Edinburgh Map: Every Sight, Free Spot and Named Place We Cover
This Edinburgh map puts every place the guide covers on one screen: the ticketed sights with the official adult price, the free ones, five neighbourhoods, and the kitchens and pubs we can name because a published guide or the venue's own site lists them. Filter by category, tap a pin for the price and the page that explains it, or open any point in Google Maps and walk there. Everything on it sits inside the city — the castles and lochs are on day trips, which is a different frame entirely. The wider planning picture is on the Edinburgh city guide homepage.
Quick answer How to use this map, in three lines
59 pins in four colours: heather for the ticketed sights, green for the free ones, gold for the kitchens and pubs a published guide vouches for, black for the five neighbourhoods. Everything is inside Edinburgh and walkable or a short bus ride apart.
Key takeaways
- Every pin links to the page that explains it — prices, hours and booking rules live there, and the ticketed ones are compared here
- Tap the Google Maps icon on any pin or list row to navigate to it from your own phone
- Fifteen pins cost nothing at all — the green ones make a free day plannable at a glance
- Nothing beyond the city limits is on here: Stirling, Rosslyn, Loch Ness and Skye are on day trips, and getting around covers the buses and trams between the pins
The Map
Numbered pins, filterable by category. The list below the map is the same set in text, grouped the same way — every place links to its own page on this site and to Google Maps for directions.
Ticketed sights 12 pins
- Edinburgh Castle£23.50 ($32) online£26 ($35) at the gate; the Tattoo is on this esplanade each August
- Palace of Holyroodhouse£22 ($30) in advance£26 ($35) on the day; closed to visitors during royal visits
- The Real Mary King's Close£24.95 ($34)Signature Guided Tour; £28.50 ($39) from 1 September 2026
- The Royal Yacht Britannia£23 ($31) onlineIn Leith at Ocean Terminal; £25 ($34) on the door
- The Scotch Whisky ExperienceFrom £25 ($34)Silver Tour, 50 minutes; the Gold Tour is £39.75 ($54)
- Johnnie Walker Princes StreetFrom £30 ($41)Signature Experience, 1.5 hours, rooftop bars above it
- The Edinburgh DungeonFrom £20.12 ($27)£23 ($31) from 1 September 2026; actor-led, 80 minutes
- Edinburgh Zoo£30 ($41) onlineCorstorphine, west of the centre — bus 12, 26 or 31
- Dynamic Earth£23 ($31) onlineAdult annual pass — there is no adult day ticket
- Camera Obscura & World of IllusionsNot published by the venueThe rate appears only inside the booking widget (re-checked 30 August 2026)
- Scott Monument£9 ($12)Bought at the kiosk on arrival, card payments only, 287 steps
- Surgeons' Hall Museums£10 ($14)Nicolson Street, ten minutes south of the Royal Mile
Free 15 pins
- Arthur's SeatfreeThe volcano in Holyrood Park; 251 m, about an hour up
- Calton HillfreeThe postcard view of the city, open at any hour
- Dean VillagefreeMill village on the Water of Leith, ten minutes from Princes Street
- Greyfriars KirkyardfreeBobby's headstone, the Covenanters' Prison, and free to walk
- National Museum of ScotlandfreeFree entry, charges for some special exhibitions
- Scottish National GalleryfreeThe Mound, daily 10:00–17:00, free admission
- Scottish National Portrait GalleryfreeQueen Street, daily 10:00–17:00, free admission
- Princes Street GardensfreeBoth gardens under the castle rock; the north pavement of Princes Street is still shut
- The Royal Milefree to walkCastle to palace, about a mile, downhill the sensible way
- St Giles' CathedralfreeSuggested donation £10 ($14) in the cathedral's own words
- Victoria StreetfreeThe curved shopfronts and the terrace above them
- Royal Botanic Garden EdinburghfreeGarden entry free; the Palm Houses are £5.50 ($7)
- The Writers' MuseumfreeLady Stair's Close — Culture Edinburgh (City of Edinburgh Council), 2026
- The People's StoryfreeCanongate Tolbooth — Culture Edinburgh (City of Edinburgh Council), 2026
- Museum of EdinburghfreeHuntly House, Canongate — Culture Edinburgh (City of Edinburgh Council), 2026
Eat & drink 27 pins
- Maggie Dickson'sThe pub's own website and The Gazetteer for Scotland, 2026
- The White Hart InnThe Gazetteer for Scotland, 2022
- The Last DropThe Gazetteer for Scotland, 2022
- The Beehive InnThe Gazetteer for Scotland, 2022
- The Fiddler's ArmsThe Gazetteer for Scotland, 2022
- The KitchinMICHELIN Guide, One Star, 2026 — Commercial Quay
- Restaurant Martin WishartMICHELIN Guide, One Star, 2026 — 54 The Shore
- HeronMICHELIN Guide, One Star, 2026 — Henderson Street
- ArdfernMICHELIN Guide, Bib Gourmand, 2026 — Bonnington Road
- Barry FishMICHELIN Guide selection, 2026 — 62 The Shore
- SkuaMICHELIN Guide, Bib Gourmand, 2026 — St Stephen Street
- The Scran & ScallieMICHELIN Guide, Bib Gourmand, 2026 — Comely Bank Road
- eòrnaMICHELIN Guide selection, 2026 — Hamilton Place
- PurslaneMICHELIN Guide selection, 2026 — St Stephen Street
- SottoMICHELIN Guide selection, 2026 — Deanhaugh Street
- TimberyardMICHELIN Guide, One Star, 2026 — Lady Lawson Street
- LYLAMICHELIN Guide, One Star, 2026 — Royal Terrace
- ConditaMICHELIN Guide, One Star, 2026 — Salisbury Place, Newington
- AVERYMICHELIN Guide, One Star, 2026 — St Stephen Street
- NotoMICHELIN Guide, Bib Gourmand, 2026 — Thistle Street
- tipoMICHELIN Guide, Bib Gourmand, 2026 — Hanover Street
- HendersonsMICHELIN Guide selection, 2026 — Barclay Place, Bruntsfield
- The Bow Barfree entryThe bar's own website, 2026 — West Bow, no table service
- Oink£6.65–£11.95 ($9–$16)Oink Hog Roast, 2026 — the company publishes no street number for this branch
- Howies VictoriaSet lunch £19.95 ($27)Howies Restaurants, 2026 — 10–14 Victoria Street
- Scotts KitchenHowies Restaurants, 2026 — Victoria Terrace, above the street
- The Elephant HouseThe cafe's own site, 2026 — George IV Bridge, reopened after the 2021 fire
Neighbourhoods 5 pins
- Edinburgh Old TownThe ridge from the castle to Holyrood, and the closes off it
- The New TownThe Georgian grid north of Princes Street
- The GrassmarketThe square under the castle rock, and its pubs
- StockbridgeSunday market, the Water of Leith and the kitchens on St Stephen Street
- LeithThe Shore, the yacht and three MICHELIN stars, 20 minutes by tram
Pin positions for the attractions come from each page's published coordinates; the restaurants, pubs and small museums were located once from their published street addresses through OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service and stored here, so nothing is looked up while you read. Prices are the official adult rate on the page that owns the place, in pounds as published with a dollar approximation at £1 = $1.36. Day trips are deliberately absent: Stirling, Rosslyn Chapel, St Andrews, Glasgow, Loch Ness, Glencoe, Skye and Alnwick are tens to hundreds of miles out and would zoom this frame to the whole of Britain — they have their own maps on day trips. Checked 30 August 2026.
Edinburgh Map: Questions
Is there a printable or PDF Edinburgh map?
Not from this site — but every pin carries an Open in Google Maps link, and Google Maps downloads the whole Edinburgh area for offline use: open the app, search Edinburgh, tap Download. That beats a PDF because it still knows where you are standing. Paper city maps are handed out free at the VisitScotland iCentre on Princes Street.
How walkable is the area this map covers?
The Old Town and New Town pins sit inside roughly two square kilometres, and most walks between them run 5 to 20 minutes — but Edinburgh is built on a ridge, so the flat distance lies about the effort. The outliers are Leith and the Royal Yacht Britannia (a tram or bus ride down), Edinburgh Zoo in the west, and Arthur's Seat, which is a climb rather than a walk. The fares are on getting around.
Why do some pins show no price?
Black neighbourhood pins are areas, not venues. Food pins show a price only where the venue publishes one — most restaurants publish a MICHELIN price band rather than a figure, and this site never invents one. Camera Obscura shows "not published by the venue" because its rate appears only inside the booking widget after you pick a date, which is exactly what its own page says.
Are the day trips on this map?
No. Stirling Castle, Rosslyn Chapel, St Andrews, Glasgow, Loch Ness, Glencoe, the Isle of Skye and Alnwick Castle are tens to hundreds of miles from the Royal Mile, and putting them on one frame would shrink Edinburgh to a dot. Each has its own page and its own map, indexed on day trips.
How current are the prices on the pins?
Each price is the official adult rate read from the venue's own site on the date printed on that venue's page; the pin repeats it for convenience. Two of them move on 1 September 2026 — The Real Mary King's Close and the Edinburgh Dungeon both come off a temporarily reduced rate — and the pins carry both figures. If a pin and a page ever disagree, the page is the source of truth, and the tickets index is rechecked most often.
Page last reviewed 2026-08-30. Prices, hours and terms are set by the venue or operator and confirmed at checkout.
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