The Eaton Centre ~ Toronto Attraction

The Eaton Centre

If you have ever been thinking if there is something outside the US, surely there is at the borderlines, the great Toronto Attractions that offers you amazing sights to enjoy each and every moment of your time here. There are multiple options and thousands of things to see here, so no matter even if you dedicate one month to visit all the places here you would face a shortfall of time.

The sprawling city of Toronto offers you amazing sight seeing along with varied downtown attractions and midtown boast of the best attractions of the place with wonderful accessible areas within the city limits. The visitors here enjoy every bit of the time with all new renovated and expanded Art galleries of Ontario. The other major prime most Toronto Attractions here are the Royal Ontario Museum, the Ontario Science centre and the Gardiner Museum and other completely renovated places of importance. Every single location in Toronto might take up an entire day, some of such locations hare Ontario Science centre, paramount Canada's wonderland and the Harborfront that is one of the best mind relaxing locations.

Given below is the list of the most exciting Toronto Attractions that are visited by millions of people every year, Toronto as a city possesses a vibrant mix of culture and history along with commercial importance of the place. Each of the locations stated below are easily accessible from Union Station in downtown Toronto that takes a 20-minute walk:

The Eaton Centre - the Eaton centre is one of the brightest and airy shopping mall that is located in the heart of downtown that has more than 250 stores of different brands worldwide. This place is best suitable for spendthrifts as it offers lots of budget shopping elements. The popular locations at downtown are the CN tower and the Eaton centre amongst the tourists.

Is a galleria mall featuring 320 shops and restaurants, 17 cinemas and a 400 room Marriott Hotel located in the heart of downtown Toronto. The mall boasts sales of $746 per square foot of retail space - the highest in North America - and was one of the first major "downtown" shopping malls on the continent. The Eaton Center is the number one tourist attraction in Toronto with more than 1,000,000 visitors a week.

Depending on the outcomes of the upcoming elections, it’s quite possible that many of us will find on Wednesday that some of our friends are Canadaphiles, or people who have an extreme fondness for (and in many cases, harbor empty threats to move to) Canada. Truth be told, there’s plenty to love about our great neighbor to the north, especially if you have an interest in malls and retail. Sure, they call Kmart “Zellers” (though they’re no longer the same company), and instead of TJMaxx, they have Winners. But in Canada, practically every major shopping center is enclosed (as a sweeping generalization!) and one of the largest malls in the world (The West Edmonton Mall) is up in the great white north.

Toronto’s Eaton Centre is perhaps Canada’s second-most famous shopping mall. Located in the center of the city between Yonge, Queen, Dundas, and Bay Streets, the 330-store center is the most popular tourist attraction in Toronto, Canada’s largest city. The mall stands on the site of the original flagship Eaton’s store, which was once one of Canada’s premier department store chains. The mall itself, along with the modern 1,000,000 square-foot Eaton’s flagship store, opened in 1977, with a second phase following in 1979. The mall immediately became one of the most successful in North America, and (as required by the city of Toronto), the mall’s interior remains open 24 hours a day since its construction userped several public streets.

The mall’s greatest feature is perhaps its vaulted glass ceiling, which stands an astonishing 127 feet above the first level. It’s easily one of the tallest and grandest malls that I’ve seen, and its busy, active Yonge Street frontage (which is the closest that Canada has to a “Times Square” district) is a sight to behold at night.

The mall today includes Sears (who purchased the bankrupt Eaton’s in 1999, and rebranded them 2001 or 2002ish), H&M, Canadian Tire, and Best Buy spread across 1,600,000 square feet. The Eaton Centre is also connected via skywalk to the nearby flagship of The Bay (or, in Quebec, La Baie), also known as The Hudson’s Bay Company, one of Canada’s largest remaining department store chains.