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Space Needle

The Space Needle is an observation tower in , Washington, United States. Considered to be an icon of the city, it has been designated a Seattle landmark.
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  • Opening hours:
    Monday—Thursday: 9:00 AM—10:00 PM
    Friday—Sunday: 8:00 AM—midnight
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States
  • Address: 400 Broad Street, WA 98109
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Museum of Pop Culture and Seattle Center Monorail.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a nonprofit museum in , Washington, United States, dedicated to contemporary popular culture. It was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000 as the Experience Music Project. is situated 450 feet northeast of Space Needle.

Railway station
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The is an elevated straddle-beam monorail line in , Washington, United States. The 0.9-mile monorail runs along 5th Avenue between the and in , making no intermediate stops.

Museum
Photo: BrandieBreezy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an exhibit in the directly next to the Space Needle, showcasing the studio glass of Dale Chihuly. It opened in May 2012 at the former site of the defunct Fun Forest amusement park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Uptown and Queen Anne-South Lake Union.

Neighborhood
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Lower Queen Anne is a neighborhood in northwestern , Washington, at the base of . While its boundaries are not precise, the toponym usually refers to the shopping, office, and residential districts to the north and west of .

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Northwest of , Queen Anne is a hilly residential neighborhood with marvelous views of the city's skyline. Magnolia, a wealthy residential neighborhood, sits on a peninsula west of Queen Anne, separated from Queen Anne by Interbay, an unexpected commercial and industrial strip in the valley between the two hilly neighborhoods.

Suburb
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is the most densely populated neighborhood in , , United States, located on the city's downtown waterfront on land that was artificially flattened as part of a .

Space Needle

Latitude
47.62051° or 47° 37′ 14″ north
Longitude
-122.3493° or 122° 20′ 58″ west
Elevation
538 feet (164 metres)
Inception
1962
Height
604 feet (184 metres)
Operator
The Space Needle is privately owned by the Wright family
Open location code
84VVJMC2+67
Open­Street­Map ID
way 12903132
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­tower
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­tower
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
5811572
Wiki­data ID
Q5317
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Satellite Map

Discover Space Needle from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Space Needle” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إبرة الفضاء”
  • Arabic: “الإبرة الفضائية”
  • Arabic: “سبيس نيدل”
  • Armenian: “Սփեյս Նիդլ”
  • Basque: “Space Needle”
  • Catalan: “Space Needle”
  • Chinese: “太空針塔”
  • Chinese: “太空针塔”
  • Cornish: “Space Needle”
  • Czech: “Space Needle”
  • Danish: “Space Needle”
  • Dutch: “Space Needle”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابره الفضاء”
  • Esperanto: “Spaca Nadlo”
  • Esperanto: “Space Needle”
  • Estonian: “Space Needle”
  • Finnish: “Space Needle”
  • French: “Space Needle”
  • Galician: “Space Needle”
  • Georgian: “სპეის ნიდლი”
  • German: “Space Needle”
  • Hebrew: “מחט החלל”
  • Indonesian: “Space Needle”
  • Italian: “Space Needle”
  • Japanese: “スペースニードル”
  • Kazakh: “Спейс Нидл”
  • Korean: “스페이스 니들”
  • Latin: “Acus Spatialis”
  • Latvian: “Space Needle”
  • Lithuanian: “Space Needle”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Space Needle”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Space Needle”
  • Norwegian: “Space Needle”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Space Needle”
  • Persian: “برج سوزن فضایی”
  • Polish: “Space Needle”
  • Portuguese: “Obelisco Espacial”
  • Portuguese: “Space Needle”
  • Romanian: “Space Needle”
  • Russian: “космическая игла”
  • Russian: “Спейс Нидл”
  • Russian: “Спейс-Нидл”
  • Slovak: “Space Needle”
  • Spanish: “Aguja del Espacio”
  • Spanish: “Space Needle”
  • Swedish: “Space Needle”
  • Turkish: “Space Needle”
  • Uzbek: “Space Needle”
  • Vietnamese: “Space Needle”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Space Needle”
  • Welsh: “Y Nodwydd Ofod, Seattle”

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