South Station Bus Terminal
The South Station Bus Terminal, owned by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, is the main gateway for long-distance coach buses in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located at 700 Atlantic Avenue, at the intersection with Beach Street, in the Chinatown/Leather District neighborhoods. The facility is immediately south-southwest of the main MBTA/Amtrak South Station terminal, and is located above the station platforms and tracks.
Main entrance on Atlantic Avenue, Boston
Main hall and skylight, surrounded by food concessions and ticket sales counters
Southward-looking aerial view of highway and railway approaches, with the bus terminal roof parking visible at lower left
Bus terminal on Atlantic Avenue, viewed looking southeast before construction started on the expansion in 2020. The entire structure is elevated above multiple railway tracks.
Chinatown, Boston is a neighborhood located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the only surviving historic ethnic Chinese enclave in New England since the demise of the Chinatowns in Providence, Rhode Island and Portland, Maine after the 1950s. Because of the high population of Asians and Asian Americans living in this area of Boston, there is an abundance of Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants located in Chinatown. It is one of the most densely populated residential areas in Boston and serves as the largest center of its East Asian and Southeast Asian cultural life.
The paifang gate in 2013
Strike breakers outside of Sampson's Mill, some of whom would later move to found Chinatown
A view from within Chinatown looking towards the paifang
Chinese New Year festival in Boston's Chinatown, 2009