Gothenburg is a lively shopping city with five hundred shops within five minutes’ walking distance. It offers an exiting mixture of modern warehouses and independent shops, pedestrian areas, galleries and arcades.
NK DEPARTMENT STORE
This department store is home to 50 retailers such as Gant, Mulberry, Filippa K, Marc o'Polo, Ralph Lauren and Mexx, and the whole store represents some 1,230 different brands. Here you find Swedish crystal and designer glassworks.
ARKADEN
Perfect for those who love fashion and beauty.
KOMPASSEN
Packed with street fashion and the latest trends.
KUNGSPORTSAVENYN - THE AVENUE
A unique mix of shopping and pleasure and the most fashionable street in the city. This street links Kungsportsbron Bridge with Götaplatsen, the cultural centre with the statue of Poseidon in the middle of the fountain.
KRONHUSBODARNA
Kronhuset at Postgatan in the city centre is Gothenburg's oldest secular building, built 1643-55. A former military warehouse, today it is a popular handicraft centre well worth a visit.
FESKEKYRKA
‘Fish church’ in Swedish, as it quickly became known, is an indoor fish and seafood market where you can buy all kinds of freshly caught seafood delicacies.
OLD QUARTER HAGA
Gothenburg's oldest suburb is now a lovely neighbourhood in the centre of town. Cobbled streets and well-preserved brick and wood houses give this neighbourhood an old-fashioned touch. Plenty of cafés, boutiques, fashion, antiques and second-hand shops for the discerning shopper.
Opening hours
NK Department store:
Open Monday- Friday 10.00–19.00, Saturdays 10.00–17.00 and Sundays 12.00-16.00.
Nordstan Shopping Centre:
Open Monday- Friday 10.00–20.00, Saturdays 10.00–18.00 and Sundays 11.00-17.00.
Shopping downtown:
Open Monday- Friday 10.00–19.00 and Saturdays 10.00–16.00, Sundays 12.00-16.00
Other opening hours:
Monday –Friday 10.00-18.00, Saturdays 10.00-15.00, Sunday closed.