Belfast Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Stops

Complete Guide to All 19 Belfast Bus Stops

Wondering where the Belfast Hop-On Hop-Off bus stops, which stop you need for Titanic Belfast, or where to get off for the Belfast Peace Wall?

The Belfast sightseeing bus route has 19 official hop-on hop-off stops covering Belfast city centre, Titanic Quarter, Queen's Quarter, Falls Road, the Peace Wall, Shankill Road, Crumlin Road and many of the city's best-known visitor attractions.

You do not have to begin at Stop 1. Passengers can join and leave the tour at any official stop during operating hours, although Donegall Square West beside Belfast City Hall is the recommended main starting point.

If you stay aboard rather than hopping off, the complete circuit takes approximately 90 minutes, with buses currently operating approximately every 30 minutes.

This guide explains all 19 stops, what you can see at each one, and where we recommend getting off depending on what you want to experience in Belfast.

Belfast Hop-On Hop-Off Stops at a Glance

Stop 1 — Donegall Square West: Belfast City Hall

Best for: Belfast City Hall, Donegall Square and starting your tour

Stop 1 is the main departure point for the Belfast Hop-On Hop-Off bus and the stop we recommend for visitors who are beginning their sightseeing day in Belfast city centre.

The stop is located at Donegall Square West beside Belfast City Hall, putting you immediately in the heart of central Belfast.

Belfast City Hall is one of the city's most recognisable landmarks and makes an obvious starting point because you can explore the surrounding city centre before or after joining the bus.

Good stop for: first-time visitors, city-centre hotels and anyone wanting to complete the route in its normal order.

Read our guide to Belfast City Hall

Stop 2 — SSE Arena

Best for: SSE Arena, W5 and the Odyssey area

The second stop moves the tour towards Belfast's waterfront and the beginning of the Titanic Quarter.

Get off here if you are visiting the SSE Arena or attractions and entertainment around the Odyssey complex. This area can also be a useful introduction to Belfast's regenerated waterfront before travelling further into Titanic Quarter.

Good stop for: families, events and visitors exploring Belfast's waterfront.

Stop 3 — Titanic Quarter

Best for: Titanic Quarter, PRONI and Belfast's historic waterfront

Stop 3 places you inside one of Belfast's most important visitor districts: Titanic Quarter.

The area occupies part of the former shipbuilding landscape that transformed Belfast into a major industrial city. Visitors can use this stop to explore the wider quarter rather than heading directly to Titanic Belfast itself.

If your main priority is actually entering Titanic Belfast, remain on the bus until Stop 5.

Complete guide to Titanic Quarter

Stop 4 — HMS Caroline

Best for: HMS Caroline, Titanic Dock, Maritime Mile and Titanic Distillers

Stop 4 is the best place to leave the bus if HMS Caroline is one of your priorities. The surrounding area is also useful for visitors who want to explore more of Belfast's maritime heritage beyond Titanic Belfast.

Titanic Dock, sections of the Maritime Mile and Titanic Distillers are associated with this part of the route.

Good stop for: maritime-history enthusiasts and visitors spending a full day or two days in Belfast.

HMS Caroline visitor guide

Stop 5 — Titanic Belfast

Best for: Titanic Belfast and SS Nomadic

If you're looking for the Belfast Hop-On Hop-Off stop for Titanic Belfast, this is it: Stop 5.

Titanic Belfast is one of the city's best-known attractions and a major reason many people come to Belfast. The stop also serves SS Nomadic, allowing you to combine two important parts of Belfast's Titanic story in the same area.

If you're planning to enter Titanic Belfast, allow enough time before returning to the stop rather than treating it as a quick photo opportunity.

Good stop for: first-time visitors, Titanic enthusiasts, families and maritime-history visitors.

Complete guide to Titanic Belfast

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Stop 6 — St George's Market

Best for: St George's Market

Stop 6 serves St George's Market, one of Belfast's best-known indoor markets.

The market is particularly popular for food, local products, crafts and the atmosphere inside its historic market building. It is an easy stop to combine with a city-centre sightseeing itinerary.

Good stop for: food, local products, rainy days and weekend visitors.

Complete guide to St George's Market

Stop 7 — Great Victoria Street

Best for: Belfast Grand Central Station, Crown Liquor Saloon, Europa Hotel and Grand Opera House

Stop 7 is particularly useful for visitors arriving or departing Belfast through Grand Central Station.

The surrounding area also contains several famous Belfast landmarks, including the Crown Liquor Saloon, Europa Hotel and Grand Opera House.

Good stop for: train and coach passengers, architecture, pubs and theatre.

Stop 8 — Dublin Road

Best for: Belfast's Golden Mile

Dublin Road is part of Belfast's lively south-city-centre area and provides access to hotels, restaurants, nightlife and the wider Golden Mile.

This is less likely to be a major sightseeing stop for first-time visitors than Titanic Belfast or the Peace Wall, but it can be extremely convenient depending on where you are staying.

Good stop for: nearby hotels, restaurants, nightlife and visitors staying south of the city centre.

Stop 9 — Shaftesbury Square

Best for: Lavery's, Benedicts and Crescent Arts Centre

Stop 9 continues through south Belfast and serves the Shaftesbury Square area. Nearby landmarks include Lavery's and the Crescent Arts Centre, while the stop also puts you within a lively part of Belfast known for bars, food and entertainment.

Good stop for: nightlife, culture and visitors staying around south Belfast.

Stop 10 — Ulster Museum & Queen's University

Best for: Ulster Museum, Queen's University and Botanic Gardens

This is one of the strongest hop-off opportunities on the entire route.

Stop 10 serves three attractions that work exceptionally well together: Queen's University Belfast, the Ulster Museum and Botanic Gardens.

Because the attractions are clustered together, Stop 10 can deliver a lot of sightseeing without having to repeatedly reboard the bus.

Good stop for: museums, architecture, families, gardens, rainy days and budget-conscious visitors.

Ulster Museum visitor guide

Stop 11 — Eglantine Avenue

Best for: Windsor Park and Lisburn Road

Stop 11 gives access towards Windsor Park and the Lisburn Road area.

Football fans may find this useful when visiting Windsor Park, while Lisburn Road is better known for shops, restaurants and local businesses.

Good stop for: football fans, shopping and south Belfast.

Stop 12 — Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich

Best for: Irish language, arts and culture

Stop 12 brings the tour onto the Falls Road and serves Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, an important centre for Irish language, culture and arts in Belfast.

Visitors interested in understanding Belfast beyond its most photographed landmarks should consider exploring the cultural side of west Belfast as well as its political history.

Good stop for: culture, Irish language, arts and visitors wanting a deeper understanding of west Belfast.

Stop 13 — Falls Road

Best for: Falls Road, Bobby Sands mural and republican history

Stop 13 is one of the most recognised stops on the Belfast sightseeing route.

The Falls Road is internationally associated with Belfast's modern political history and republican community. One of the best-known landmarks in the area is the Bobby Sands mural.

Visitors should remember that the Falls Road is not an outdoor museum or theme park. It is a living residential and commercial community, and its political history remains personal to many people who live there.

Good stop for: political history, murals and visitors trying to understand Belfast's recent past.

Complete Falls Road Belfast visitor guide

Stop 14 — International Wall Murals

Best for: International Wall, political murals, Peace Gates and St Peter's Cathedral

Stop 14 serves the International Wall, where visitors can see a changing collection of political and international murals.

The area also provides access towards Belfast's Peace Gates and St Peter's Cathedral. This is a useful stop if you want to spend more time viewing the murals rather than seeing them only from the bus.

Good stop for: murals, photography, political history and Belfast history.

Guide to Belfast's political murals

Stop 15 — Belfast Peace Wall

Best for: Belfast Peace Wall

If you're asking which hop-on hop-off stop you need for the Belfast Peace Wall, get off at Stop 15.

The Peace Walls are among the locations visitors most commonly associate with Belfast's recent history. They were created to separate communities during periods of conflict and remain part of the physical landscape of parts of the city today.

Seeing a Peace Wall can help visitors understand Belfast's geography in a way that reading about the Troubles alone cannot. These barriers sit between real communities and are connected with events that remain within living memory.

Good stop for: first-time visitors, history and anyone wanting to better understand Belfast's divided past.

Complete Belfast Peace Wall visitor guide

Stop 16 — Spectrum Centre / Shankill Road

Best for: Shankill Road and Loyalist murals

Stop 16 brings visitors onto the Shankill Road, another area central to understanding Belfast's political and community history.

Where the Falls Road is strongly associated with republican and nationalist history, the Shankill Road is strongly associated with unionist and loyalist communities.

Seeing both areas is important if your aim is to understand the city rather than hear only one version of its history.

Good stop for: political history, murals and visitors wanting context from both sides of Belfast's traditional divide.

Complete Shankill Road visitor guide

Stop 17 — Shankill Memorial Garden

Best for: Shankill Memorial Garden and surrounding murals

Stop 17 allows visitors to explore more of the Shankill area, including the Shankill Memorial Garden and nearby murals.

This stop is particularly relevant to visitors taking a deeper interest in the area's community history rather than simply passing through on the bus.

Good stop for: memorial history, murals and deeper exploration of the Shankill.

Stop 18 — Crumlin Road

Best for: Crumlin Road Gaol and McConnell's Distillery

Stop 18 is the stop to use for Crumlin Road Gaol.

The former prison is one of Belfast's major historical visitor attractions and provides another perspective on the city's social and political history.

Because entering the Gaol takes substantially longer than simply viewing it from the outside, visitors planning a tour should factor the attraction into their sightseeing schedule.

Good stop for: history, indoor attractions and visitors spending a full day or longer in Belfast.

Complete guide to Crumlin Road Gaol

Stop 19 — Clifton Street

Best for: Clifton House and historic north Belfast

Stop 19 is the final numbered stop before the sightseeing bus makes its way back towards Belfast city centre.

Clifton Street provides access to Clifton House, one of the locations connected with Belfast's social history. From here the route continues back towards Belfast City Hall through the Donegall Street and Cathedral Quarter area.

Good stop for: Belfast history and visitors interested in going beyond the best-known tourist attractions.

Which Belfast Hop-On Hop-Off Stops Should You Actually Get Off At?

You do not need to get off at all 19 stops. Trying to explore every stop properly in a single day would leave very little time to enjoy any of them.

For a first visit, we would normally build your hop-off choices around what interests you most.

• Titanic & maritime history: Stops 3, 4 and 5
• Food & markets: Stop 6
• Queen's Quarter & museums: Stop 10
• Political history & murals: Stops 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17
• Peace Wall: Stop 15
• Crumlin Road Gaol: Stop 18
• Belfast city centre: Stops 1 and 7

The best strategy is normally to choose two or three substantial hop-offs, rather than spend the entire day watching the clock.

Which Stop Is Best for Titanic Belfast?

Stop 5 is the dedicated stop for Titanic Belfast. Get off here for Titanic Belfast and SS Nomadic. If you want to explore more of Titanic Quarter and Belfast's maritime heritage, Stops 3 and 4 are also worth considering.

Which Stop Is Best for the Belfast Peace Wall?

Stop 15 is the Belfast Peace Wall stop. Visitors particularly interested in Belfast's political history may want to combine Stop 15 with the Falls Road at Stop 13, International Wall at Stop 14 and Shankill Road at Stops 16 and 17.

Which Stop Is Best for Crumlin Road Gaol?

Use Stop 18 for Crumlin Road Gaol. If you plan to enter the attraction rather than simply see it from the bus, allow enough time before returning for a later sightseeing service.

Which Stop Is Best for Queen's University and the Ulster Museum?

Use Stop 10. This stop is particularly useful because Queen's University, the Ulster Museum and Botanic Gardens can all be explored in the same part of south Belfast.

Can I Start the Belfast Hop-On Hop-Off Tour at Any Stop?

Yes. Although Stop 1 at Donegall Square West beside Belfast City Hall is the recommended main starting point, you can join the Belfast Hop-On Hop-Off tour at any official stop along the route during operating hours.

How Long Does It Take to Travel Around All 19 Stops?

If you remain aboard and complete the route without hopping off, allow approximately 90 minutes for the full Belfast sightseeing circuit.

Actual journey time can vary because the route operates on public roads and is therefore affected by normal Belfast traffic, roadworks, events and temporary diversions.

How Often Can I Hop On and Off?

You can leave and rejoin the sightseeing service during the validity of your ticket. Buses currently operate at approximately 30-minute intervals, although traffic and operational conditions can affect exact arrival times.

You do not need to return to the same bus you arrived on. Explore the area, return to the designated stop and join a later service.

Can I Flag Down a Belfast Sightseeing Bus Between Stops?

No. Passengers should board and leave the bus only at the official designated stops.

What Is the Best Belfast Hop-On Hop-Off Stop?

There isn't one best stop for everybody.

Titanic Belfast at Stop 5 is one of the strongest choices for maritime history and first-time visitors. Stop 10 works exceptionally well if you want Queen's University, the Ulster Museum and Botanic Gardens. Stop 15 is the key stop for the Belfast Peace Wall, while Stop 18 is the stop for Crumlin Road Gaol.

And if your main interest is Belfast's political history, the section from Stops 13 to 17 is particularly important.

Plan Your Belfast Sightseeing Day

The 19 stops connect very different sides of Belfast. You can begin beside Belfast City Hall, travel through the city's maritime history in Titanic Quarter, explore the university district, hear the stories of the Falls and Shankill, see the Peace Wall and continue towards Crumlin Road before returning to the heart of Belfast.

You can stay on for the complete circuit. Or you can make the route your own.

Choose the stops that interest you, hop off and explore Belfast at your own pace, then simply join the next bus when you're ready to continue your tour. Don't forget to use the live stop tracker on our website – it shows the estimated arrival time of the next bus and uses your current location to help you find the nearest stop on Google Maps.