Kitsilano (often referred to simply as Kits) is the northern part of the Vancouver west side. In the 1960s it was a neighborhood where hippies “tuned in and dropped out” but today it has some of Vancouver’s most expensive properties. It is situated right on the beach and very close to downtown.
Technically Kitsilano is the neighborhood between Burrard and Alma, from the beach to 12th Avenue. For the purposes of this guide we will also include the northern half of western Vancouver, from about King Edward Street Ave in the south to the water in the north, and from Alma Street in the west to Fir Street in the east, in the “Kitsilano area”. This includes the neighborhoods of Kitsilano, West Point Grey and portions of Dunbar and Arbutus Ridge. To the west is UBC, to the east is South Granville, to the south is Vancouver South, and to the north, across the Burrard bridge, is Downtown
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