Harbour Centre Lookout
Ride the elevator 168 metres above Hastings Street and get an unobstructed 360-degree read of the entire city in one sweep.
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The Lookout observation deck sits atop a 28-storey office tower, with the Top of Vancouver revolving restaurant slowly rotating through the same panorama two floors higher. It was British Columbia's tallest structure by pinnacle height until Living Shangri-La opened in 2009. Waterfront Station — the hub for SkyTrain, SeaBus, and West Coast Express — is steps from the front door.
What to look for
- The revolving restaurant, claimed to occupy the 35th floor of a building with only 28 office floors — the tower extends well above its stated storey count
- Waterfront Station steps away from the entrance, where SkyTrain, SeaBus, and West Coast Express all converge in one multi-modal hub
- The Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre campus in the adjoining Spencer building — a full university tucked inside a downtown skyscraper
Address is 555 West Hastings Street; Waterfront Station is steps away and serves SkyTrain, SeaBus, and buses.
Harbour Centre Lookout is one of 13 sights worth the detour in Vancouver, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Vancouver pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Vancouver
- BC PlaceA stadium that broke the same world record twice — first with the largest air-supported roof ever built, then with the largest cable-supported retractable roof.
- Rogers ArenaBuilt for C$160 million and opened in 1995, this is the rink where Vancouver's hockey soul lives — and where the city briefly renamed it Canada Hockey Place for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
- Stanley ParkA thousand acres of old-growth forest on a downtown peninsula — bigger than Central Park, as old as Vancouver itself.
- Pacific ColiseumThe rink where Vancouver first played NHL hockey — and where 2010 Olympic skaters competed on the same ice.
- Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports CentreCanada's first national hockey team was born on this ice in 1963 — and the Vancouver Canucks still practice here.
- Richmond Olympic OvalThe rink where Olympic speed skaters raced in 2010 is now a public arena where you can climb a wall, row a tank, or lace up hockey skates — all under one roof.