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Lonely Planet Pocket Seattle

Name: Lonely Planet Pocket Seattle
ISBN: 9781788687249

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Publisher

Lonely Planet

Year

2020

eBook ISBN

9781788687249

Print ISBN

9781787017535

Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront

Downtown Seattle is a standard (except with more hills) American amalgam of boxy skyscrapers and brand-name shopping opportunities. It is given welcome oomph by Pike Place Market, the city’s heart, soul and number-one must-see sight. The waterfront is home to kitschy tourist attractions and incredible Puget Sound views.

Seattle waterfront with downtown skyscrapers | JON HICKS/GETTY IMAGES ©

The Short List

APike Place Market Seeing, smelling and tasting the unique energy of this Seattle icon, from the charismatic fish throwers to the creative – but disgusting – gum wall.

ASeattle Art Museum Experiencing the latest surprise lighting up this constantly evolving museum.

ASeattle Great Wheel Viewing Seattle’s ongoing waterfront regeneration from inside an enclosed pod on this giant wheel.

Getting There & Around

d Sound Transit’s Central Link light-rail from Sea-Tac Airport has two downtown stations: Westlake, and University St and 3rd Ave.

j Streetcar service to South Lake Union from Westlake.

g You can get downtown easily from any part of Seattle by bus.

Top SightPike Place Market

A cavalcade of noise, smells, personalities, banter and urban theater sprinkled liberally around a spatially challenged waterside strip, Pike Place Market is Seattle in a bottle. In operation since 1907 and still as soulful today as it was on day one, this wonderfully local experience highlights the city for what it really is: all-embracing, eclectic and proudly unique.