Places to Visit Around Baker Street Station

Baker Street station is on the corner of Marylebone Road and Baker Street, and the two sights most people come for are right outside it: Madame Tussauds is two minutes east along Marylebone Road and the Sherlock Holmes Museum two minutes north up Baker Street. Regent’s Park begins five minutes away. The walking times below are our estimates from the station, the same ones as in the Nearby list.

Within 5 minutes’ walk

Madame Tussauds (2 min) – Turn left out of the station and walk east along Marylebone Road: the wax museum is a few metres along, beside the green dome of the old London Planetarium, which stopped being a planetarium in 2006 and is now part of Madame Tussauds. If you intend visiting, book your tickets in advance because the queues can be horrendous.

The Sherlock Holmes Museum (2 min) – Turn right out of the main entrance and right again up Baker Street; the museum is on the left. It is a privately run museum that opened in 1990, and it carries the number 221B by permission of the City of Westminster, although it stands between numbers 237 and 241.

The London Beatles Store (2 min) – On the same side of Baker Street, just before the museum, at numbers 231–233. It sells Beatles merchandise and memorabilia, from T-shirts and posters to autographs (London Beatles Store).

Golden Tours Visitor Centre (2 min) – I recommend taking an open top bus tour at the start of a visit to any new city: it helps to orientate you and gives you an overview of where things are and places that you may want to visit in more detail. Golden Tours, one of the hop-on hop-off bus operators, has a visitor centre at 144 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5PH (Golden Tours, checked October 2026).

5 to 10 minutes’ walk

Marylebone High Street (7 min) – Cross Marylebone Road and walk east; Marylebone High Street is on your right. It can be described as at the up-market end of trendy, with boutiques, specialist food shops and some excellent restaurants.

10 to 15 minutes’ walk

The Wallace Collection (11 min) – Walk south down Baker Street and turn left for Manchester Square, where Hertford House holds the collection built up by the Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace: French 18th-century paintings, furniture, and arms and armour. Entry to the permanent collection is free (Wallace Collection).

Regent’s Park (13 min into the park) – The park’s edge is closer than that: walk east along Marylebone Road and turn left up York Gate (5 min), which leads into the park and on to the Inner Circle, where Queen Mary’s Gardens hold the rose beds and the Open Air Theatre (10 min). London Zoo is further on, in the north of the park.

The station

Baker Street is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway, the world’s first underground railway, which opened on 10 January 1863. Five Underground lines stop here: the Bakerloo, Circle, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee and Metropolitan lines. The station is in Zone 1, and its address is Marylebone Road, NW1 5LA.