Hold on to your crumpets, because Iโm about to take you on a ride through the center of London, one Tube stop at a time!
First up, we have The City โ the OG square mile that the Romans called Londinium.
This financial district may be rich in history and architecture, but letโs be real, itโs not exactly the place to be for a wild night out.
Unless, of course, you find the idea of partying with a bunch of bankers and accountants to be your idea of a good time.
But fear not, my adventurous amigo, there are plenty of other neighborhoods in London that are sure to tickle your fancy.
So hop on the Tube and letโs explore this glorious city together!
London Neighborhoods Map

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West End
Where most of Londonโs main attractions are found, is unofficially bounded by the Thames to the south, Farringdon Road/Street to the east, Marylebone Road/Euston Road to the north, and Hyde Park and Victoria Station to the west.
Most visitors will spend their time in the West End, whether at Buckingham Palace, the British Museum, or the shops and theaters of Soho.
Youโll find the greatest concentration of hotels and restaurants in the West End.
Despite attempts to extend central Londonโs nocturnal life to the south side of the Thames notably the ambitious Southbank Arts Centre Londonโs energy fades when it crosses the river.

Still, the new urban development of Docklands, the tourist attraction of the Globe Theatre, and some up-and-coming residential neighborhoods are infusing energy into the area across the river.
Farther west are the upscale neighborhoods of Belgravia, Kensington, Knightsbridge, Chelsea, Paddington and Bayswater, Earlโs Court, and Notting Hill.
This is also prime hotel and restaurant territory.
To the east of the City is the
East End
which forms the eastern boundary of Inner London (Notting Hill and Earlโs Court roughly form the western boundary).
Inner London is surrounded, like a doughnut, by the sprawling hinterland of Outer London.
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๐ I boarded the wrong Shinkansen and ended up in THE WRONG CITY. I confused locals with my โexpertโ bowing that was more awkward than accurate. I accidentally stumbled into a high-stakes Kendo practice thinking it was a tourist show. Sound like something youโd do?
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London neighborhoods โ The City Map
When Londoners speak of โthe Cityโ (EC2, EC3), they mean the original square mile thatโs now the UK version of Wall Street.
The buildings of this district are known all over the world: the Bank of England, the London Stock Exchange, and famed insurance company Lloydโs of London.
The City was the original site of Londinium, the first settlement of the Roman conquerors.
Despite its age, the City doesnโt easily reveal its past.
Although it retains some of its medieval character, much of the City has been swept away by the Great Fire of 1666, the bombs of 1940, the IRA bombs of the 1990s, and the zeal of modern developers.
Landmarks include Sir Christopher Wrenโs masterpiece, St.
Paulโs Cathedral Which stood virtually alone in the surrounding rubble after the Blitz.
Some 2,000 years of history unfold at the Cityโs Museum of London and at the Barbican Centre
Opened by Queen Elizabeth in 1982.
Following the Strand eastward from Trafalgar Square, youโll come to Fleet Street.
In the 19th century, this corner of London became the most concentrated newspaper district in the world.
William Caxton printed the first book in English here, and the Daily Consort, the first daily newspaper printed in England, was launched at Ludgate Circus in 1702.
In recent times, however, most London tabloids have abandoned Fleet Street for the Docklands across the river.
Where the Strand becomes Fleet Street stands Temple Bar, where the actual City of London begins.
The Tower of London looms at the eastern fringe of the City, shrouded in legend, blood, and history, and permanently besieged by battalions of visitors.
The average visitor will venture into the City during the day to sample its attractions or to lunch at pubs such as Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese then return to the West End for evening amusement.
As a hotel district, the City wasnโt even on the map until recent times.
The opening of the Great Eastern Hotel Has brought a lot of business clients who prefer to stay here to avoid the traffic jams involved in getting into and out of the City.
Stay in the City if you would prefer a hotel in a place like New Yorkโs Wall Street to a midtown address.
If you canโt afford the Great Eastern, consider the cheaper Rookery in newly fashionable Smithfield.
The City lures hotel guests who prefer its quirky, quiet, offbeat flavor at night, when itโs part ghost town, part movie set.
There is some nightlife here, including pubs and restaurants.
Itโs fun to wander the area when all the crowds are gone, pondering the thought that youโre walking the same streets Samuel Johnson trod so long ago.
The City of London still prefers to function on its own, separate from the rest of London.
It maintains its own Information Centre at St.
Paulโs Churchyard, EC4 which is open daily from 10am to 5:50pm.
What are the neighborhoods of London?
The East End
Traditionally, this was one of Londonโs poorest districts, nearly bombed out of existence during World War II.
In the words of one commentator, Hitler created โinstant urban renewalโ here.
The East End extends east from the City Walls, encompassing Stepney, Bow, Poplar, West Ham, Canning Town, and other districts.
The East End is the home of the cockney.
To be a true cockney, itโs said that you must be born within the sound of the Bow Bells of St.
Mary-le-Bow church, an old church rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren in 1670.
These days, many immigrants to London make their homes in the East End.
London is pushing eastward.
Today youโll find lots of trendy bars, clubs, restaurants, and boutiques or vintage clothing outlets here.
Much of the fashionable life is found around Hoxton Square and its peripheries, such as Shoreditch and the northern half of Brick Lane.
There is an array of contemporary galleries in the area.
Brick Lane, incidentally, is a great place for some curry dishes if you can deal with all those waiters on the street trying to hustle you into their restaurants.
Attractions you may want to visit if youโre in the area include St.
Clement Danes church, the Temple of Mithras, and Sir Christopher Wrenโs Monument to the Great Fire of 1666.
Docklands
In 1981, in the most ambitious scheme of its kind in Europe, the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) was formed to redevelop Wapping, the Isle of Dogs, the Royal Docks, and Surrey Docks.
The area is bordered roughly by Tower Bridge to the west and London City Airport and the Royal Docks to the east.
Many businesses have moved here; Thames-side warehouses have been converted to Manhattan-style lofts and museums, entertainment complexes, shops, and an ever-growing list of restaurants have popped up at this 21st-century river city in the making.
Canary Wharf
on the Isle of Dogs, is the heart of Docklands.
This 28-hectare (69-acre) site is dominated by a 240m-high (787-ft.) tower, which is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, and was designed by Cรฉsar Pelli.
The Piazza of the tower is lined with shops and restaurants.
On the south side of the river at Surrey Docks, Sir Terence Conran has converted the Victorian warehouses of Butlerโs Wharf into offices, workshops, houses, shops, and restaurants.
Butlerโs Wharf is also home to the Design Museum Chances are, youโll venture here for sights and restaurants, not for lodging, unless youโve got business in the area.
The area is fun during the day and home to some of Londonโs finest restaurants, offering good food and a change of pace from the West End this is post millennium London, whereas the West End is the essence of tradition.
To get to Docklands, take the Underground to Tower Hill and pick up the Docklands Light Railway which operates Monday to Saturday from 5:30am to 12:30am, and from 7am to 11:30pm Sunday.
South Bank
Although not officially a district, this is where youโll find the South Bank Arts Centre The largest arts center in western Europe and still growing.
Reached by Waterloo Bridge (or on foot by Hungerford Bridge), it lies across the Thames from the Victoria Embankment.
Culture buffs flock to its galleries and halls, which encompass the National Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festival Hall and the Hayward Gallery.
Although its day as a top hotel district in London may come in a decade or so (since thereโs no room left in the West End), that hasnโt happened yet.
The South Bank is a destination for daytime adventures and for evening cultural attractions.
You may want to dine here during a dayโs or eveningโs exploration of the area.
Nearby are such neighborhoods as Elephant and Castle, and Southwark, home to Southwark Cathedral To get here, take the Tube to Waterloo Station.
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๐ I boarded the wrong Shinkansen and ended up in THE WRONG CITY. I confused locals with my โexpertโ bowing that was more awkward than accurate. I accidentally stumbled into a high-stakes Kendo practice thinking it was a tourist show. Sound like something youโd do?
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Clerkenwell
This neighborhood, north and a bit west of the City, was the site of Londonโs first hospital and is the home of several early churches.
St.
Bartholomew-the-Great Built in 1123, still stands as Londonโs oldest church and the best example of large-scale Norman building in the city.
In the 18th century, Clerkenwell declined into a muck-filled cattle yard, home to cheap gin distilleries.
During a 19th-century revival, John Stuart Millโs London Patriotic Club moved here in 1872, and William Morrisโs socialist press called Clerkenwell home in the 1890s Lenin worked here editing Iskra.
The neighborhood again fell into disrepair but has recently been reinvented by the moneyed and groovy.
A handful of hot restaurants and clubs have sprung up, and art galleries line St.
Johnโs Square and the border of Clerkenwell Green.
Lest you think the whole area has become trendy, know that trucks still rumble into Smithfield Market throughout the night, unloading thousands of beef carcasses.
Farringdon is Clerkenwell central Tube stop.
Kingโs Cross
Long a seedy area in the heart of London, Kingโs Cross is facing a massive regeneration program.
Millions of pounds are going into its decaying infrastructure.
The area is still far from chic, but was given renewed importance with the arrival of Eurostar, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link coming into St.
Pancras instead of Waterloo.
Because of this change in venue, itโs estimated that some 50 million passengers will pass through Kingโs Cross annually.
Six tubes now convene underneath Kingโs Cross Station, and it is the number-one connection hub enabling visitors to get to and from Gatwick and Heathrow airports.
St. Pancras
Alongside Kingโs Cross, St.
Pancras International is the new transport hub for Eurostar, bringing renewed life to this once-decaying part of London.
The station is to London what Penn Station was to New York, the finest architectural icon of the Age of Steam.
British poet John Betjeman called the 1868 structure, with its gargoyles and Gothic revival towers, โtoo beautiful and too romantic to survive.โ
He almost became a prophet in the 1960s when this landmark was slated for demolition until saved by preservationists.
Today the glamorous and vastly restored station is a dazzling entry point into Britain for those passengers arriving on Eurostar from the Continent.
Stay tuned for hotel, shopping, and restaurant developments to blossom around the station.
West End Neighborhoods
Bloomsbury
This district, a world within itself, is bound roughly by Euston Road to the north, Gower Street to the west, and Clerkenwell to the east.
It is, among other things, the academic heart of London.
There are three colleges in Bloomsbury, including University College London The grandest and the oldest.
A branch of the University of London is also here.
Writers like Virginia Woolf, who lived in the area (it figured in her novel Jacobโs Room), have fanned the neighborhoodโs reputation as a place devoted to liberal thinking, arts, and โsexual frankness.โ
The novelist and her husband, Leonard, were unofficial leaders of a group of artists and writers known as the Bloomsbury Group.
However, despite its student population, Bloomsbury is a fairly staid neighborhood.
The heart of Bloomsbury is Russell Square Whose outlying streets are lined with moderately priced to expensive hotels and B&Bs.
Itโs a noisy but central place to stay.
Most visitors come to see the British Museum One of the worldโs greatest repositories of treasures from around the globe.
The British Telecom Tower (1964) on Cleveland Street is a familiar landmark.
The Old Curiosity Shoppe Said to be the oldest shop in central London and the inspiration behind Dickensโs book of the same name, is found on Portsmouth Street.
Of all the areas described so far, this is the only one that could be called a hotel district.
Hotel prices have risen dramatically in the past decade but are nowhere near the levels of those in Mayfair and St.
Jamesโs.
Bloomsburyโs hotels are comparable in price to what youโll find in Marylebone to the west.
But Bloomsbury is more convenient at its southern doorstep lie the restaurants and nightclubs of Soho, the theater district, and the markets of Covent Garden.
If you stay here, itโs a 5-minute Tube ride to the heart of the action of the West End.
At the western edge of Bloomsbury youโll find Fitzrovia bounded by Great Portland, Oxford, and Gower streets, and reached by the Goodge Street Tube.
Goodge Street, with its many shops and pubs, forms the heart of the village.
Charlotte Street has good and varied restaurants catering to the local media companies.
Fitzrovia was once the stamping ground for writers and artists like Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and George Orwell, among others.
The bottom end of Fitzrovia is a virtual extension of Soho, with a cluster of Greek restaurants.
Holborn
The old borough of Holborn (Ho-burn), which abuts the City southeast of Bloomsbury, encompasses the heart of legal London, this is where youโll find the cityโs barristers, solicitors, and law clerks.
Still Dickensian in spirit, the area preserves the Victorian authorโs literary footsteps in the two Inns of Court (where law students perform their apprenticeships and where barristersโ chambers are located), featured in David Copperfield, and as the Bleeding Heart Yard of Little Dorrit fame.
The Old Bailey courthouse, where judges and lawyers still wear old-fashioned wigs, has stood for English justice through the years, Fagin went to the gallows from this site in Oliver Twist.
You might come here for some sightseeing, perhaps quenching your thirst in a historic pub.
Everything in Holborn is steeped in history.
For example, as youโre downing a half-pint of bitter at the Viaduct Tavern 126 Newgate St.
(Tube: St.
Paulโs), you can reflect on the fact that the pub was built over the notorious Newgate Prison.
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Before I landed in Tokyo, I thought I was the โFinal Bossโ of international travel. Spoiler alert: I WASNโT. ๐
๐ I boarded the wrong Shinkansen and ended up in THE WRONG CITY. I confused locals with my โexpertโ bowing that was more awkward than accurate. I accidentally stumbled into a high-stakes Kendo practice thinking it was a tourist show. Sound like something youโd do?
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Covent Garden & the Strand
The flower, fruit, and โvegโ market is long gone (since 1970), but memories of Professor Higgins and his โsquashed cabbage leaf,โ Eliza Doolittle, linger on.
Covent Garden contains the cityโs liveliest group of restaurants, pubs, and cafes outside Soho, as well as some of the cityโs hippest shops.
The restored marketplace here, with its glass and iron roofs, has been called a magnificent example of urban recycling.
Londonโs Theater district begins in Covent Garden and spills over into Leicester Square and Soho.
Inigo Jonesโs St.
Paulโs Covent Garden is known as the actorsโ church; over the years, it has attracted everybody from Ellen Terry to Vivien Leigh.
The Theatre Royal Drury Lane Was where Charles IIโs mistress, Nell Gwynne, made her debut in 1665 and was also where Irish actress Dorothea Jordan caught the eye of the Duke of Clarence, later William IV.
The Strand forms the southern border of Covent Garden.
Itโs packed with theaters, shops, first-class hotels, and restaurants.
Old pubs,ย Dr.
Johnsonโs House and tearooms fragrant with brewing Twinings English tea evoke memories of the rich heyday of this district as the center of Londonโs activity.
The Strand runs parallel to the Thames River, and to walk it is to follow in the footsteps of Charles Lamb, Mark Twain, Henry Fielding, James Boswell, William Thackeray, and Sir Walter Raleigh, among others.
The Strandsโ Savoy Theatre Helped make Gilbert and Sullivan household names.
Youโll probably come here for theater or dining rather than for a hotel room.
Covent Garden has few hotels (although those few are very nice).
I recommend the best ones.
Piccadilly Circus & Leicester Square
Piccadilly Circus, with its statue of Eros, is the heart and soul of London.
Its traffic, neon, and jostling crowds make circus an apt word to describe this place.
Piccadilly, which was the western road out of London, was named for the โpiccadilly,โ a ruffled collar created by Robert Baker, a 17th-century tailor.
If you want grandeur, retreat to the Regency promenade of exclusive shops, the Burlington Arcade Designed in 1819.
The English gentry tired of being mud-splashed by horses and carriages along Piccadilly came here to do their shopping.
Some 35 shops, offering a treasure trove of expensive goodies, await you.
A bit more tawdry is Leicester Square A hub of theaters, restaurants, movie palaces, and nightlife.
Leicester Square changed forever in the Victorian era, when four towering entertainment halls were opened.
Over time, the old entertainment palaces changed from stage to screen; today three of them still show films.
There are a few hotels here, although theyโre invariably expensive.
Stay here if youโd want a hotel in Times Square in New York.
Itโs convenient for those who want to be at the center of the action.
The downside is the noise, congestion, and pollution.
Soho
A confusing grid of streets crammed with restaurants.
Itโs a great place to visit, but you probably wonโt want to stay here (there arenโt many hotels, anyway).
These densely packed streets in the heart of the West End are famous for their cosmopolitan mix of people and trades.
A decade ago, much was heard about the decline of Soho with the influx of sex shops; even the pub where Dylan Thomas used to drink himself into oblivion became a sex cinema.
Since then, non-sex-oriented businesses have returned, and fashionable restaurants and shops prosper.
Soho is now the heart of Londonโs expanding gay scene.
Soho starts at Piccadilly Circus and spreads out, more or less bordered by Regent Street to the west, Oxford Street to the north, Charing Cross Road to the east, and the Theaters along Shaftesbury Avenue to the south.
Carnaby Street, a block from Regent Street, was the center of the universe in the Swinging โ60s but is now a schlocky tourist trap, though a few quality stores have opened recently.
Across Shaftesbury Avenue is
Londonโs Chinatown
Centered on Gerrard Street.
Itโs small, authentic, and packed with good restaurants.
Sohoโs heart featuring great delicatessens, butchers, fish stores, and wine merchants is farther north, on Brewer, Old Compton, and Berwick streets (Berwick St.
features a wonderful open-air fresh-food market).
To the north of Old Compton Street, Dean, Frith, and Greek streets have fine restaurants, pubs, and clubs.
The British movie industry is centered on Wardour Street.
The average visitor comes to Soho to dine because many of its restaurants are convenient to the theater district.
Most travelers donโt stay in Soho, but a certain action-oriented visitor prefers the joie de vivre of the neighborhood as compared to staid Bloomsbury or swank Mayfair.
Marylebone
West of Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia, Marylebone extends north from Marble Arch, at the eastern edge of Hyde Park.
Most first-time visitors head here to explore Madame Tussaudโs waxworks or walk along Baker Street in the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes.
The streets form a near-perfect grid, with the major ones running north-south between Regentโs Park and Oxford Street.
Architect Robert Adam laid out Portland Place One of the most characteristic squares in London, from 1776 to 1780.
At Cavendish Square, Mrs.
Horatio Nelson waited for the return of Admiral Nelson.
Marylebone Lane and High Street are home to some specialist boutiques and food shops.
Dickens wrote nearly a dozen books while he resided here.
At Regentโs Park You can visit Queen Maryโs Gardens or, in summer, see Shakespeare performed in an open-air theater.
Marylebone has emerged as a major โbedroomโ district for London, competing with Bloomsbury to its east.
Itโs not as convenient as Bloomsbury, but the hub of the West Endโs action is virtually at your doorstep if you lodge here, northwest of Piccadilly Circus and facing Mayfair to the south.
Once known only for its town houses turned into B&Bs, the district now offers accommodations in all price ranges, catering to everyone from rock stars to frugal family travelers.
Mayfair
Bounded by Piccadilly, Hyde Park, and Oxford and Regent streets, this is the most elegant, fashionable section of London, filled with luxury hotels, Georgian town houses, and swank shops.
The area is sandwiched between Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park.
Itโs convenient to Londonโs best shopping and close to the West End theaters yet (a bit snobbily) removed from the peddlers and commerce of Covent Garden and Soho.
One of the curiosities of Mayfair is
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Before I landed in Tokyo, I thought I was the โFinal Bossโ of international travel. Spoiler alert: I WASNโT. ๐
๐ I boarded the wrong Shinkansen and ended up in THE WRONG CITY. I confused locals with my โexpertโ bowing that was more awkward than accurate. I accidentally stumbled into a high-stakes Kendo practice thinking it was a tourist show. Sound like something youโd do?
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Shepherd Market
A village of pubs, two-story inns, restaurants, and book and food stalls, nestled within Mayfairโs grandness.
The hotels of Mayfair, especially those along Park Lane, are the most expensive and grand in London.
This is the place if youโre seeking sophisticated, albeit expensive, accommodations close to the
Bond Street
shops, boutiques, and art galleries.
Grosvenor Square (pronounced Grov-nor) is nicknamed โLittle Americaโ because itโs home to the American Embassy and a statue of Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Berkeley Square
(Bark-ley) was made famous by the song โA Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.โ Youโll want to dip into this exclusive section at least once.
St. Jamesโs
Often called โRoyal London,โ St.
Jamesโs basks in its associations with everybody from the โmerrie monarchโ Charles II to Elizabeth II, who lives at its most famous address, Buckingham Palace The neighborhood begins at Piccadilly Circusย and moves southwest, incorporating Pall Mall, The Mall, St.
Jamesโs Park and reen Park.
Itโs โfrightfully convenient,โ as the English say; within its confines are American Express and many of Londonโs leading department stores.
This is the neighborhood where English gentlemen seek haven at that male-only bastion of English tradition, the gentlemenโs club, where poker is played, drinks are consumed, and pipes are smoked (St.
Jamesโs Club is one of the most prestigious of these institutions).
Be sure to stop in atย Fortnum & Mason 181 Piccadilly, the worldโs most luxurious grocery store.
Launched in 1788, the store sent hams to the Duke of Wellingtonโs army and baskets of tinned goodies to Florence Nightingale in the Crimea.
Hotels in this neighborhood tend to be expensive, but if the Queen should summon you to Buckingham Palace, you wonโt have far to go.
Westminster
Westminster has been the seat of the British government since the days of Edward the Confessor (1042-66).
Dominated by the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey The area runs along the Thames to the east of St.
Jamesโs Park.
Trafalgar Square
One of the cityโs major landmarks, is located at the areaโs northern end and remains a testament to Englandโs victory over Napoleon in 1805.
The square is home to the landmark National Gallery, which is filled with glorious paintings.
Whitehall is the main thoroughfare, linking Trafalgar Square with Parliament Squareย You can visit Churchillโs Cabinet War Rooms and walk by
๐ผ I Wrote a Book About My Japan Travel Catastrophes!
Before I landed in Tokyo, I thought I was the โFinal Bossโ of international travel. Spoiler alert: I WASNโT. ๐
๐ I boarded the wrong Shinkansen and ended up in THE WRONG CITY. I confused locals with my โexpertโ bowing that was more awkward than accurate. I accidentally stumbled into a high-stakes Kendo practice thinking it was a tourist show. Sound like something youโd do?
โThings I Wish I Knew Before Going to Japanโ is your shortcut to avoiding ALL my cringe-worthy mistakes. โจ Inside, youโll find practical, LIFE-SAVING tips on etiquette, transport, money, and hidden gems that will save you time, money, and a whole lot of confusion.
Downing Street
to see Number 10 home to Britainโs prime minister (though the street itself is fenced in and guarded these days).
No visit is complete without a call at Westminster Abbey One of the greatest Gothic churches in the world.
It has witnessed a parade of English history, beginning with William the Conquerorโs coronation here on Christmas Day 1066.
Westminster also encompasses
Victoria
An area that takes its name from bustling Victoria Station, โthe gateway to the Continent.โ
Many B&Bs and hotels have sprouted up here because of the neighborhoodโs proximity to the rail station.
Victoria is cheap and convenient if you donโt mind the noise and crowds.
Welfare recipients occupy many hotels along Belgrave Road.
If youโve arrived without a hotel reservation, youโll find the pickings better on the streets off Belgrave Road.
Your best bet is to walk along Ebury Street, east of Victoria Station and Buckingham Palace Road.
Here youโll find some of the best moderately priced lodgings in central London.
Since youโre near Victoria Station, the area is convenient for day trips to Oxford, Windsor, or Canterbury.


