Shopping in Amsterdam
Opening hours
Traditionally, shops and markets are closed all day Sunday and Monday mornings. Normal shopping hours are 09:00 or 10:00 to 18:00 (17:00 on Saturday) although some are now beginning to stay open later in the evenings and a majority of the shops on the main shopping streets are even open on Sundays. There is late-night shopping (koopavond) on Thursdays until 21:00, when most shops on the main streets are open.
Shopping areas
The main shopping areas are the Leidsestraat between the Leidseplein and Spui, and the Kalverstraat and Nieuwendijk, leading from the Munt Tower via the Dam to near the Central Station. There are large stores near the Munt Tower (V&D and Hema), and at the Dam (Bijenkorf and Magna Plaza). There is a large supermarket behind the Palace at the Dam, open until 22:00 7 days a week.
The Jordaan and the streets around it contain many small interesting individual shops. The PC Hooftstraat and district, near the museums, contains many of the more chic shops.
Daily markets
Waterlooplein Market is an interesting daily clothes and second-hand market around the City Hall and Opera (Stopera).
Albert Cuyp Market, a busy cosmopolitan food and clothes market, is the best-known market in the Netherlands, and possibly the largest day market in Europe.
The flower market on the Singel (between the top of the Leidsestraat and the Munt Tower) is not to be missed (trams 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 14, 16, 24, 25).
Typical stores in Amsterdam
The popular Must-see Shopping route winds through the city centre and takes you along the main (and busiest) shopping streets of Amsterdam.
Stylishness in the PC Hooftstraat
Albert Cuyp Market
Amsterdam's best daily market for everything