KINGS CROSS Sydney Walking Tour, Potts Point NSW Australia

Walking from Kings Cross train station to Darlinghurst Road, El-Alamein Memorial Fountain (Fitzroy Gardens / Kings Cross Fountain), Macleay Street (walked on both sides) & Darlinghurst Road (walking to The Iconic Kings Cross Coca-Cola Sign)
Kings Cross is an inner-city locality of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately 2 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Sydney.
Colloquially known as The Cross, the area was once known for its music halls and grand theatres. It was rapidly transformed after World War II by the influx of troops returning and visiting from the nearby Garden Island naval base. It became known as Sydney's night entertainment and red-light district; however, many nightclubs, bars and adult entertainment venues closed due to the Sydney lockout laws. Today, it is a mixed locality offering services such as a railway station, gyms, supermarkets and bakeries as well as entertainment venues including bars, restaurants, nightclubs, brothels and strip clubs.
Kings Cross is not an officially designated suburb of Sydney, but rather a locality encompassed entirely by the suburbs of Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay. Kings Cross is a commercial area that is dominated by bars, restaurants, nightclubs, strip clubs and adult bookstores.
Kings Cross railway station is situated beneath Darlinghurst Road and the Garden Island facility of the Royal Australian Navy sits on the north end of Potts Point.
Potts Point is a small and densely populated area in inner-city Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Potts Point is located 2 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney.
Potts Point sits on a ridge immediately east of Woolloomooloo, west of Elizabeth Bay and Rushcutters Bay and north of Darlinghurst. The suburb has a roughly trapezoidal shape, and at its greatest extent is no more than one kilometre long by 200 metres wide.
Kings Cross railway station is an underground station at Potts Point, on the Eastern Suburbs railway line of the Sydney Trains network. The area is well served by buses, with routes 200, 311, 324, and 325, and night-time routes 300 and N91, passing through Potts Point.
The El Alamein Memorial Fountain is a heritage-listed fountain and war memorial located at Macleay Street in the inner Sydney locale of Kings Cross in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by the Australian architects Robert Woodward and Phill Taranto as employed by architectural firm Woodward and Woodward. The fountain was built from 1959 to 1961. It is also known as El Alamein Fountain, Fitzroy Gardens Group, Kings Cross Fountain and King's Cross Fountain. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 14 January 2011. The El Alamein Fountain was commissioned as a memorial to soldiers who died in 1942 during World War II in two battles at El Alamein, Egypt.
The Coca-Cola Billboard in Kings Cross, Sydney, usually referred to by Sydneysiders simply as "The Coca-Cola Sign" or "The Coke Sign", is an advertising billboard erected in 1974 by the Coca-Cola Company. It is more often regarded as an iconic landmark than as an advertisement. Commercially, it is considered to be the premier billboard in Sydney and is the largest billboard in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Coca-Cola sign is located above the intersection of William Street and Darlinghurst Road and is attached to the Zenith Residences, formerly the Millenium Hotel and Kingsgate Hotel. The sign is often referred to as The Gateway to the Cross, because it is prominently visible from all of William Street, which is the principal road leading to Kings Cross from the Sydney CBD. One also must pass directly in front of the sign when entering Kings Cross from either William Street or Darlinghurst Road, the two main access roads. The billboard is made up of two parts: on the right, the famous red and white neon sign, and on the left the more modern, flex-faced sign. In total the sign is 41 metres in length and 13 metres in height, with the right sign being slightly larger at 21 metres in length.
The red and white neon sign is made up of eighty-eight vertical bars of red tubing. It also has 800 fluorescent lamps that are concealed behind reflectors that allow the billboard to project thirteen different patterns.
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[@wampuscat7433]

Ah yes, the El Alemain fountain! Brings back wonderful memories of my visit(s) in 1968 while on RNR from Vietnam. I stayed in KC, and loved every minute of it. Wonderful, friendly people. I swear I was treated much better in Sydney than I ever was back in the States. Thank you Australians for making life long happy memories during dark times for me.

[@K-SD-DAD]

Americans are pissed off all the time.

[@thimfook7653]

thanks for the info on El Alemain fountain, John. So it was there since 1968 then i would have seen it in 1970

[@stefanblois7275]

It has changed a lot over the years

[@christopherkoulouris3118]

I've lived over half my life in NYC, but everytime I go walking down the Xross' and Potts Point and catch the sound of gallahs, cockatoos and the careless chatter of fellow Aussies I stop to think .. great to be back home

[@muratkaraali5704]

I spent a few weeks in Sydney back in november 1992. Loved it. I could tell at 27 min that the road would go up on the left and that you would arrive to a huge avenue on your right. At 26 min 35, what is the name of that street? This is where most where I stayed because most of the backpackers hostels were in that street back then.

[@IranTourism_official]

Nice place to walk around.. beautiful ambiance

[@VirtualToursTravel]

This is awesome! King Cross Sydney is a place I wanna live in! Thank you so much for sharing this amazing video! :)

[@MoreLocations]

Thanks for watching 😊

[@robman2095]

The trees really help to make the atmosphere of the place

[@neilpatricktanchotin8848]

Literally saying, when I'm stressed, I always watched your videos. It feels back when I used to walk in the city alone. Thank you for sharing more videos everyday.

[@MoreLocations]

You're welcome! Thanks for your comment. I am glad to hear that. Thank you 😊

[@neilpatricktanchotin8848]

Merrylands soon please. Thank you 😊

[@MoreLocations]

I will walk around Merrylands one day. Thank you 😊

[@neilpatricktanchotin8848]

Thank you from the Philippines 🇵🇭

[@neilpatricktanchotin8848]

I keep coming back. Nostalgic.

[@berkovac388]

I was there in 2002,it changed a lot.Many memories come to me.

[@ajithreddy5491]

Excellent..Happy to see sydney streets.King cross

[@NewWalker]

Such a beautiful day in Sydney and lovely walking tour !! Awesome experience to explore your city and I enjoyed it 😊👍

[@MoreLocations]

Thank you 😊

[@ATat-oz1to]

I used to work at Derlinghurst Road and lived on Victoria Street. It's been a long time.

[@TheJson8]

Sydney and Australia feel like home to me. Unfortunately no trip back this year. I so appreciate and look forward to your videos. Many thanks.

[@MoreLocations]

You're welcome! Wish you all the best 🙏. Thank you 😊

[@tdb7992]

Where are you from? I'm glad you enjoyed Sydney. Did you manage to see any other parts of Australia?

[@TheJson8]

I have been to Cairns ,Port Douglas . Melbourne and Gold coast which I loved as well. Love Australia overall. But my heart is in Sydney.

[@WalkingAroundIndonesia]

It's always such a pleasure walking with you in King Cross.. Jakarta have Coca Cola Crossing.... Thank you 😷🙏

[@MoreLocations]

Thanks for visiting my friend 🙏😊

[@gore1089]

Kings Cross former entertainment precinct.. now Sydney's premier retirement village.. Sydney certainly has changed.

[@sabiralihealthcare]

I love Australia

[@rumahkucingtakbertuan]

It reminds me of the late of my husband. Were were walking around that area. Australia is my second country

[@nigelhorsley7395]

Brings back memories of January just gone. Stayed nor far from here and Kings Cross was our local station.

[@WalkandTravelTV]

Beautiful ambiance! Excellent walking tour! thank u for sharing. Like from walking in Russia👍🚶

[@MoreLocations]

Thank you friend 🙏😊

[@thimfook7653]

Good walk. My first walk on Kings Cross was exactly fifty years ago, my first visit to Sydney. Though the iconic fountain had been there long time ago but I cannot remember if it was fifty years ago :)

[@glenemma1]

Another great video. I always thought Kings Cross would be a lot wilder being the Red Light district of Sydney. It looks quite clean and civilized.

[@SevenCostanza]

that was back in the 90's. everything is expensive and yuppie now. no more seedy areas

[@Ahreigh]

It used to be 10 years ago before lock out laws. It was huge, people everywhere, every night. It was iconic, so sad to see it decline

[@micheleboyd4993]

It used to be and had waaay more character, all gone I'm afraid. Looks like cement blocks. Luckily I grew up in the seventies when there where fabulous clubs and cafés..I moved to Europe when I was young and travelled back and forth for quite awhile. For me the magic is gone such a shame...but growing up there it was all about the dance,theatre and music...Oxford St was parrrty with great gay bars and fantastic shows at Kinsellas where I worked....Great times!

[@Globalmilitarydata]

Clean and healty,, love from your Indonesia 🇮🇩 supporter ✊

[@jonathanconx2197]

At 1997 i arrived in sydney and live in kings cross. Kingscross and potts point is one of the most beautiful place to live in sydney.

[@ashdog236]

I love how dense and old school Sydney’s inner city is, Melbourne city is similar but Sydney’s on another level with cities like London, etc. I was 18 when I first went to Kings cross and it’s was a Saturday night, wow, I’ll never forget that night. Sad that Kings cross is dead now with the lock out laws, Sydney city really needs to re think it’s lock out laws cos it’s making the city deserted.

[@jochenstossberg5427]

The lock out law have prevented unprecedented violence and street crime in this area. The Cross was seriously dangerous before they were put in place. I don't want to go back to a time when innocent kids from the suburbs looking for a night out were being murdered by thugs in the main street. Do you? This is what was happening. Time for Sydney to grow up I think. You should be able to have a great night out without risking your life.

[@kebabremover6024]

@@jochenstossberg5427 but in the same breath we can't become a nanny state, young men and women get killed in car crashes we can't expect people to stop driving

[@ashdog236]

@@jochenstossberg5427 I know why the lock out laws were in place but if people are going to murder people, time of the day doesn’t matter. Wow some people love a nanny state controlling them.

[@gazzablanca]

That Raben Footwear has been there for yonks. I remember buying Doc Martins there in '89.

[@nickspua1096]

I miss you Sydney.

[@uddinislah3042]

wow beautiful amazing

[@shortkoreatravel]

Sydney!

[@luchocastano740]

Good memories!! Thanks for this!

[@MoreLocations]

You're welcome! Thank you 🙏😊

[@AmbientWalking]

Super interesting! Really nice to experience this with you. Thanks!

[@justynkettell1864]

That sushi stand in the station has great deals around closing time

[@cousy65nc61]

Did that walk a few times when I visited Sydney . Stopped on Macleay st . Just off Darlinghurst road

[@cryzau4292]

A nice and sunny spring day in sydney! 👍😊

[@evogardens]

Its been many moons since I've been to the Cross. As a teenager, my mates and I would drive through the Cross and check out the hookers and weird looking people. @24.26 the " Happy Hockers" shop....they made a t.v series about that place called "Pawn stars Australia" Its changed a lot now. Thanks for the walk ! 👍🇦🇺 Jim.

[@MoreLocations]

Thanks for sharing your experience! I love reading your story. Thank you 🙏👍🏻😊

[@topshiba293]

Did you ever make it to the Piccolo bar for a spliff?

[@evogardens]

@@topshiba293 Nah, we never got out of our cars.

[@robertedwards4726]

Stayed in the cross in 89 backpacking,great times.

[@eddieed3647]

Hello, Kingcross !

[@redgreen610]

I lived in King's Cross for 6 months back in 1986 when I was 23. I remember coming out of that subway out into a very different world (just arriving from New Zealand where everything closed on Sundays). I had just graduated from uni and I first lived in a back packers and eventually rented a flat in a building (probably at least 100 years old) right opposite Hyde Park. Kings Cross looks really beautiful now. It was lined with prostitutes and strip clubs and I knew I was part of the community when I no longer got hustled as I walked those streets. I remember going to the "Bottoms Up Bar" by the fountain with other travellers and then understanding the obvious play on words as it dawned on me that it was not a straight bar! I became friends with travellers from all over the world, I learned how to instal suspend ceilings (actually put one in the building behind the Coke sign), and really loved being there enjoying my freedom and youth. I bought a 1970 Holden HG panel van which broke down once on the Harbour Bridge. I replaced the engine in a vacant lot and I drove that thing to Melbourne, then all the way up to Cape Tribulation and then to Darwin before leaving for Bali. Loved the Australian people and their country. Thanks for post. I guess retiring this year and covid have made me think of better times in my youth. It was great to see Kings Cross again!

[@MoreLocations]

I enjoyed reading your story. Thank you so much for sharing story and experience. Wish you all the best 🙏😊

[@boofiecat290]

Great video, just like being there. Hope you make lots more. Cheers from Brisbane

[@MoreLocations]

Thanks for your comment. I will make more walking tour videos. Thank you 🙏😊

[@cjjuddaustralianartist]

I lived in K'X for 18 months way back in the 80's in a huge block on Orwell street. It was hell. Before that I was a musician and used to busk at night on darlinghurst road at nigth With Keith Stirling walking past me and stopping to have a yarn, also Ken James the tenor Saxophonist of amazing talent and fame. I basked on KX streetes during new yaeR'S EVE SOME TIME IN THE 80'S can't remember precisely any more, it's been so long now, but yeah. I remember Joe Lane the jazz singer, Wendy Saddington, Co Caine aka Company Cayne, they played at the Arts FaCTORY iN gOULBOURN sTREET sYDNEY. I believe I'm alone in these memories now. Time passes you know? Please excuse the typos, I've been drinking some, you know? Fprgive me, I'm getting old now. Yeah... also I was a biker, and would oten stop to catch up with Animal, RIP. ten stop to t

[@edwardruter4098]

January 2022 am ready for Sydney ✈️✈️👍🏾👍🏾🇭🇲🇭🇲

[@veroniquedumont3205]

Last time i went there was in 1994..so great to see it again💓😍

[@tdb7992]

It has changed A LOT since then. It's almost completely different. Because there were so many drunken fights the government introduced "lock out laws" that severely limited the nightlife in the Cross. Now it's really regenerated and cleaned up. Even the gay guys have moved on to other party friendly places. That said, the X can still be very seedy in some areas.

[@user-mq2xq8mx3j]

14 springfield ave, I had lived there for one year just 50 years ago when I was 23. I love oz.

[@davechristian7543]

this place has gone to the dogs sadly, wat a great place it was in the 70s 80s n even the 90s.

[@Ahreigh]

Even in the 2000’s and early 2010’s the nightlife was huge.. really sad to see it decline

[@rohinichauhan2000]

Very nice video, good shooting videos, so clear, keep rocking 🤘 🙏🏻🇮🇳

[@MoreLocations]

Thank you 🙏😊

[@rohinichauhan2000]

@@MoreLocations welcome 👍🤘🇮🇳🙏🏻loved it, watching your videos

[@harmanchopra5885]

Awesome video

[@liars6495]

7:13 he he this is wonderful

[@620803]

Nice my friend …good place

[@agoogleuser6892]

I like the new kings cross more!

[@technicalsaddmanofficial]

good video

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

I packed my job in in 95 and got a work visa for oz bought a one way ticket stopping off in Thailand, I arrived in kings cross on my own at 24 years old and wow what an eye opener that place was..As a kid dreaming of Australia I got the shock of my life to see drugged up transvestites fighting in the street etc..Sure was a lively place, loved the park there too

[@HendraGunawanITB]

Come back in the evening :-)

[@sioliaka3360]

Very nice place King Cross😍 (1991)

[@Spiked2005]

None of this existed back when I lived in Sydney, those days the yanks ran the bars for troops on R-n-R from Vietnam War

[@johnterry3312]

Weren't they all owned by gangsters Lenny Mcpherson and Abe Saffron who were both Australian?

[@user-mq2xq8mx3j]

Does anyone knows Appin private hotel. I stayed there and found a half penny mintted in 1940, which is still with me and one more still with me is a 50 cents coin mintted in 1970 carved Capten Cook and Australia. I like this coin very much, very attractive design. Working mostly in Lidombe, but every day I commuted from Kings Cross in 1971. Since then twice I visited Sydney, but I would like to make a final visit there and walk around Sydney.

[@sandeepk9418]

God I miss kings cross.

[@kevinreed9232]

Good video thank you.

[@kebabremover6024]

How famous is this area? Is this place legendary? I was a backpacker from the uk and here in 2005 and didnt realise how famous this place was? When I went here I drank from 10pm to 10am, crazy nights! Looks alot more calmer now

[@gabrielzachary5804]

yeah was wild with more character, unfortunately the lock out laws killed Sydney's nightlife, to this day it hasnt recovered.

[@tdb7992]

It has changed A LOT! Originally it was Sydney's first gay district, but the American soldiers during the Vietnam war came to the area to relax, and brought heroin with them. It then became more accosiated with drugs and drunken youth, so the gays moved south to Oxford street. It cleaned up in the eighties and was just a big party area with lots of backpackers and locals. Now it's mostly gentrified to hell and back. And now the same thing is happening to Oxford street. So sad.

[@kstang61]

Not sure when the Coca cola sign board was put up but they were already there since the early 80s

[@wazzup9723]

Haven't been to KingsX for over 25+ years. Is the "The Bourbon" ............ the Bourbon and Beefsteak Hotel ?

[@jasmine-maybroughton8190]

Wow I saw the street I lived on in the 70s Crick Ave..

[@samjewellery3336]

Two decade ago I was there,now seems area is changed for very much better

[@soldadomax7392]

Nice vídeo.

[@MoreLocations]

Thank you 😊

[@1000guy1]

I love kings cross

[@nswtrains3153]

Really 😬

[@1000guy1]

@@nswtrains3153 yes

[@bandiceet]

It has been a very long time since the last I was in Sydney, I heard they have really cleaned up Kings Cross from the old days. Is that right?

[@topshiba293]

CORRECTOMUNDO! Place is shit now.

[@bandiceet]

@@topshiba293 i know they tried to clean the place up about 20 years ago, make it a place to out out for dinner, and the like. What changed?

[@topshiba293]

@@bandiceet They introduced the lockout laws from the bars and killed the nightlife. Also all the drugs and prostitution disappeared , police crackdowns etc.,while property prices went up , new developments as well,so only people with money can live there now, well , that’s my opinion anyway. I grew up in Darlinghurst for the first 16 years of my life. Saw some REAL shit.

[@e23daniel]

@@topshiba293 " property prices went up" is the reason why the lock out law made by gov

[@user-yh2bn2fg1j]

I miss sydney 😭

[@itthafrauf8516]

Any brothels there?

[@geod3589]

At 26:56.. the building center-left with streets on each side.. what is the name of that building? I remember that landmark but it's been too long to remember what it is.

[@michaelpollard4219]

I THINK THAT WAS THE FIRE STATION

[@walkandrelaxvideos4351]

The Bourbon still exist👍

[@seansh8485]

Peacefull city..how many population of sydney?

[@agoogleuser8203]

5 million

[@samjewellery3336]

If you not graduated from Kings cross,you don't know about sydney.thats how it was fifteen years ago.

[@J_S209]

Saturday Night ...... do do do do do do dah

[@liars6495]

6:44 what kind of Exotic bird is that ? Lol

[@sam_ausnsw8486]

U want to go at friday night to see the real face of kingscross

[@FelipeUebio]

I felt in love with a girl smoking a cigarette at 4:55 ❤ Somebody help me, please.

[@YesYesYoureRight]

10:14 - Hurry up - catch up to that bloke with the hairy legs, he's still on the corner !

[@prachompuengpun5226]

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[@cristinaborges3792]

👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷👏👏👏👏

[@MoreLocations]

Thank you 🙏😊

[@galaxyindo3411]

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[@keenie8130]

Used to be a bad place now it’s like Disney land

[@tomg4950]

Thats why i dreaming of.. no masks anymore en freedom ..

[@ozzygrunt4812]

Where’s all of the mask wearers? Or, wasn’t it enforced when this vlog was done?

[@tdb7992]

Because Australia has essentially beaten the virus so we don't have to wear then anymore. I think 9 people in the country currently have it, and they're Australians who have returned from overseas with it and are currently in quarantine hotels.

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