancouver, Canada700 m
- Chinatownneighborhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada1 km
- 2010 Olympic Villagehuman settlement in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada1.6 km
- Coal Harbourneighborhood of Vancouver metro area, Canada1.4 km