Jamestown and the Ga shore
2.5 km · 3 hrs · best 7-10am, with a local guide · 7 stops
- Canoes at dawn
- Jamestown Lighthouse
- Fort James
- Chale Wote murals
- Deo Gratias archive
- Salaga Market
- Jamestown Café
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This interactive map of Accra (Ghana) brings together 125 hand-picked places: 34 attractions, 34 restaurants, 26 cafés and 31 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.
· Curated by the HOLASIM team · How we make the maps
Tap a route to see it drawn on the map, stop by stop.
2.5 km · 3 hrs · best 7-10am, with a local guide · 7 stops
4 km · 4 hrs · best 8am-noon, separate tickets at each site · 6 stops
3 km · 5 hrs · best 4pm till late, app taxi home · 6 stops
8 km · 6 hrs · best Saturday or Sunday; bring cash for gate fees · 6 stops
12 km · 6 hrs · best on a weekday; move by Bolt and avoid 5-7pm · 7 stops
Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park · Accra Central
Marble gardens, fountains and the statue of the man who declared Ghana independent in 1957.
Tip: Open 8:30am-11pm. Not free: GH¢100 foreigners, GH¢25 Ghanaians (2026). Best at sunset.
🚇 Trotro or taxi to Accra Central; entrance on High Street.
Featured in: Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park (knmp.gov.gh) · Graphic Online
Show on mapKwame Nkrumah Mausoleum · Accra Central
The first president's tomb under an upturned marble tree, with a museum of his personal effects.
Tip: The museum is covered by the park ticket. Guides charge separately: agree the price first.
🚇 Inside the Memorial Park, steps from the High Street gate.
Featured in: GMMB · Wikipedia · knmp.gov.gh
Show on mapNational Museum of Ghana · Adabraka
Reopened after years shut: Ashanti stools, Akan gold, antique kente and archaeology from all Ghana.
Tip: 9am-4:30pm daily. Adults: GH¢80 foreigners, GH¢20 Ghanaians (2026 rate).
🚇 2 Barnes Road, Adabraka; trotro to Kinbu then a six-block walk.
Featured in: National Museum of Ghana (nationalmuseum.ghana-net.com) · GMMB
Show on mapW.E.B Du Bois Center · Cantonments
The house where the father of Pan-Africanism died, with his tomb, library and desk left as they were.
Tip: Expansion works close it at times: call ahead. Ask them to open his personal library for you.
🚇 1st Circular Road, Cantonments; a ten-minute taxi from Osu.
Featured in: W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre · Graphic Online
Show on mapBlack Star Square (Independence Square) · Osu
The seafront parade ground where Ghana marches every 6 March: concrete, sea wind and the black star.
Tip: No shade, no water on sale: bring your own. By 5pm the light and the breeze change everything.
🚇 On the seafront road between Osu Castle and the Arts Centre; walkable from Osu.
Featured in: Visit Ghana · Graphic Online
Show on mapBlack Star Gate · Osu
The arch crowned by the black star reading 'AD 1957 · Freedom and Justice': the Accra photo.
Tip: The eternal flame burns at its base; the east pavement gives the best angle.
🚇 At the north end of Black Star Square, on Liberation Road.
Featured in: Visit Ghana · Wikipedia
Show on mapIndependence Arch · Osu
Raised for the Queen's 1961 visit, it still faces the open Atlantic from the square's southern edge.
Tip: Use the crossing: traffic on the seafront road does not stop for anyone.
🚇 South edge of Black Star Square, facing the sea.
Featured in: Visit Ghana · Wikipedia
Show on mapOsu Castle · Osu
A 1661 Danish fort above the surf: once seat of government and a slave-trade embarkation point.
Tip: Guided visits only, with short hours: confirm the same day and carry photo ID.
🚇 On the seafront road, a ten-minute walk from Black Star Square.
Featured in: GMMB · City Life Accra
Show on mapJames Fort · James Town
A 1673 English fort that served as a prison until recently; the neighbourhood grew round its walls.
Tip: The inside opens irregularly. Hire a neighbourhood guide at the gate: it is cheap and changes the visit.
🚇 On High Street, Jamestown, next to the lighthouse; trotro to Bukom then walk.
Featured in: Wikipedia (Fort James) · GMMB
Show on mapJamestown Lighthouse · James Town
Thirty-four steps up to Accra's best balcony: the fishing harbour, the zinc roofs and the Atlantic.
Tip: The keeper charges a tip to climb; agree it downstairs. In harmattan the horizon turns milky.
🚇 End of High Street, Jamestown; steps from Fort James.
Featured in: Wikipedia (Jamestown Lighthouse) · Graphic Online
Show on map“Deo Gratias” Photography Archive · James Town
Accra's oldest photo studio, working since 1922: thousands of studio portraits of the Ga city and its people.
Tip: 9am-7pm. They can shoot you an analogue portrait; ask on arrival, it takes a while.
🚇 146 High Street, Jamestown, on the way to the lighthouse.
Featured in: Deo Gratias Studio · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapBukom Boxing Arena · Bukom
The ring of the neighbourhood that produced world champions: Azumah Nelson, Ike Quartey and Bukom's gyms.
Tip: Fight nights are announced days ahead: ask at the street gyms or listen to local radio.
🚇 Bukom, Jamestown; trotro along Zion Road then a four-block walk.
Featured in: Prensa ghanesa (Graphic, Citi) · Ghana Boxing Authority
Show on mapMantse Agbonaa · James Town
The Ga chief's square-cum-pitch: epicentre of Chale Wote and of the murals that stay up all year.
Tip: Chale Wote falls in mid-August, not now: in November you get the murals without the crowd.
🚇 Next to the Jamestown lighthouse, steps off High Street.
Featured in: Chale Wote Street Art Festival · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapNational Centre for Arts and Culture · Ministries
A seafront maze of kente, mask, drum and glass-bead stalls, with craftspeople working on site.
Tip: The first price is three or four times the real one. Ask to see the loom: woven kente feels different.
🚇 On High Street between Black Star Square and Jamestown; walkable from the square.
Featured in: Centre for National Culture, Accra · Visit Ghana
Show on mapAno · Osu
Curator Nana Oforiatta Ayim's research centre and gallery: archive, film and current Ghanaian art.
Tip: Opens for shows and by appointment: check their Instagram before crossing town.
🚇 Osu, steps from the seafront; taxi or a walk from Oxford Street.
Featured in: ANO Institute of Arts & Knowledge · prensa cultural
Show on mapNubuke Foundation · East Legon
A concrete-and-light building in East Legon: Ghanaian art shows, library, shop and a courtyard cafe.
Tip: Closed Mondays and between installs. Entry is free, but the editions shop is worth the money.
🚇 Boundary Road, East Legon; taxi or Bolt from Accra Mall, ten minutes.
Featured in: Nubuke Foundation (nubukefoundation.org)
Show on mapArtists Alliance Gallery · La (Labadi)
Three seafront floors holding painter Ablade Glover's collection: fantasy coffins, textiles and painting.
Tip: Go up to the top floor: the Atlantic view and the aeroplane-shaped coffins are up there.
🚇 On the La seafront road towards Labadi Beach; taxi from Osu.
Featured in: Artists Alliance Gallery · guías de arte de Accra
Show on mapGallery 1957, Kempinski Gold Coast City · Ridge
The gallery that put Ghanaian artists on walls in London and New York, tucked inside the Kempinski hotel.
Tip: Free entry, Monday to Saturday. There is a second space at Galleria, Airport City.
🚇 Gamel Abdul Nasser Road, Ridge; enter through the hotel lobby.
Featured in: Gallery 1957 (gallery1957.com) · Kempinski Gold Coast City
Show on mapAsomdwe Park · Osu
A seafront garden holding president John Atta Mills' tomb: shade, lawn and no noise at all.
Tip: There is a military guard next door: no photos towards the castle or its gates.
🚇 Castle Drive, beside Osu Castle; a walk from Black Star Square.
Featured in: GMMB · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapEfua Sutherland Children's Park · Ridge
The park playwright Efua Sutherland dreamed up: rides, big trees and neighbourhood parties on Sundays.
Tip: Rides are paid per token, not with the entry fee. Bring small notes.
🚇 Ridge, between Castle Road and Barnes Road; walkable from the National Museum.
Featured in: Accra city parks · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapAccra Zoo · Achimota Forest
Inside Achimota Forest: lions, monkeys and birds, with the coolest air anywhere in the city.
Tip: It reopened with reinforced fencing after the 2022 accident. Keep well back from the bars.
🚇 Achimota Forest; taxi from Achimota Retail Centre, ten minutes.
Featured in: Forestry Commission Ghana · Graphic Online
Show on mapUniversity of Ghana Botanical Gardens · Legon
Palms, bamboo groves and shaded trails inside the Legon campus; the students' favourite picnic ground.
Tip: Not to be confused with Aburi Gardens, an hour up the hills and outside this map.
🚇 Legon campus; trotro to Okponglo then walk up the main avenue.
Featured in: University of Ghana, Legon
Show on mapUniversity of Ghana Registry · Legon
Red-roofed colonial architecture on a hill: the Balme tower and the most photogenic avenue in town.
Tip: You can walk in freely by day. Climb to the tower square: the whole campus opens up from there.
🚇 Legon; trotro from Madina or Okponglo station.
Featured in: University of Ghana · Wikipedia
Show on mapDespite Automobile Museum · East Legon
A Ghanaian tycoon's private collection of vintage classics and supercars, now opened to the public.
Tip: Tickets go online and weekends fill with families: go early.
🚇 East Legon; Bolt from A&C Mall, five minutes.
Featured in: Despite Automobile Museum (despiteautomuseum.com)
Show on mapAccra Sports Stadium · Osu
Home of Hearts of Oak and the Black Stars: forty thousand people singing highlife in the stands.
Tip: Tickets are sold at the gate on matchday; pay cash and get in early.
🚇 On Liberation Road, steps from Black Star Square.
Featured in: Ghana Football Association · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapEl-Wak Stadium · Cantonments
A military stadium that turns into a stage in December: the historic home of the AfroFuture festival.
Tip: For Detty December, buy festival tickets before you fly: they sell out and the price climbs.
🚇 Cantonments; Bolt from Osu, ten minutes.
Featured in: Prensa ghanesa · AfroFuture
Show on mapAccra International Conference Centre · Ridge
A 1991 modernist slab that hosts trade fairs, concerts and Ghana's biggest political set pieces.
Tip: The programme changes week to week: check the board at the entrance or the day's press.
🚇 Castle Road, Ridge; steps from Black Star Square.
Featured in: Accra International Conference Centre · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapAlliance Française · Airport Residential
A garden stage where the best of highlife and afrobeats play before they graduate to stadiums.
Tip: Many gigs are free or near it; the line-up goes up on their Instagram every Monday.
🚇 Liberation Link, Airport Residential; Bolt from Osu.
Featured in: Alliance Française d'Accra
Show on mapJames Town (Ngleshie Alata) · Jamestown
Accra's oldest Ga quarter: peeling colonial houses, drying fishing nets, boxing gyms and murals.
Tip: Ask before photographing people or houses; here a camera that arrives unannounced is rude.
🚇 Trotro from Tudu or Rawlings Park, or on foot from Makola.
Featured in: Visit Ghana · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapOsu · Oxford Street
The street that never sleeps: bars, chop bars, kelewele sellers and Accra's best people-watching.
Tip: After dark stick to the lit pavement and order the ride on an app: no haggling, no detours.
🚇 Trotro to Danquah Circle, then walk down Oxford Street.
Featured in: Guías de Accra · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapPolo Club · Airport City
A polo ground in the middle of the city that fills with design fairs and food trucks in the dry season.
Tip: Weekend fairs are the fastest way to buy Ghanaian design in one place.
🚇 Airport City; Bolt from Marina Mall, five minutes.
Featured in: Accra Polo Club · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapLa Beach · La (Labadi)
Accra's public beach: horses, drumming, Sunday reggae and stalls grilling tilapia on the sand.
Tip: It is not free: there is a gate fee, higher on holidays. The current is strong: do not swim out.
🚇 Labadi Road; take a trotro towards La or Teshie and get off at the beach gate.
Featured in: Wikipedia (Labadi Beach) · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapLaboma Beach Resort · La (Labadi)
The beach next door to Labadi, quieter and shaded by palms: the option when Sunday gets too dense.
Tip: It also charges entry. A red flag means something: the Atlantic here has a real undertow.
🚇 On the La coast, taxi from Labadi Road.
Featured in: Guías de playas de Accra · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapShatta Beach · James Town
Where Jamestown's painted canoes land: at six in the morning the day's catch comes ashore.
Tip: This is a working harbour, not a beach: go early, with a local guide, and do not swim.
🚇 Below the Jamestown lighthouse; walk down from High Street.
Featured in: Prensa ghanesa · guías de Jamestown
Show on mapBuka Restaurant · Osu
The best front door to Ghanaian and Nigerian food: jollof, egusi, banku and tilapia on a raised terrace.
Tip: Lunch fills up with office crowds: get there at noon sharp or after 2pm.
🚇 10th Osu Street, Osu; steps off Oxford Street.
Featured in: The Infatuation Accra 2026 · Time Out Accra
Show on mapSantoku · Airport West
Accra's serious sushi: precisely cut fish, a wooden counter and a sake list that genuinely surprises.
Tip: Book ahead: Thursdays and Fridays sell out. The omakase has to be requested in advance.
🚇 Airport West Road; Bolt from Osu, fifteen minutes without traffic.
Featured in: The Infatuation Accra 2026 · Time Out Accra
Show on mapTea Baa · South La
A multi-level terrace with Ghanaian classics, margaritas and the rooftop where Accra starts its night.
Tip: The rooftop opens as the sun drops. In the dry season there is no tarpaulin: the best time to go up.
🚇 South La, near Ring Road East; Bolt from Osu, seven minutes.
Featured in: The Infatuation Accra 2026
Show on mapSandbox · South La
Pool, sand and cocktails facing the Atlantic, with the pan-African kitchen of Makosa inside.
Tip: Sundays bring a minimum spend and a queue. In December book ahead: it hosts Detty December parties.
🚇 South La, on the coast; Bolt from Osu, ten minutes.
Featured in: The Infatuation Accra 2026
Show on mapPomona · Osu
Wood-fired Neapolitan pizza and pasta in an Osu courtyard, with a sister bar next door to continue.
Tip: The courtyard is the point; if it rains the indoor room is small, so book.
🚇 13th Lane, Osu; steps off Oxford Street.
Featured in: The Infatuation Accra 2026
Show on mapAzmera · Roman Ridge
A proper Ghanaian buffet: fufu, kontomire, red red, goat stew and live highlife at the weekend.
Tip: If you have never eaten fufu, ask them to show you: you swallow it, you do not chew. Right hand only.
🚇 Sir Arku Korsah Road, Roman Ridge; Bolt from Marina Mall.
Featured in: The Infatuation Accra 2026
Show on mapThe Republic Bar & Grill · Osu
The bar that invented the akpeteshie Kokroko and the pavement where all Accra mixes, Wednesday to Saturday.
Tip: Akpeteshie is palm spirit and it hits. Ask for the Kokroko over ice and take it slowly.
🚇 Asafoatse Tempong Street, Osu; steps off Oxford Street.
Featured in: World's 50 Best Discovery · Time Out Accra
Show on mapBistro 22 · Labone
A Labone bistro that built its name on beef: properly grilled cuts, white linen and low light.
Tip: Book on Fridays. The weekday lunch menu costs far less than the evening carte.
🚇 Labone; Bolt from Osu, seven minutes.
Featured in: Time Out Accra · guías de Accra
Show on mapLe Magellan · Osu
Old-school Franco-Mediterranean seafood and pasta, with a wine list that is rare in Accra.
Tip: Ask what fish came in that day: the menu is long but the good stuff is whatever landed fresh.
🚇 Osu, near Ring Road East; a walk from Danquah Circle.
Featured in: Time Out Accra · guías de Accra
Show on mapLe Tandem Lodge & French Restaurant · Cantonments
French cooking in a Cantonments garden, with the diplomatic crowd that has gone for thirty years.
Tip: Closed Sundays and booked by phone, not by app. Warn them if you are more than six.
🚇 Cantonments; Bolt from Osu, eight minutes.
Featured in: Time Out Accra · guías de Accra
Show on mapMamma Mia East Legon · East Legon
Wood-fired pizza in a bougainvillea courtyard: the long-standing Italian, now in East Legon.
Tip: Saturday nights mean a long wait: put your name down and have a drink at the bar.
🚇 East Legon; Bolt from A&C Mall, five minutes.
Featured in: Guías de Accra · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapAsanka Local · Osu
Ghanaian food served in the clay bowl it is named after: fufu, light soup and banku with tilapia.
Tip: Goat light soup is what locals order; ask for it medium if you cannot take heat.
🚇 Osu, near Oxford Street; a walk from Danquah Circle.
Featured in: Guías de Accra · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapZen Garden · Labone
A garden with a pond and an Asian kitchen in Labone: the quietest lunch in this part of Accra.
Tip: Mosquitoes come out at dusk in the garden: bring repellent or ask for an inside table.
🚇 Labone; Bolt from Osu, five minutes.
Featured in: Guías de Accra
Show on mapZion Thai Restaurant · Osu
An Osu Thai with green curry that is genuinely hot and pavement tables for watching the street.
Tip: 'Thai spicy' here really means Thai spicy. If in doubt order medium and add the chilli on the side.
🚇 Osu, steps off Oxford Street.
Featured in: Guías de Accra
Show on mapGold Coast Restaurant & Bar · Airport Residential
Ghanaian cooking with linen and a colonial name: grilled tilapia, kelewele and a long cocktail list.
Tip: Order the whole tilapia as soon as you sit: it takes half an hour on the grill.
🚇 Airport Residential; Bolt from Marina Mall, five minutes.
Featured in: Guías de Accra
Show on mapKona Bar and Grill · Oxford Street, Osu
Grill and cold beer right on Oxford Street: the perfect step between the street and the long night.
Tip: Order chichinga, the spiced meat skewers: that is what the pavement eats at that hour.
🚇 Oxford Street, Osu; steps from Danquah Circle.
Featured in: Guías de Accra
Show on map+233 Jazz Bar and Grill · North Ridge
Live jazz and highlife under a tin roof, with a grill outside and Accra's best resident band.
Tip: The band starts late, around 10pm. There is a weekend cover, paid at the door.
🚇 North Ridge, near Ring Road Central; Bolt from Osu.
Featured in: Time Out Accra · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapBloom Bar · Osu
An Osu courtyard with DJs, afrobeats and the youngest crowd around: it fills after midnight.
Tip: Almost everything is paid by MoMo or cash; do not count on a card working at three in the morning.
🚇 Osu, steps off Oxford Street.
Featured in: Guías de Accra · prensa ghanesa
Show on mapThe Honeysuckle - Labone · Labone
A neighbourhood pub with big screens, burgers and draught beer: this is where Accra watches the match.
Tip: When the Black Stars play, arrive an hour early or you will be standing.
🚇 Dade Street, Labone; Bolt from Osu, five minutes.
Featured in: Guías de Accra
Show on mapClub Icon · Kanda
One of Accra's big clubs: velvet booths, international guests and the peak of Detty December.
Tip: In December there are lists and table minimums: if you go those weeks, sort it on Instagram first.
🚇 UDS Street, Kanda; Bolt from Osu, eight minutes.
Featured in: Guías de nightlife de Accra
Show on mapAsaase Pa · Accra Central
A downtown canteen where the Makola traders eat: jollof, kenkey and fried fish, served fast.
Tip: Noon sharp: after 2pm the good trays are gone and the room empties.
🚇 Accra Central, steps from the Nkrumah Memorial Park.
Featured in: Guías de Accra Central
Show on mapOsekan Bar · James Town
A terrace on the Jamestown rocks: cold beer, charcoal fish and the Atlantic breaking below.
Tip: Sunset is the hour. Head back by app-ordered taxi: the road back is dark.
🚇 Jamestown, on the shore; a walk from High Street.
Featured in: Guías de Jamestown
Show on mapBamaayen Waakye · Accra Central
A waakye stand downtown: rice and beans with gari, egg, spaghetti and a spoonful of shito on top.
Tip: Waakye is breakfast and early lunch: when the pot is empty they shut. Do not turn up at 3pm.
🚇 Accra Central, steps from the Nkrumah Memorial Park.
Featured in: OSM · reporteo de calle en Accra Central
Show on mapRoad side Waakye seller (Auntie Muni) · Labone
Accra's most famous waakye, at the roadside: a queue of cars, plastic tubs and its own shito.
Tip: Auntie Muni died in January 2024 and the stand passed to her family: check the day before you go.
🚇 On Giffard Road, between Labone and Cantonments; cars pull over on the shoulder.
Featured in: OSM · Graphic Online (obituario de Auntie Muni, enero 2024)
Show on mapJah Knows Waakye · Osu
The Osu waakye you eat standing up, with shito so hot it sends you running for a sachet of water.
Tip: Ask for it 'full': egg, spaghetti, gari and meat. Pay cash or by MoMo.
🚇 Osu, steps from the seafront; a walk from Oxford Street.
Featured in: OSM · reporteo de calle en Osu
Show on mapObama Waakye · Kokomlemle
Named after the 2009 presidential visit; it is still one huge pot and a long neighbourhood queue.
Tip: Bring your own container if you can: more and more people in Accra do, because of the plastic.
🚇 Kokomlemle, near Ring Road Central; trotro from Circle.
Featured in: OSM · reporteo de calle en Accra Central
Show on mapKatakumbe Special Kenkey · Osu
Ga kenkey: a ball of fermented maize wrapped in leaf, served with fried fish, pepper and raw onion.
Tip: Kenkey is meant to taste sour: eat with your hand and use the fish as your spoon.
🚇 Osu, steps off Oxford Street.
Featured in: OSM · reporteo de calle en Osu
Show on mapAntie Naa’s Special Banku And Tilapia · Spintex
Banku with whole charcoal-grilled tilapia and pepper ground in a mortar: the east coast's night dish.
Tip: The tilapia is weighed before cooking: agree weight and price before it hits the coals.
🚇 Spintex Road; trotro east from Accra Mall.
Featured in: OSM · reporteo de calle en Nungua
Show on mapAwonye Chop Bar · Madina
A wooden-bench chop bar: hand-pounded fufu, goat light soup and palm nut soup thick as cream.
Tip: They bring a bowl of water to wash your hand: it is part of the service, not a drink.
🚇 Madina; trotro from Legon or Okponglo.
Featured in: OSM · reporteo de calle en Madina
Show on mapFrankies Chop Bar · Nima
A chop bar in Nima, Accra's Muslim quarter: rice, charcoal meat and night tea stalls round the corner.
Tip: Nima is fine by day and busy; at night go in with someone local and keep your phone pocketed.
🚇 Nima, near the market; trotro from Kanda Highway.
Featured in: OSM · reporteo de calle en Nima
Show on mapJoysco Khebab · Kokomlemle
Meat skewers rolled in a groundnut-and-pepper mix over an oil-drum grill: this is Accra's khebab.
Tip: Khebab appears at dusk. Say 'no pepper' if you do not want the hot mix on top.
🚇 Kokomlemle; trotro from Circle.
Featured in: OSM · reporteo de calle en Kokomlemle
Show on mapBox 86 · Osu
A shipping-container bar in Osu with cheap beer, loud music and tables spilling onto the pavement.
Tip: This is a warm-up spot, not a closer: by midnight the crowd has moved to Oxford Street.
🚇 Osu, steps from the seafront.
Featured in: Guías de nightlife de Accra
Show on mapBird Cage · Osu
A small Osu bar with signature cocktails and listening nights: the opposite of an afrobeats floor.
Tip: It opens only a few nights a week: check their Instagram before crossing town.
🚇 Osu, steps off Oxford Street.
Featured in: Guías de nightlife de Accra
Show on mapOsu Beach Club · Osu
A bar on the sand beside Osu Castle: sunset reggae, plastic chairs and the sea right in front.
Tip: The water here is not for swimming. Come for the breeze and the sunset, not for a dip.
🚇 On the Osu shore, steps from Castle Drive.
Featured in: Guías de nightlife de Accra
Show on mapGod's Time The Best Tea Canteen · Akweteyman
Ghana's real coffee shop: Lipton tea with condensed milk, Milo, fried egg and sugar bread.
Tip: Breakfast is eaten standing, before 9am. Ask for 'tea with egg' and the sandwich is built in front of you.
🚇 Akweteyman; trotro from Lapaz or Achimota.
Featured in: OSM · reporteo de calle en Akweteyman
Show on mapCafé Kwae, One Airport Square · Airport City
A specialty cafe with Ghanaian beans and its own baking, inside Airport City's best-looking building.
Tip: Ask for the Ghanaian-origin coffee: Volta Region beans exist and almost nobody orders them.
🚇 One Airport Square, Airport City; steps from Marina Mall.
Featured in: Café Kwae (lovecafekwae.com) · Time Out Accra
Show on mapKukun · Osu
Cafe, bookshop and workspace in an Osu house: Ghanaian books, a good flat white and quiet.
Tip: There are talks and readings most weeks; the schedule lives on their site.
🚇 Koi Street, Osu; walkable from Oxford Street.
Featured in: Kukun (kukun.info) · guías de Accra
Show on mapJamestown Coffee Company · Osu
An all-day cafe with a shaded patio, long breakfasts and its own roast named after Jamestown.
Tip: There is another branch in East Legon. The patio beats the indoor room: ask for an outside table.
🚇 Osu, near Ring Road East; a walk from Danquah Circle.
Featured in: The Infatuation Accra 2026
Show on mapJamestown Café · James Town
A cafe and cultural space on High Street: community radio, theatre rehearsals and fresh bofrot.
Tip: It is a fixed stop on Jamestown tours: ask whether there is an open rehearsal that afternoon.
🚇 High Street, Jamestown; steps from Fort James.
Featured in: OSM · guías de Jamestown
Show on mapTheia Coffee House · Airport Residential
A small, serious specialty bar: pour-overs, properly dialled espresso and same-day pastry.
Tip: It closes early, around 6pm: a morning and afternoon place, not a night one.
🚇 John Churcher Loop, Airport Residential; Bolt from Osu.
Featured in: OSM · guías de café de Accra
Show on mapMilkBox Café · Labone
A bright Labone cafe with local roast, shakes and the best carrot cake in the neighbourhood.
Tip: It is small and fills on Sundays: if you plan to work, arrive before 10am.
🚇 Labone; Bolt from Osu, five minutes.
Featured in: OSM · guías de café de Accra
Show on mapMango & Wheat · East Legon
An East Legon bakery-cafe with sourdough, tarts and juices from whatever fruit is in season.
Tip: Bread comes out mid-morning and sells out: if you want it, order the day before.
🚇 East Legon; Bolt from A&C Mall.
Featured in: OSM · guías de East Legon
Show on mapChoco' Pain · Dzorwulu
A French bakery in Dzorwulu: croissants, baguettes and the breakfast of everyone who lives nearby.
Tip: Croissants come out early and vanish; after 10am little is left.
🚇 Dzorwulu; Bolt from Airport City, five minutes.
Featured in: OSM · guías de Accra
Show on mapDawadawa labs · Osu
An Osu micro-roastery working with West African beans and selling bags of them to take home.
Tip: It is Accra's best edible souvenir: ask for whole beans, they travel better.
🚇 Osu, steps from Ring Road East.
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Show on mapSub Box · Labone
A coffee-and-sandwich bar built into a Labone container: fast, cheap and with wifi that works.
Tip: There are two or three tables, no more: plan to take it away and sit in the park.
🚇 Labone; a walk from the Du Bois Centre.
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Show on mapGet Stuffed Deli · Labone
A Labone deli with big sandwiches, samosas and imported goods that are hard to find elsewhere.
Tip: Good for assembling a picnic before Labadi: water, ice and sandwiches in one stop.
🚇 Dade Street, Labone; steps from the Honeysuckle.
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Show on mapLabone Coffee Shop · Labone
A neighbourhood cafe with wooden tables, the day's papers and people who come to read, not to work.
Tip: A good mid-morning stop between the Du Bois Centre and lunch in Osu: it sits right between them.
🚇 Labone; a walk from the Du Bois Centre.
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Show on mapSotto Zerro · Osu
An Italian gelateria in Osu: made on site, with mango, coconut and whatever fruit is in season.
Tip: Street ice cream in Accra is sachet FanIce: come here for the other thing, the artisan scoop.
🚇 Osu, steps off Oxford Street.
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Show on mapAfrikiko · Kanda
A historic terrace by Ring Road: beer, juices, kelewele and everyone watching the traffic go by.
Tip: Order kelewele: ripe plantain fried with ginger and pepper. It is the national night snack.
🚇 Liberation Road, Kanda; trotro from Circle.
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Show on mapPâte à Choux · Labone
A tiny French patisserie in Labone: éclairs, tarts and the best café au lait on the block.
Tip: Small output, short hours: if the lights are on, go in, because tomorrow may be different.
🚇 Labone; a walk from Dade Street.
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Show on mapFinethinks Patisserie · North Ridge
A North Ridge bakery with cakes to order and Ghanaian sugar bread straight out of the oven.
Tip: Warm sugar bread with tea is the Ghanaian breakfast almost no visitor tries.
🚇 North Ridge; trotro from Circle.
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Show on mapPark View Cafe · Ridge
A simple cafe facing the Ridge greenery: the pause between the National Museum and Black Star Square.
Tip: Shade and a clean toilet, which in central Accra is not nothing.
🚇 Ridge; a walk from the Conference Centre.
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Show on mapBakeshop Classics · Labadi
A Labadi bakery with meat pies, rock buns and bofrot: the Ghanaian snack, in its shop-window version.
Tip: A must-stop on the way to the beach: buy here and skip the prices inside Labadi.
🚇 Labadi Road; trotro towards La or Teshie.
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Show on mapMaya Cova · Cantonments
A garden cafe in Cantonments, sitting halfway between the Du Bois Centre and the La coast.
Tip: In the dry season the garden is the best place around for an outdoor lunch.
🚇 Cantonments; Bolt from Osu, eight minutes.
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Show on mapJenny’s · Shiashie
An East Legon ice-cream shop with local flavours: coconut, mango, tamarind and sobolo sorbet.
Tip: Sobolo is the Ghanaian hibiscus infusion: here you try it frozen, which is how it goes down best.
🚇 Shiashie, south of East Legon; Bolt from Accra Mall.
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Show on mapD Cafe · Airport Residential
A Volta Road cafe with cakes, sandwiches and the air conditioning that saves a 33-degree noon.
Tip: Between noon and 3pm the heat is serious: a stop like this is part of the plan, not a luxury.
🚇 Volta Road, Airport Residential; Bolt from Marina Mall.
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Show on mapDough Man Foods Xcafe · East Legon
Doughnuts, burgers and coffee on La Bawaleshie Road: the Legon students' after-class stop.
Tip: Open late and delivers: handy if you are staying on the northern side of town.
🚇 La Bawaleshie Road, East Legon; trotro from Legon.
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Show on mapPalm Moments · Asylum Down
A small Asylum Down cafe with fresh-pressed juices, cold sobolo and coconut water served in the nut.
Tip: Sobolo is hibiscus, ginger and sometimes pineapple: ask for it with no added sugar if you can.
🚇 Asylum Down; trotro from Circle, five minutes.
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Show on mapBreakfast to Breakfast · Osu
All-day breakfast on Oxford Street: eggs, toast, milky tea and fresh-pressed pineapple juice.
Tip: A good call at 7am, when almost nothing in Osu has opened yet.
🚇 Oxford Street, Osu; steps from Danquah Circle.
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Show on mapTsotso's Kenkey Boutique · Agbogba
A stand selling kenkey wrapped in maize husk, with dried fish and pepper ground on the spot.
Tip: Sold by the ball: two make a meal. Bring small cash.
🚇 Agbogba, northern Accra; trotro from Haatso.
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Show on mapCrafts workshop and market · Ministries
The part of the Arts Centre where they carve, weave and hammer: you buy while watching it made.
Tip: Pay cash in cedis or by MoMo; almost nobody here takes cards.
🚇 Inside the Arts Centre grounds, off High Street.
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Show on mapMakola Market · Accra Central
Accra's mother market, run by the market queens: cloth, spices, beads and absolutely everything else.
Tip: Wear your backpack on your front and bring small notes. Ask the price before touching the goods.
🚇 Accra Central; trotro to Rawlings Park or Tudu, then walk.
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Show on mapKantamanto Market · Accra Central
West Africa's largest second-hand clothing market: 30,000 people opening bales from the global North.
Tip: A fire tore through much of it in January 2025 and rebuilding continues: go with a guide, keep the camera down, and buy something.
🚇 Accra Central, by the old railway yard; walkable from Makola.
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Show on mapSalaga Market · James Town
Jamestown's fish and fresh produce market: whatever the painted canoes land ends up right here.
Tip: Early morning is best. The name comes from the slave trade: ask someone to tell you the history.
🚇 Jamestown, steps off High Street.
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Show on mapKaneshie Market Complex · Kaneshie
Three covered market floors: spices, smoked fish, palm oil and cloth sold by the wholesale bale.
Tip: First floor: spices and dried fish. The best place to buy jarred shito to take home.
🚇 Kaneshie; trotro from Circle or Obetsebi-Lamptey Circle.
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Show on mapNima Market · Nima
The Muslim quarter's market: dates, halal meat, Sahelian spices and cloth from northern Ghana.
Tip: This is where you find dawadawa and suya powder: the two spices missing from every suitcase.
🚇 Nima; trotro from Kanda Highway.
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Show on mapMallam Atta Market · Kokomlemle
The fruit and veg market where Accra's cooks shop: mango, yam, okra and crab still very much alive.
Tip: Go before 10am with your own bag: single-use plastic is increasingly frowned on.
🚇 Kokomlemle; trotro from Circle.
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Show on mapMadina Market · Madina
Northern Accra's biggest market: food, electronics, clothing and the ordered chaos of Zongo Junction.
Tip: Tuesdays and Saturdays are the big days: more stock, more people, more care with your pockets.
🚇 Madina; trotro from Legon or 37.
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Show on mapAchimota Market · Achimota
A market beside the Achimota trotro terminal: fruit, bread, cloth and the north's transport hub.
Tip: If you plan to use trotros, learn the hand sign for your destination: that is how it is done here.
🚇 Achimota; trotro terminal with departures across northern Accra.
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Show on mapLa Main Market · La (Labadi)
The Ga town of La's market, steps from the beach: fish, coconuts and the bread you take to the sand.
Tip: The ideal stop before Labadi: water and food at neighbourhood prices, not beach prices.
🚇 La; trotro towards Teshie, get off at La Main.
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Show on mapAgbogbloshie Onion Market · Agbogbloshie
Mountains of onion, yam and tomato trucked from the north and the Sahel: the wholesaler that feeds Accra.
Tip: The famous e-waste yard was demolished in 2021: what is here today is a food market.
🚇 Agbogbloshie, by the Korle lagoon; trotro from Circle.
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Show on mapAccra Mall · Tetteh Quarshie
Ghana's first big mall: supermarket, cinema, food court and air conditioning that actually works.
Tip: Here you change money, draw cedis and top up MoMo: the easiest logistics stop in the city.
🚇 Tetteh Quarshie Interchange; trotro from 37 or Circle.
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Show on mapMarina Mall · Airport City
A small, convenient mall by the airport: the last coffee and the last purchase before you fly.
Tip: If you have time before the flight, beat duty free: there is real Ghanaian design here.
🚇 Airport City; minutes from the terminal, a five-minute taxi.
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Show on mapLegon City Mall · East Legon
A northern mall with cinema, supermarket and food court: it is East Legon's meeting point.
Tip: The cinema shows Nollywood and Ghanaian releases: a different, cheap night out.
🚇 East Legon; trotro from Madina or Legon.
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Show on mapA&C Mall · East Legon
An East Legon centre with Ghanaian design shops, a pharmacy, a gym and a cafe on the terrace.
Tip: The handiest starting point for doing East Legon's boutiques on foot.
🚇 East Legon; trotro north from Accra Mall.
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Show on mapOxford Street Mall · Osu
An Oxford Street arcade with supermarket, pharmacy and bureaux de change: Osu's logistics.
Tip: The bureaux here beat the airport rate; compare two before you change.
🚇 Oxford Street, Osu; steps from Danquah Circle.
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Show on mapWoodin · Oxford Street, Osu
The Ghanaian wax-print brand with new designs each season: bought by length and taken to a tailor.
Tip: Ghana has no single authenticity seal: check the reverse: on good cloth the colour is as strong on both sides.
🚇 Oxford Street, Osu; steps from Danquah Circle.
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Show on mapAkosombo Textile · Accra Central
One of the three Ghanaian wax mills still standing, with GTP and Printex: cloth actually made in Ghana.
Tip: Ask to see the mill stamp printed on the selvedge: the practical way to tell it from imported wax.
🚇 Accra Central, near Kantamanto; walkable from Makola.
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Show on mapOriginal Bonwire Kente · Mallam
Hand-woven kente brought from the Ashanti village of Bonwire, in patterns that carry names and meanings.
Tip: Ghanaian kente has had geographical-indication protection since 2025: ask for the pattern by name.
🚇 Mallam, west Accra; trotro from Kaneshie.
Featured in: OSM · artesanía kente de Bonwire
Show on mapKente Delali · Cantonments
A kente workshop and shop in Cantonments: woven strips, stoles and pieces made to measure.
Tip: A woven kente stole has weight you can feel; if it is light and flawless, it is printed industrially.
🚇 Cantonments; Bolt from Osu, eight minutes.
Featured in: OSM · artesanía kente de Accra
Show on mapGlobal Mamas · Osu
Fair trade with batik hand-dyed by women's cooperatives: clothing, shea butter and scented soap.
Tip: Their unrefined shea butter is the gift that weighs nothing and lasts forever.
🚇 Osu, steps off Oxford Street.
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Show on mapTrashy Bags · Osu
Bags stitched from recycled water sachets: Accra's most visible waste turned into an object.
Tip: Wash with soap and water and they last years: the souvenir that best tells the city's story.
🚇 Osu; a walk from Oxford Street.
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Show on mapWild Gecko · Dzorwulu
A huge West African craft yard: masks, furniture, cloth and carvings, with no aggressive haggling.
Tip: A good alternative to the Arts Centre if you hate haggling: you pay a bit more and skip the pressure.
🚇 Dzorwulu; Bolt from Accra Mall, eight minutes.
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Show on mapNallem Clothing · Burma Camp
Contemporary Ghanaian tailoring: suits and dresses blending Western cut with African cloth.
Tip: With four or five days they will make you something to measure: bring cloth bought at Makola.
🚇 Giffard Road, Burma Camp; Bolt from Osu.
Featured in: Nallem Clothing · moda ghanesa contemporánea
Show on mapAjepomaa Design Gallery · East Legon
Ghanaian fashion and design objects in an East Legon house: author pieces, not mass souvenirs.
Tip: Short hours and sometimes by appointment: message them on Instagram first.
🚇 Sowah Close, East Legon; Bolt from A&C Mall.
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Show on mapAfua Manu · East Legon
A Ghanaian designer boutique in East Legon: its own prints, loose cuts and very small collections.
Tip: Collections are small and rotate fast: what you see today may be gone in two weeks.
🚇 East Legon; steps from A&C Mall.
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Show on mapZuore Beads Artistry · Angola (New Town)
Recycled glass beads in the Krobo tradition: necklaces, bracelets and the pieces worn at ceremonies.
Tip: The beads are made by melting ground bottles: ask to see the clay mould.
🚇 Angola, New Town; trotro from Nima or Kanda.
Featured in: OSM · artesanía de cuentas de vidrio krobo
Show on mapSankofa · Liberation Road, Airport Residential
A gift shop full of carved and printed adinkra symbols: sankofa, gye nyame and all the rest.
Tip: Every adinkra carries a proverb: ask them to tell you the one behind the symbol you buy.
🚇 Liberation Road, Airport Residential; Bolt from Osu.
Featured in: OSM · guías de artesanía de Accra
Show on mapKoala Supermarket · Burma Camp
The supermarket half of expat Accra shops at: also the best place to buy shito and chocolate.
Tip: Ghanaian single-origin chocolate is the cheap souvenir nobody expects: buy several bars.
🚇 Burma Camp, east of Labone; Bolt from Osu, ten minutes.
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Show on mapNight Market · Legon
The university's night market: fried rice, khebab and the place where the whole campus eats dinner.
Tip: Dinner runs 7 to 11pm and is dirt cheap. Bring small cash: MoMo rules here.
🚇 Inside the Legon campus; a walk from the halls of residence.
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Show on mapBanana Home · Shiashie
Homeware in fibre, rattan and Ghanaian wood: baskets, lamps and pieces that fit in a suitcase.
Tip: Bolga baskets from the north squash flat and spring back: they travel better than they look.
🚇 Shiashie, south of East Legon; Bolt from Accra Mall.
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