Hotels in Amsterdam

Best shopping streets in Amsterdam

Amsterdam is a developed yet a quite small city and you can conveniently browse along all the shopping streets of the city on foot. Buzzing with small shops, Amsterdam offers you a unique range of products and there are a number fo shopping streets across the city. The major ones include:

Kalverstraat
Being the busiest of all shopping streets of Amsterdam, Kalverstraat is usually crowded and the prices here are often on the higher side. There are two big shopping malls here, Kalvertoren and Magna Plaza and several big department stores including Bonneterie and the Bijenkorf.

Haarlemmerstraat
Newly developed, full of trendy yet inexpensive stuff, offering variety, this shopping street belongs to the younger generation who are trying new products and new shopping formulae. There are also many informal cafés and bars where you may take a break and renew your energy.

P.C.Hooftstraat
Quite expensive and posh, with modest architecture and the best shops in town, this area has world’s biggest brands, luxury clothes, shoes and cosmetics to offer.

Cornelis Schuytstraat
Nearby P.C.Hooftstraat, this expensive shopping street has a wide range of items to offer, right from best quality food, cosmetics, wine, but also best in Amsterdam flower shop, several design and gadgets shops and also good café.

Utrechtsestraat
It is a narrow and busy street, with little walking space, trams passing in the middle and noisy traffic, shops close to one another and is known for its design items, gadgets, shoes and clothes.