Downtown Crossing is a downtown pedestrian shopping district, with a bunch of shoe stores, jewelry stores, and many other stores as well. At lunch hour during the week it's packed with businesspeople. There is a connection in the station to the Orange line. In the station as well as outside pushcart retailers offer an international array of merchandise as well as nourishing snacks and delicious treats. Boston's mainstays, Filene's and Macy's , are located in this area and shoppers can get into both right from the underground without reaching street level!.

 

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Here you will find the queen of discount shoe-dom, DSW: Designer Shoe Warehouse; and the Jeweler's Building, a diamond palace for those of us who find Tiffany and Shreve, Crump & Low a bit too pricey. Interspersed are stores like HMV, Marshalls, Contempo, Gap Outlet, and Barnes & Noble.

Unlike the chain stores that have taken its name, the original Filene's Basement (426 Washington St) here regularly carries marked-down items like Armani jackets, Ferragamo shoes, Movado watches, Mark Cross handbags and Ralph Lauren sheets. Watch the dates marked on price tags - if an item has been in the store over two weeks it'll be reduced an extra percentage. After Filene's, wander down Washington Street toward Quincy Market, passing the Old South Meeting House (where the Boston Tea Party was conceived in 1773). Here you can visit Fanueil Hall complex (it's a big outdoor mall full of chain stores) and wander through Haymarket (full of fresh fruit and vegetable vendors on Saturdays) into the North End.