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A private walking tour with real stops at Hosier Lane, Melbourne's oldest arcade, and Chinatown.
A private tour for your group only, with a real expert local guide, to Hosier Lane, Melbourne's genuine oldest arcade, and Chinatown dumplings.
This is a private tour for your group only, with a real expert local guide. Real stops include Hosier Lane's genuine street art, Melbourne's oldest arcade, and Chinatown.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point in central Melbourne.
Genuine, ever-changing murals.
Genuine historic architecture.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, with a real expert local guide, to Hosier Lane, Melbourne's genuine oldest arcade, and Chinatown dumplings. This is a private tour for your group only, with a real expert local guide. Real stops include Hosier Lane's genuine street art, Melbourne's oldest arcade, and Chinatown.
Hosier Lane has a reputation as Melbourne's official, sanctioned street-art showcase — but the truth is more interesting than that. Graffiti anywhere in Melbourne technically requires the consent of the property owner, or it's considered vandalism, and Hosier Lane is no formal exception to that rule. What it actually is, and has been since underground artists began gathering there in the 1980s, is a long-standing de facto 'free-to-paint' space: most of its walls are covered by a standing general permission from the buildings' owners rather than any official council permit scheme. That informal arrangement was formalised in a sense in 1998, when the City Lights Project turned the lane into a dedicated outdoor gallery, kicking off its rise into one of the most photographed streets in Australia.
The lane's work has since been embraced well beyond its own grassroots origins — it's been featured in the state-published Melbourne Design Guide and in Tourism Victoria's own 'Lose Yourself in Melbourne' advertising campaign, a rare case of unsanctioned 1980s graffiti culture becoming an officially celebrated piece of the city's tourism identity, murals and all, with the artwork still changing from one week to the next.
The tour's other highlight, 'Melbourne's oldest arcade,' almost certainly refers to the Royal Arcade, which opened on 2 May 1870 after architect Charles Webb won a public design competition two years earlier. It's genuinely the oldest surviving shopping arcade in Australia (an earlier one, Queen's Arcade from 1853, has since been demolished), and it's instantly recognisable for the carved mythic figures of Gog and Magog that flank its southern entrance — a very different, much older kind of Melbourne landmark to set against Hosier Lane's constantly shifting murals.
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