A nice little sampling of the downtown core during your walk. There's a lot more to see that you didn't have time to get to (Stanley Park, Granville Island, Kitsilano, Olympic Village, the North Shore, etc) but you can only do so much in a few hours. The Dr. Sun Yat- Sen Gardens are very nice, but that's sort of just the periphery of Chinatown. You walked past the Jack Chow Insurance building on your way there - that's in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most narrow commercial building (about six feet across). If you noticed the Nesters Market or Woodward's signage walking between Gastown and Chinatown that was once the flagship of a beloved department store chain, Woodward's, which went out of business in the mid-1990s. After you got to Rogers Arena that area with the bronze statues is Terry Fox Plaza, named after the young one-legged athlete who attempted to run across Canada in order to raise funding for cancer research (only to unfortunately fall victim to the disease during the attempt). The brick building you were wondering about was originally the Northern Electric Company, built in 1928 but sold in 1957 to the Archdiocese of Vancouver. I was in there back when the 2010 Winter Olympics were on, watching a gold medal hockey game. It's being redeveloped as a mix of residential and commercial. You also went past the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library (the big building that looks a bit like the Coliseum in Rome), which is very impressive inside to see. Granville Street itself is a far cry from what it once was - the city's entertainment district. It used to be a vibrant hub of movie theaters, small businesses, eateries and night clubs. They still close it down during the summer every so often for street festivals.
Chinatown was much more vibrant 40 to 50 yrs ago with all the neon lights like Hong Kong . Sadly it’s been changed to a kind of characterless area with a lot of homeless people and drug addicts lurking around .
16:35 Cool steam clock! 27:09 Nice to see the Chinatown gate and the area! It's been so long since my last visit to Vancouver that I don't remember much of Chinatown, besides meeting the four Hong Kong celebrities when they operated their businesses in the 90s. This video makes me want to revisit even more now. Much appreciated to you for making a quick trip to Vancouver for this coverage, and I admire your dedication as always! 😎 Thank you for sharing this informative walk, AK! 🤗
Another one of my favorite cities. Walked over the bridge to Granville in the pouring rain when I was there, in strong winds. Not a great idea, but rain stopped once I got to Granville. Nice little area. Enjoy your walks, a real treat to revisit places I've been to before.
A generally safe & chill town (though a bit dicey in some areas). If they could only do something to get some low-cost housing going... and get more help for the drug addicts, and Canada's largest homeless population. :^{
Next time you come to Vancouver, make sure you do a walk in Richmond where all the Chinese/Asian shops are. Also check out Victoria Drive between 30th and 49th Avenue. That's were a lot of the shops that used to be in Chinatown have relocated. There are also some new Vietnamese restaurants on that street that serve food that is not pho.
Welcome to Vancouver!! Love your videos and im watching them again prepping / getting excited for my second trip to NYC in a couple of weeks! Hope you had a great trip in our city despite the weather being a bit iffy.
Welcome to my home town. Wish I was out there to say hello! Your NY guides really inspired me in both my trips there. Anyway stay safe out there! Check out Coal Harbour, Stanley Park Seawall, Denman St and then all the way up Robson St next time. Kitsilano and Granville Island are a must visit too.
0:45 Good Monday Afternoon My Friend IAM Hoping That You Are Having A Cherishing Day 1:27 I Really Enjoyed The Walking Tour Thank God You're Not Driving @ All The Gas There Is $7.90 Thank You So Much For Inviting All Of Us To Vancouver Canada To Walk Along With You Much Blessings And Love Always Ms British Gray From Tampa Florida
Enjoyable and relaxing walk in Vancouver , such a beautiful city😎 4:59 very nice Convention Center , nice station 12:33 and its cealing looks great , nice stores and reataurants along your walk , and that Steam Clock sure does look nice 16:43 😎Thank you for sharing this very enjoyable walk A K🙂👍!!!
Still here; still love your videos, but haven't commented in a while. I bought a Hohem gimbal and intend to record my own walks - for memories, not RUclips.
Sorry to say I find Vancouver a little generic looking and honestly outside of a few pocket areas like Stanley Park, not a very attractive city at all. Much of the architecture is very generic and there's just such a huge class divide. People are either hoity-toity granola eating urbanites or down on their luck poor drug addicts. There's no normal educated working class (or upper working class as I often call myself). Basically a person who wouldn't pay $7 for a coffee, yet at the same time isn't part of the homeless underclass either; just you know, a normal blue collar working class person that can afford to travel, to eat, to live in a house, but doesn't care about buying snobby goods either (designer clothes or $1000 cell phones every year). So I always feel really out of place there stuck between two extremes of class there. It's like you're either living in a $3000/month high rise condo tower, or you're living in the back alleyway shooting up in the back alleys off Hastings. There's hardly any in-between. I find Calgary the most attractive city in all of western canada; love Princes Island Park and Fish Creek parks, the beltline, sunnyside, an actual nice downtown, etc. Love visiting there, I highly recommend it.
I've noticed in my travels and seeing other videos online that Chinatowns outside of NYC and SF are just not that vibrant. Usually rather desolate, run down, or in this case in Vancouver, too clean. At least back in NYC, you still feel the hustle. The other Chinatowns feel like they have outlived their usefulness. Likely as Asian lives got better, they moved out to greener pastures and are more spread out.
Chinatown in Vancouver is only a few blocks away from the poorest postal code in Canada, the Downtown East Side. So many Vancouvererites prefer to venture into Richmond which has more of a vibrant Chinese community
Edmonton's Chinatown used to be great ,but now it's dangerous and run down because the city dumped so many homeless shelters right in the area. Also many Chinese Canadians live in nice new areas anywhere they want
@@vangary100 oh yeah, this 100% - we went last year for the Richmond night market when it was in season, definitely a vibrant Asian community in Richmond and growing it seems.
Welcome to British Columbia, homeboy!!! You should come to Vancouver Island/Victoria, take the Canada line to Bridgeport Station, then take the 620 Tsawassen Ferry and boom, you'll be on the Island. When you arrive take the 70 Express to Downtown Victoria! The entire trip takes 3.5 to 4 hours. I can even buy you a coffee at Starbucks here in Victoria lol
Vancouver si not a green city( almost no trees) , mainly concrete, cars ,noise and feels like any average north american city... everything is writen in Chinese ... We are in Canada and official languages are english and french ....very disappointing .... a mini Hong Kong
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Vancouver east side china town is hell, worst area in Canada.
A nice little sampling of the downtown core during your walk. There's a lot more to see that you didn't have time to get to (Stanley Park, Granville Island, Kitsilano, Olympic Village, the North Shore, etc) but you can only do so much in a few hours. The Dr. Sun Yat- Sen Gardens are very nice, but that's sort of just the periphery of Chinatown. You walked past the Jack Chow Insurance building on your way there - that's in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most narrow commercial building (about six feet across). If you noticed the Nesters Market or Woodward's signage walking between Gastown and Chinatown that was once the flagship of a beloved department store chain, Woodward's, which went out of business in the mid-1990s. After you got to Rogers Arena that area with the bronze statues is Terry Fox Plaza, named after the young one-legged athlete who attempted to run across Canada in order to raise funding for cancer research (only to unfortunately fall victim to the disease during the attempt). The brick building you were wondering about was originally the Northern Electric Company, built in 1928 but sold in 1957 to the Archdiocese of Vancouver. I was in there back when the 2010 Winter Olympics were on, watching a gold medal hockey game. It's being redeveloped as a mix of residential and commercial. You also went past the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library (the big building that looks a bit like the Coliseum in Rome), which is very impressive inside to see. Granville Street itself is a far cry from what it once was - the city's entertainment district. It used to be a vibrant hub of movie theaters, small businesses, eateries and night clubs. They still close it down during the summer every so often for street festivals.
Thanks for all the info, I’ll definitely have to revisit Vancouver again.
Such a small area covered. Didn't really showcase what Vancouver offers at all.
Chinatown was much more vibrant 40 to 50 yrs ago with all the neon lights like Hong Kong . Sadly it’s been changed to a kind of characterless area with a lot of homeless people and drug addicts lurking around .
16:35 Cool steam clock! 27:09 Nice to see the Chinatown gate and the area! It's been so long since my last visit to Vancouver that I don't remember much of Chinatown, besides meeting the four Hong Kong celebrities when they operated their businesses in the 90s. This video makes me want to revisit even more now. Much appreciated to you for making a quick trip to Vancouver for this coverage, and I admire your dedication as always! 😎 Thank you for sharing this informative walk, AK! 🤗
You’re welcome, it was so fun to see Vancouver for the first time and I definitely need to revisit
Another one of my favorite cities. Walked over the bridge to Granville in the pouring rain when I was there, in strong winds. Not a great idea, but rain stopped once I got to Granville. Nice little area. Enjoy your walks, a real treat to revisit places I've been to before.
Very cool! I’ll have to visit Granville in the future
A generally safe & chill town (though a bit dicey in some areas). If they could only do something to get some low-cost housing going... and get more help for the drug addicts, and Canada's largest homeless population. :^{
Watch out for needles & crack pipes.
yup and the yellers
They announced last week of a revitalize Gastown project. Fix the roads and maybe make it a traffic free zone. The SkyTrain sounds like a Tie Fighter.
Next time you come to Vancouver, make sure you do a walk in Richmond where all the Chinese/Asian shops are. Also check out Victoria Drive between 30th and 49th Avenue. That's were a lot of the shops that used to be in Chinatown have relocated. There are also some new Vietnamese restaurants on that street that serve food that is not pho.
Good information. cheers.
Welcome to Vancouver!! Love your videos and im watching them again prepping / getting excited for my second trip to NYC in a couple of weeks! Hope you had a great trip in our city despite the weather being a bit iffy.
Beautiful city.Vancouver.Thank you A.K. Nice walk😀
You’re welcome, thanks for watching!
I heard this all the times nowadays, Canadians and those immigrants are leaving Canada!
Hopefully housing gets cheaper then.
If they immigrated they aren’t just immigrants anymore, there Canadian’s, stop being ignorant
Saying THOSE immigrants just sounds yucky
Welcome to my home town. Wish I was out there to say hello! Your NY guides really inspired me in both my trips there. Anyway stay safe out there! Check out Coal Harbour, Stanley Park Seawall, Denman St and then all the way up Robson St next time. Kitsilano and Granville Island are a must visit too.
Thanks for all the suggestions!
The drive north up to Whistler is spectacular. I hope you have a chance to do it sometime.
That sounds great, I’ll have to check it out!
You went back,
Definite lack of dedicated cycling lanes. Thanks for another great tour you should be a tour guide.
Welcome to Canada A.K. 😊
Vancouver is way better then New York actionkid Kenneth
not at all. Vancouver is the worst of the major canadian cities imo
@@gerbilpmc no your wrong Vancouver is the far best city
So funny watching you walk my hometown, when I usually watch you walk the city I dream of living in!
Also you picked a good time to walk that area. Last year at this time, that walk down Abbott to Chinatown was extremely tragic
Much appreciated, I’ll have to come back to Vancouver sometime.
0:45 Good Monday Afternoon My Friend IAM Hoping That You Are Having A Cherishing Day 1:27 I Really Enjoyed The Walking Tour Thank God You're Not Driving @ All The Gas There Is $7.90 Thank You So Much For Inviting All Of Us To Vancouver Canada To Walk Along With You Much Blessings And Love Always Ms British Gray From Tampa Florida
Thank you so much for watching!
Just to be clear, you didn’t interact with any border patrol agents while getting to your car?
Enjoyable and relaxing walk in Vancouver , such a beautiful city😎 4:59 very nice Convention Center , nice station 12:33 and its cealing looks great , nice stores and reataurants along your walk , and that Steam Clock sure does look nice 16:43 😎Thank you for sharing this very enjoyable walk A K🙂👍!!!
My pleasure, it was cool to see Vancouver for the first time and get a taste of the city!
Went here again since covid, enjoy watching it
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Nice
A lovely part of Vancouver.
Still here; still love your videos, but haven't commented in a while. I bought a Hohem gimbal and intend to record my own walks - for memories, not RUclips.
Thanks for such an enjoyable experience. Really felt like I was there!
its' not nyc
It’s Vancouver
Hi AK I was at Vancouver and I didn't see you there well anyway I wanted to say that Vancouver is safe for you so I hope that you will be safe
If you have time ActionKid, we should meet for coffee and it would be good to meet some of your fans who live out this way.
Thank you this was a nice outsiders view and i enjoyed the walk as i wandered those streets is always nice to see the changes
Sorry to say I find Vancouver a little generic looking and honestly outside of a few pocket areas like Stanley Park, not a very attractive city at all. Much of the architecture is very generic and there's just such a huge class divide. People are either hoity-toity granola eating urbanites or down on their luck poor drug addicts. There's no normal educated working class (or upper working class as I often call myself). Basically a person who wouldn't pay $7 for a coffee, yet at the same time isn't part of the homeless underclass either; just you know, a normal blue collar working class person that can afford to travel, to eat, to live in a house, but doesn't care about buying snobby goods either (designer clothes or $1000 cell phones every year). So I always feel really out of place there stuck between two extremes of class there. It's like you're either living in a $3000/month high rise condo tower, or you're living in the back alleyway shooting up in the back alleys off Hastings. There's hardly any in-between. I find Calgary the most attractive city in all of western canada; love Princes Island Park and Fish Creek parks, the beltline, sunnyside, an actual nice downtown, etc. Love visiting there, I highly recommend it.
Thank you for all the tours,
Simply wonderful!!
You’re welcome, glad you like them
I've noticed in my travels and seeing other videos online that Chinatowns outside of NYC and SF are just not that vibrant. Usually rather desolate, run down, or in this case in Vancouver, too clean. At least back in NYC, you still feel the hustle. The other Chinatowns feel like they have outlived their usefulness. Likely as Asian lives got better, they moved out to greener pastures and are more spread out.
Chinatown in Vancouver is only a few blocks away from the poorest postal code in Canada, the Downtown East Side. So many Vancouvererites prefer to venture into Richmond which has more of a vibrant Chinese community
I’ve noticed the same thing too, many of the Chinatowns in North America are on the decline and losing their identity.
Edmonton's Chinatown used to be great ,but now it's dangerous and run down because the city dumped so many homeless shelters right in the area. Also many Chinese Canadians live in nice new areas anywhere they want
@@vangary100 oh yeah, this 100% - we went last year for the Richmond night market when it was in season, definitely a vibrant Asian community in Richmond and growing it seems.
Beautiful Views 😍
They really were!
I was born in Vancouver mean I love Vancouver!
Excellent
My hometown..👍
Nice walk
Hope to visit Vancouver one day! Looks pretty cool.
I’ll need to revisit as well
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Looks nice. Hope you had a fun time.
I did, I’ll have to revisit
Great walk. I’m Going next month . Thank you
Seems like every big city got a China town
Welcome to British Columbia, homeboy!!! You should come to Vancouver Island/Victoria, take the Canada line to Bridgeport Station, then take the 620 Tsawassen Ferry and boom, you'll be on the Island. When you arrive take the 70 Express to Downtown Victoria! The entire trip takes 3.5 to 4 hours. I can even buy you a coffee at Starbucks here in Victoria lol
Vancouver si not a green city( almost no trees) , mainly concrete, cars ,noise and feels like any average north american city... everything is writen in Chinese ... We are in Canada and official languages are english and french ....very disappointing .... a mini Hong Kong
granville street is a dump
No offense but looks like a freak show 😂 Thank God i don't live there.
Hater.
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granville street is skid row