George street
Galleries Victoria
Queen Victoria Building
The building is an attraction in itself. The site of a market place since 1810, its current Romanesque facade was completed in 1896 and was extensively restored in the late 1980s as a prestigious shopping center. 5 Floors of shopping. Don't miss the Christmas tree to Christmas, going through all the levels. Fashion, books, cafes, and a range of specialty and gift shops.
George Street
Along this section of road, you will find here the Queen Victoria Building, Galleries Victoria, Myer, Westfield, The Strand Arcade, The Apple Store, and many other speciality stores, selling fashion, electronics, gifts..
George St is the closest thing to Sydney's main street. It has a shopping strip between the Town Hall Park St and Wynyard Hunter St, about 10 minutes brisk walk. Along this section of road there are numerous fashion, technology and gift stores and malls including:
Strand Arcade
The last of the Victorian arcades to be completed in Sydney, home to a number of shopping levels featuring design, fashion, antiques and jewellery the arcade links George Street with the Pitt Street Mall.
Pitt street mall
Westfield City Centre
7 stories of Myer department store and a food court on the western side of the mall, and hundreds of specialty and fashion stores on the eastern side. Connects underground to the Queen Victoria Building.
Mid-City Centre
Castlereagh street and martin place
MLC Centre
A shopping arcade, primarily focused on luxury clothes and accessories, and a food court downstairs. Belinda in the MLC Centre stocks European designers that don't have standalone stores in Australia. Has some reasonable cafes in the courtyard facing Martin Place.
Castlereagh Street North from Market St and Martin Place between Castlereagh and George Sts. Home to a large concentration of fashion houses and big names including DKNY, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Ferragamo, Gucci, Bvlgari, Stefano Canturi and Chanel.
The CBD of Sydney is also the retail centre of the city, having the largest range of shops and outlets in a variety of settings.
Sydney's shopping is frequently concentrated within large city malls and arcades heavily interconnected mid-town through a number of underground walkways. There are also a number of recognised shopping strips. There are both premium and budget areas.
If you are shopping for supplies, the convenience stores, and even the city fruit stores can have up to three times mark-up over supermarkets. If you need to stock up on the basics, try Woolworths opposite Town Hall on George St or underground north of Wynyard Station, or Coles above Wynyard Station, or on the corner of King and George.
David Jones
86-108 castlereagh street, â+61 2 9266 5544, fax +61 2 9267 7326 (http://www.davidjones.com.au/). the city stores of this illustrious department store are on elizabeth street main store, women's fashion and market street men's fashion, homewares. in operation since 1838, david jones is not only australia's oldest department store, but also the oldest department store anywhere in the world still trading under its original name.