Toronto Eaton Centre parking: 2 garages, rates and entrances
The cheaper garage tops the wing built where two spiral ramps once rose over Cineplex, and the dearer one cannot be entered from the street it is named for.
Park on Bay: a weekday hour at the Eaton Centre's Bay/Dundas Parkade costs $7, against $17 at its Yonge Parkade. The Bay garage tops the wing built where two spiral ramps once climbed above Cineplex, in 1979 the world's largest multiplex. The Yonge Parkade is on Yonge Street, and no car can turn into it from Yonge Street.
At $4.25 a quarter hour, a Tuesday hour at Yonge costs more than a whole Sunday. The Bay garage opened in 2006, in the wing that replaced the old nine storey garage, Wikipedia's history of the mall records. Impark runs both garages, and every parking figure here is from its lot pages and the mall's visitor page, read 2 October 2026.
Quick facts
- Bay/Dundas Parkade, 525 Bay Street: 549 spaces, entrance on the east side of Bay
- Yonge Parkade, 220 Yonge Street: 844 spaces, entered from westbound Shuter Street only
- A weekday hour: $7.00 at Bay/Dundas, $17.00 at Yonge
- Line 1 subway: Queen station at the south end, TMU at the north
- 7 shops in this directory trade inside the mall, read 2 October 2026
Bay/Dundas, the cheaper garage
Drive north on Bay past Albert Street and turn right just after the Marriott, at 525 Bay Street. Headroom is 6 ft 11 in on Level 1 and 6 ft 7 in on Levels 2 and 3.
A weekday costs $7.00 for an hour, $14.00 for two, $21.00 for three and $25.00 for the day. Saturday starts at $4.00 an hour, and 12 hours cost $22.00. Sunday is $4.00 an hour and stops at $12.00.
Keep the ticket on you. The pay stations sit in the four elevator lobbies and take credit, debit and cash, and a lost ticket costs $50.00. On weekdays you cannot turn left out onto Bay from 7:30am to 9:30am or from 3:30pm to 6:30pm.
The Yonge Parkade, entered from Shuter Street
Impark says you enter from westbound Shuter Street only and leave onto Shuter, and the mall's page gives 10 Shuter Street for a GPS. It has five levels, with accessible spaces on P1, P2 and P5. Nothing taller than 6 ft 2 in fits.
At $4.25 a quarter hour, a weekday visit reaches the $28.00 daily maximum just after 90 minutes. Saturday stops at $44.00, twice what 12 hours cost on Bay. Sundays and holidays are a $12.00 flat rate, 5am to midnight.
So Bay wins on price, on headroom and on chargers. The one weekday case for Yonge is an early start: drive in between 5am and 7:30am and the day costs $24.00, a dollar under Bay's maximum. Past two hours on a Sunday, the two tie at $12.00.
Only one of the two garages can be entered from a street in its name.
Driving in with Queen Street closed
Queen Street, along the mall's south end, has been closed to cars between Yonge and Bay since 1 May 2023, for Ontario Line work. Both garages stayed open. The mall's page expects the closure to last about four years.
From the Gardiner, take the Bay exit north for Bay/Dundas, or the Yonge exit, then Adelaide, Victoria and Shuter. From the Don Valley Parkway, take Richmond Street and turn right on Victoria or Bay.
Taxis and rideshares use Albert's Way on James Street. Since 25 October 2024, people on foot cannot cross Queen between Yonge and Bay, so cross at Yonge. For Green P's lots, see the Toronto parking note.
Queen and TMU stations, if you leave the car
At Queen station (3 Queen Street East), one Eaton Centre door is on the north side of Queen Street West, 32 metres west of Yonge. Another opens off the mall's Level 1 at Shuter Street.
TMU station (the former Dundas station), at 3 Dundas Street East, opens into the Eaton Centre atrium at Yonge and Dundas. Both stations open at 5:55am Monday to Saturday and just after 8am on Sunday, the TTC's pages say.
Between them runs the mall, which opened at the Dundas end in 1977 and reached Queen in 1979. From its glass ceiling hang Michael Snow's fibreglass Canada geese, Flight Stop.
When the mall tied red ribbons on the geese one Christmas, Snow sued, arguing they made his work "ridiculous". He won. In Snow v Eaton Centre Ltd, the court ordered the ribbons off.
Fourteen shops, by what you came for
Seven of this directory's shops trade inside the mall. Seven more are a walk of ten minutes or less, by OpenStreetMap's routes.
Five shoe shops, without leaving the building
B2, the Browns shop for street fashion and designer collections, is on Level 1. So is SoftMoc, which sells its own moccasins and mukluks among more than 100 brands. On Level 2, Dolce Vita, from New York's Lower East Side in 2001, makes some boots in wide and extra wide calf.
HOKA, also on Level 2, sells cushioned trail and road running shoes, and Skechers sells shoes for wide feet, the mall's store pages say.
Two for clothes, in a mall named for a department store
Simons opened a three storey store off Level 3 on 18 September 2025. John Simons began it as a dry goods shop in Quebec City in 1840, and Eaton's, whose name the mall still carries, went bankrupt in 1999, Wikipedia records.
On Level 1, Suzy Shier and Le Château share one shop, "Suzy by Day, Le Château by Night" in its own words.
Three that make it for you
Five minutes up Yonge and along Elm Street is Freda's, at number 45. Freda opened it in 1972, and it still designs, makes and sells its own women's clothes; evening wear takes two to three weeks, its site says. It opens 10am to 6pm Monday to Saturday.
Eight minutes south of Queen station, Garrison Bespoke makes suits by appointment at 26 Wellington Street East, and keeps a wedding room in the King Edward Hotel. Surmesur makes suits and shirts to measure for men and women at 33 Yonge Street, its door facing Berczy Park.
Four for labels and sneakers
Hangar9 is the Fisher family's business, begun in London, Ontario, in 1985, and one of the founder's three daughters runs the Toronto shop, its site says. It sells Max Mara, Dorothee Schumacher and Wolford in First Canadian Place, on the PATH, weekdays 10am to 6pm.
HAVEN, founded in 2006 by the brothers Arthur and Daniel Chmielewski, sells its own menswear beside other labels. It is nine minutes from Queen station, on the second floor of 190 Richmond Street East, open from noon daily.
Elite Xchange sells sneakers and streetwear in Unit 29 at 384 Yonge Street, six minutes up from Dundas, noon to 8pm Tuesday to Sunday. Hotbox shares the address.
Common questions
Is Eaton Centre parking open 24 hours?
Yes. Impark lists both garages as open around the clock, and the Yonge Parkade charges a $15.00 flat rate from midnight to 5am. The mall itself opens 10am to 9pm Monday to Saturday and 11am to 7pm Sunday, and keeps Sunday hours on Thanksgiving Monday, 12 October 2026.
Can you charge an electric car at the Eaton Centre?
The mall's page lists sixteen Tesla Superchargers, on P2 and P3 of the Bay/Dundas Parkade. It lists none at Yonge.
Can you pay for Eaton Centre parking by phone?
Yes, with Impark's Scan to Pay: code 9434 at Bay/Dundas and 9433 at the Yonge Parkade.