Neighbor photos near the stop, from the First Hill map. Zoom out to see more nearby.
📍 900 Madison St
Seattle's oldest luxury hotel, open since 1909 — dark wood and Italianate corners. Walk into the Fireside Room even if you're not a guest; it's a lobby lounge made for an afternoon coffee or an evening drink. Stella is the hotel's sit-down restaurant.
📍 1014 Madison St
The scone-and-coffee stop, a block from the hotel.
A few blocks up Madison: hand-forged doughnuts and a wall of cookbooks.
If you want one destination on the neighborhood's unfussy, affordable restaurant row, make it this — West African cooking, fufu with peanut soup and jollof rice. A left on Boren and it's on your left.
A sit-down worth knowing: Asian–European, an unexpected pairing done well. It sits below the next stop, so catch it here — from Boylston it's a backtrack.
The quiet coffee-and-a-table room. Also below the next stop, so catch it here.
📍 804 9th Ave
The twin-towered seat of Catholic Seattle, 1907. The interior is worth the door.
📍 704 Terry Ave
Free, always. A founding collection of 19th-century painting plus rotating contemporary shows — the best free hour on the hill.
Cross Broadway onto one of the prettier urban campuses in the city: the quad, the botanical garden and its little maze, the Healing Garden, and Steven Holl's Chapel of St. Ignatius — poured concrete and colored light. Come out at Broadway & Madison and you're at the next stop.
📍 1119 8th Ave
On the way back down: a restored 1916 hall with a great calendar of talks and music. Got a ticket that night? Ride the G down, grab a snack from the market across the street, and walk in.