Kinokuniya

City Centre & Haymarket


This outpost of the Japanese chain is the largest bookshop in Sydney, with over 300,000 titles. There's an excellent comics and magazine section and a cool little cafe, too, run by Black Star Pastry.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby City Centre & Haymarket attractions

1. Sydney Town Hall

0.06 MILES

Mansard roofs, sandstone turrets, wrought-iron trimmings and over-the-top balustrades: the French Second Empire wedding-cake exterior of the Town Hall …

2. St Andrew’s Cathedral

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Sporting beautiful stained glass and twin spires inspired by England’s York Minster, squat St Andrew’s Anglican is the oldest cathedral in Australia (1868…

3. Queen Victoria Building

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Unbelievably, this High Victorian Gothic masterpiece (1898) was repeatedly slated for demolition before it was restored in the mid-1980s. Occupying an…

4. State Theatre

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The ostentatiously ornate State (1929) is Sydney’s most beautiful theatre. Originally built as a movie palace during Hollywood’s heyday, it’s now a…

5. Great Synagogue

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The heritage-listed Great Synagogue (1878) is the spiritual home of Sydney’s oldest Jewish congregation, established in 1831. It’s considered the Mother…

6. Sydney Tower Eye

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The 309m-tall Sydney Tower (still known as Centrepoint by many Sydneysiders) offers unbeatable 360-degree views from the observation level 250m up. The…

7. Hyde Park

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Formal but much-loved Hyde Park has manicured gardens and a tree-formed tunnel running down its spine, which looks particularly pretty at night,…

8. Anzac Memorial

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This dignified art deco memorial commemorates WWI soldiers of the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs). The interior dome is studded with 120,000…