# Toronto: map, what to do and when to go

Toronto is Canada's largest city and one of the cities with the most immigrants in the world, with almost half its residents born abroad. The capital of Ontario and Canada's financial center, it sits on a plain of gridded streets on Lake Ontario, cut by river valleys.

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## Direct answer
- **Toronto: how do you get from Pearson Airport to downtown?** The UP Express links the airport to Union Station in 25 minutes, with departures every 15 min, for C$9.25 with Presto.
- **Toronto: how do you get to Niagara Falls?** Niagara Falls is about 130 km to the southwest, 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours by car on the QEW; there are direct buses from Union Station and a seasonal GO train in about 2 hours.
- **Toronto: is the price tag the final price?** No: when you pay, add 13% HST to the price tag on almost everything, except raw market food.

## Downtown, the lake and the market
Take the ferry at the Jack Layton Terminal before 10am, disembark at Ward's Island and walk back along the islands' shoreline to Hanlan's Point, about 1 hour of walking with the skyline in front of you.
- CN Tower
- St. Lawrence Market
- Distillery District

## Museums, the university and Queen West
Start the day at the ROM, at Bloor and Queen's Park: Libeskind's Crystal (2007), the dinosaur galleries and the collection of Indigenous cultures of Canada.
- Toronto Islands

## Ravines, the east and the Don Valley
Take subway Line 2 to Broadview and walk across the Prince Edward Viaduct (1918), with views of the Don Valley and the Luminous Veil, installed in 2003.
- Casa Loma
- High Park and Evergreen Brick Works
- Scarborough Bluffs

## CN Tower
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Toronto · One to two hours
A 553.3 m communications tower completed in 1976, world record for a freestanding structure until 2007. The lookout is at 346 m, the glass floor at 342 m and the SkyPod at 447 m; the EdgeWalk lets you walk clipped to a rail on the outer edge, at 356 m. Ticket about C$45–65; book a time slot and go early.
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## Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
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Toronto · Half a day or more
Opened in 1914, it's Canada's largest museum, with about 13 million objects spanning natural history and world cultures. The facade of aluminum and glass crystals is the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, by Daniel Libeskind (2007), wedged forcibly into the original building. Set aside 3 hours.
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## Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
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The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) holds the country's largest collection of Canadian art, with the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, plus the Thomson collection of European art and ship models. Frank Gehry's 2008 renovation added the glass-and-wood gallery over Dundas and the spiral staircase. Admission is free for anyone 25 and under.
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## Casa Loma
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Toronto · Up to half an hour
A 98-room mansion built between 1911 and 1914 for financier Henry Pellatt, designed by E. J. Lennox in catalog-Gothic style. Pellatt went bankrupt and lost the house in under ten years. It has a 250 m tunnel linking the house to the stables, under Austin Terrace.
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## St. Lawrence Market
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The south market has operated on this site since 1803 and in the current building since 1902, built over the old 1845 city hall, whose portico is still embedded in the facade. It's where you eat the peameal bacon sandwich. Closed Mondays.
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## Distillery District
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Old Toronto
Thirteen acres of the old Gooderham & Worts, which in 1860 was the largest distillery in the British Empire; 40-odd Victorian industrial brick buildings, restored and closed to cars since 2003. It has served as a film backdrop for decades.
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## Toronto Islands
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An archipelago of 15 islands 1.5 km off the shore, car-free, reached by ferries from the Jack Layton Terminal (about a 15-minute crossing, about C$9 round trip). Ward's Island has 260 houses of permanent residents; Hanlan's Point has Canada's oldest clothing-optional beach and the 1808 Gibraltar Point lighthouse.
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## Nathan Phillips Square and the two city halls
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Toronto · Up to half an hour
The new city hall, by Finnish architect Viljo Revell (1965), is two curved towers of different heights embracing the disk-shaped council chamber; it won a competition with 520 entries from 42 countries. Across Bay Street stands the old city hall by E. J. Lennox (1899), in pink sandstone. The square has a skating rink from November to March.
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## High Park and Evergreen Brick Works
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High Park covers 161 ha, with Grenadier Pond and cherry trees donated by Japan in 1959, which bloom for about a week between late April and early May. In the Don Valley, Evergreen Brick Works occupies the brickworks that ran from 1889 to 1984 and supplied half the city's brick; today it has trails, a Saturday market and an exposed geological quarry.
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## Scarborough Bluffs
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Clay and sand cliffs up to 90 m high along 15 km of the eastern shore, a cut exposing 12,000 years of glacial sediment. The easiest access is Bluffer's Park, with a beach and parking; the upper edge, at Scarborough Bluffs Park, is unstable and lacks railing in several stretches.
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**Toronto: how do you get from Pearson Airport to downtown?**
The UP Express links the airport to Union Station in 25 minutes, with departures every 15 min, for C$9.25 with Presto.

**Toronto: how do you get to Niagara Falls?**
Niagara Falls is about 130 km to the southwest, 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours by car on the QEW; there are direct buses from Union Station and a seasonal GO train in about 2 hours.

**Toronto: is the price tag the final price?**
No: when you pay, add 13% HST to the price tag on almost everything, except raw market food.

**Toronto: what's winter like?**
Winter runs from December to March: an average of −5 °C in January, lows of −15 °C that the lake wind makes feel like −25 °C, and about 110 cm of snow a year spread across short snowstorms.

**Toronto: can I get off the streetcar in the middle of the avenue?**
Yes: when the streetcar opens its doors in the middle of the street, the cars behind it must stop by law until the last passenger reaches the sidewalk, so step straight onto the asphalt and cross without rushing.


## In the Nilo app
- Plan these 2 days on the map: https://nilopelomundo.com/en/app/guide/toronto/?utm_source=llm&utm_medium=markdown&utm_content=door-itinerary
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## Full editorial guide (Portuguese)
https://nilopelomundo.com/llm/toronto.md