Explore any street, anywhere
Type an address and stand in the street. Map and Street View side by side, satellite when you want the shape of a place, and a random button for when you have no idea where to start.
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Featured
Eight places to start
One click and the explorer opens there, camera angle included.
City guides
Twenty cities, properly written up
Each guide has ten one-click spots, five streets worth following end to end, and several hundred words on what makes that particular city worth exploring from the pavement.
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Four concentric canals, and gables that lean out over the water on purpose.
Bangkok
Thailand
A city built on canals, then paved over most of them.
Barcelona
Spain
A perfect grid with the corners cut off, and a Gothic maze beside it.
Berlin
Germany
A city where the twentieth century is still visible in the pavement.
Budapest
Hungary
Two cities on opposite banks, joined by bridges and argued over for centuries.
Cape Town
South Africa
A city wedged between a flat-topped mountain and two oceans' worth of coast.
Chicago
United States
Where the skyscraper was invented, on a grid beside an inland sea.
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
A city that mostly did not exist forty years ago, built along one road.
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
A medieval ridge and a Georgian grid, half a mile apart and nothing alike.
Istanbul
Türkiye
A city on two continents, with a strait full of shipping between them.
Kyoto
Japan
A thousand years of capital, on a grid borrowed from Chinese planners.
Lisbon
Portugal
Rebuilt on a grid after an earthquake, on hills that fought the grid.
London
United Kingdom
A city with no plan, which is exactly what makes it worth wandering.
Los Angeles
United States
Not one city but forty, connected by road and photographed accordingly.
Madrid
Spain
A capital built inland on purpose, with the widest sky of any European city.
Mexico City
Mexico
Built on a drained lake, sinking steadily, and enormous in every direction.
Mumbai
India
Seven islands joined into one peninsula, and everything squeezed onto it.
Munich
Germany
Rebuilt to look old on purpose, with a surfable river running through a park.
New York
United States
A numbered grid above 14th Street and complete chaos below it.
Paris
France
Nineteenth-century boulevards, medieval lanes, and a river you can follow end to end.
Prague
Czechia
A medieval street plan that survived the twentieth century almost intact.
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Granite peaks, rainforest and a city squeezed into the gaps between them.
Rome
Italy
Three thousand years of building stacked on the same few hills.
San Francisco
United States
One of the five cities Street View launched in, and the steepest of them.
Seoul
South Korea
Six hundred years of capital, rebuilt twice, with mountains inside the city limits.
Singapore
Singapore
An island city-state that planned nearly all of itself, and it shows.
Sydney
Australia
A drowned river valley with a city arranged around every inlet of it.
Tokyo
Japan
A city with almost no street names, organised in blocks instead.
Toronto
Canada
A ravine city with a grid on top, and alleys worth more than the avenues.
Venice
Italy
A city with no roads at all, photographed entirely on foot.
Vienna
Austria
An imperial capital that turned its city wall into a boulevard.
Collections
Explore by theme
Famous Landmarks
The buildings everybody recognises, seen from the pavement rather than the postcard.
20 places
Beaches
Fifteen coastlines you can walk without booking anything.
15 places
Mountain Roads
Fifteen drives that exist mainly because somebody wanted the view.
15 places
Cities at Night
Ten places where the camera passed after dark, which is rarer than you would think.
10 places
Hidden Gems
Ten places that are strange, remote or simply unlikely to be photographed at all.
10 places
How it works
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Search or click
Type an address, a city or a landmark into the bar at the top, or click anywhere on the map. Street View loads for the nearest photographed point.
- 2
Move around
Drag to look, scroll to zoom, and click the arrows on the road to walk along it. The map keeps pace with you as you go.
- 3
Keep it or send it
Save a place to your browser or copy a link that reopens the exact view, camera angle included. No account is involved in either.
What this is, and what it is not
This is a free Google Street View explorer. It puts a map and a Street View panel side by side, lets you search any address, and gives you a link that reopens the exact view you were looking at. There is no signup, no account and no cap on how many places you can look at in a day.
That last part is worth stating plainly, because the largest site in this category limits you to twenty searches a day and then asks for a subscription. There is no equivalent here and there is not going to be.
What it is not is a Google product. The imagery, the map data and the Street View service all come from Google, and this site is an interface to them. It is not affiliated with Google and does not store, cache or re-serve any of their imagery.
The other half of the site is written rather than mapped: twenty city guides and five collections, each one about what a particular place looks like from the pavement and why that is different from the photographs of it. If you want the argument for exploring this way at all, the virtual travel guide makes it, including what the medium cannot do.
Common questions
How do I view a street in Google Street View?
Type the address into the search bar at the top of the explorer and press Go, or click the spot on the map. The view loads for the nearest photographed point, and you can then drag to look around and click along the road to move.
Is this Street View explorer free?
Yes, completely. There is no signup, no account and no daily search limit. Some competing sites cap you at twenty searches a day and then ask for a subscription. This one does not.
How do I share a Google Street View location?
Press Share and the link is copied to your clipboard. It encodes the coordinates plus the direction and angle you were looking, so whoever opens it sees exactly what you were seeing.
Can I explore random locations in Street View?
Yes. The random page picks from a curated pool of 489 places that are known to have coverage, so you land somewhere real rather than in the middle of an ocean.
Do you save my location history?
Only in your own browser. History and saved places are stored on your device using local storage, never sent to a server, and clearing your browsing data removes them.
What countries have Google Street View?
Well over one hundred, though coverage varies enormously. Western Europe, North America, Japan and Australia are close to complete on public roads, while other regions have major cities only.
Why does some places show no Street View?
Because Google has not photographed them. Private roads, many rural areas and a number of countries have no coverage at all. When you land somewhere uncovered the explorer says so rather than showing you a blank panel.
Can I use this on a phone?
Yes. The map fills the screen, the controls float over it, and Street View responds to touch for looking around and moving along the street.