North Sydney

The City's Second Main Business Area

North Sydney is a three-minute train ride across the Harbour Bridge from the Sydney central business district, and is full of medium-rise office blocks.

On weekdays, North Sydney bustles with hurrying office workers, but on the weekends or after-hours, the area is next to dead. There is nothing to attract visitors here.

North Sydney is the last suburb on the Pacific Highway if you're driving south towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and the parking police (traffic wardens, who earn money for the local council) are as fierce as those the south side of Sydney Harbour. Incidentally, the Pacific Highway stretches all the way from the south end of Australia right up to the northern tip.

Far more pleasant to visit than North Sydney is nearby Milsons Point, from where you can walk back across the Sydney Harbour Bridge to Sydney city itself.