"New to Sydney any local knowledge?" Topic

I'll be working out of Sydney as of August. Any decent shops I could check while I'm there, any genre. I work on cruise ships so my time is very limited on a Sydney day, so gaming not important, just retail therapy, as close to the port as possible.
Thanks in advance.

Good Games above Games Workshop, both @ 222 Clarence St, Sydney, in the block nearest the Town Hall. Several tables for both cards and figure gaming if you can't help yourself.

Games Paradise, 357 Pitt St, Sydney is a couple of blocks away to the Sth East. Mainly board games & cards, small play area upstairs.

If you are into 54mm collector figures, Peter Nathan, top level of the Queen Victoria building is about half way between.

Good Games and GW have other stores around the metropolitan area, there are also some 'local' stores in places like Parramatta and Campbelltown but you have to know them.

The city lost it's better stores over the years, those two plus Hobbbyco in the QVB building are close to it.

I always visit Kinokuniya bookshop when I'm in Sydney.
Decent military and history sections, but an amazing bookshop alltogether.

From memory it's in the Galleries Victoria building in the CBD.

-Kosta

Thanks guys. Good tips, especially a decent bookstore.

Abbeys is on the other side of the QVB, in York Street – old established and probably the last of the 'serious', non-chain bookshops left in the CBD.

"Abbeys is on the other side of the QVB, in York Street – old established and probably the last of the 'serious', non-chain bookshops left in the CBD."

Haven't been into the city in years, but it's good to know they're still kicking.

I miss Thorburn's Technical Bookshop (Liverpool street, I think).

Duck

Ah Thorburn's. There used to be a mess of interesting and quirky second hand bookshops down towards the railway end of Pitt and George (I'm talking 40 years ago). All long gone along with THAT Sydney, which I greatly preferred (in the main) to the one that is there now.