Toronto- the largest city in Canada

Located in the southern Ontario province and by the Ontario lake, Toronto is the largest city as well as commercial capital in Canada. Its history can date back to the 18 century. The impression of this city on me is always old and chaotic especially in the center part. Last Christmas was my first time traveling to Toronto. You may see snow by the street and gloomy day in the freezing weather in pictures. The two pictures on the bottom right are from this spring break. I drove cross the Buffalo border between Canada and U.S. The rest of time I chose the Detroit route. The bridge on the top left is called the Ambassador connecting Canada and U.S. It is shorter distance to go this way than Buffalo direction and there are multiple border offices(entrances) in Detroit.

Toronto is a metropolis in Canada. It brings you a lot of different senceries. The center part of Toronto is composed of commercial, college, Olympic park, centre railway station and Chinatown areas. Two spots that may possibly represent this city as remarkable signs are CN tower and Chinatown. Canadian National (shortly CN) tower was built in 1976 and it is located in Olympic park area. It used to be the tallest tower (1815 ft) in the world until 2010. People can observe Toronto from differnt levels of the CN tower (since it has several observation platforms with varied heights). Here there is a video taken while we were riding the "extremely high-speed" elevator which is surprisingly made of glass. You can see the marvelous landscape of Toronto through the transparent glass.  

Through the picture group following you may have better idea about what the CN tower looks like and the sceneries from different angles at its observation spot.  

The other representative of Toronto should be Chinatown. Here you find relatively authentic Chinese food. For example, hot pot (right bottom), Dim-Sum (the one above right bottom), Chinese bakery, espresso coffee bar (two on the right top) and some other Asian food. Transportation in Toronto is really awful, as you can see from the main street of Chinatown. There are electrical bus tracks on the road with power supply cords hanging everywhere. Cars are running and parking by the street with no traffic rules. Canadian drivers are rude seriously by honking nonstop.  One reminder: Be careful when you drive in Toronto. 

However, I have to mention about the convenient side of transportation tools in Totonto. I tried to explore the city by city bus, subway with handy map. You also see the Canadian bills and pennies in the picture. Can't believe that its currency is worth more than American one.

While, I had a crush on Centre Railway Station even though I didn't ride a train. In these photos, you can see the skylink connected the streets with railway station and outside of the station hall. I love the modern design of skyline as well as the interior old-fasioned style of rainway station.

Let's look at other places of interests. The group of pictures guide you to Victory University (two on the upper left), shopping center (third one one the left column), ice-skating by the street (bottom left corner), interesting building with a car rushing out and a rocket launching (second one on the bottom), street sight from the skylink, and Olympic park area (the big one and the bottom right corner).

 Among these tourism places, Art Museum of Ontario (two on the left bottom) must be my favorite. It's near by Art College of Ontario. The awesome architecture shown in the pictures with white box supported by colorful rods is actually education building of the school. I was so lucky browsing inside by chance.



 Besides this creative one, there are many other classical architectures around the city. These are some which drew my eyes. They are most likely used as church or city hall.