A Shoreditch street art walk, from Old Street to Hanbury Street

The best Shoreditch street art walk starts at Old Street station and ends under the crane on Hanbury Street, off Brick Lane. It takes about two hours at a steady pace, according to the 2026 Street Artwork guide, and it works on any day of the week. Go early: by lunchtime the best yards are full of photographers, and at weekends market stalls cover half the walls on Sclater Street. This weekend, Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November, the market is on, so do the Brick Lane end on Saturday morning and save the quiet streets for a weekday.

One rule before you set off. Shoreditch walls change constantly, and a mural you saw on someone’s feed last month may be under a fresh coat of paint today. This route is built around the walls that are always painted and the handful of pieces that have survived for years. What is on them this week is the surprise.

New Inn Yard and King John Court, EC2A

Walk south from Old Street down Great Eastern Street and turn into New Inn Yard. London x London’s September 2026 route rates it a lucky dip, best before 9am, with work by Mr Cenz among the regulars. Round the corner, the building on King John Court has carried pieces by Busk, Hunto, Mister Thoms, Tizer and others, many from a series on connectivity, and it changes less often than Brick Lane.

The Village Underground wall, Holywell Lane

Village Underground at 54 Holywell Lane is the fixed point of any Shoreditch walk: a Victorian warehouse with old Jubilee line carriages on the roof, open as a venue since 2006, says its own site. The wall facing the street is the biggest set-piece wall in the area, repainted on rotation. Artists working with Street Art London have painted it over the years, including Ben Eine, Fanakapan and Amara Por Dios, and Zabou once covered it with a Clockwork Orange tribute. Whatever is up now, it will be large.

Great Eastern Street and Rivington Street

Back on Great Eastern Street, the Great Eastern Art Wall at the Shoreditch High Street end is curated by Global Street Art and rotates on a schedule, which makes it the most dependable stop on the route. Then cut up to Rivington Street. Under the railway bridge are Ben Eine’s SCARY letters, and further along there are faces by Thierry Noir and a rain-themed mural by Dan Kitchener, as Where Goes Rose recorded in 2024. The two oldest things on this walk are in the courtyard of what was Cargo: Banksy’s Guard Dog, from 2003, and His Master’s Voice, both behind perspex. The site is now a private event space, so you may only get a look through the gate.

Braithwaite Street, Redchurch Street and Whitby Street

Head east to Braithwaite Street, beside Shoreditch High Street Overground station, where David Speed’s neon-lit portraits are worth coming back for after dark. Redchurch Street is better on its side streets than on the main drag. On Whitby Street, Jimmy C’s Lady of Whitby was the landmark for years; he refreshed it in 2018, but it was defaced in 2025. Two former regulars have gone: buildings on Ebor Street and Chance Street came down in 2025 and both are now site hoarding. The hoarding still gets painted, but the big Ben Eine on Ebor Street is no longer there.

Sclater Street, Bacon Street and Grimsby Street, E1 and E2

Cross Bethnal Green Road into Sclater Street, where the old weavers’ houses are covered in paste-ups and a giant monkey head by Mighty Mo faces Brick Lane. Bacon Street, the cut-through beside it, is known for portraits of Charlie Burns, the “king of Bacon Street”, painted on a house front by different artists over the years, according to Inspiring City. At the top of Brick Lane, follow the railway down cobbled Grimsby Street: it has one of the best paste-up walls in the area, and Stik’s two shouting figures have been there for years.

Brick Lane, Pedley Street and Hanbury Street

The stretch of Brick Lane around the railway bridge has the densest art on the route. Banksy’s three monkeys appeared on that bridge in August 2024 and were jet-washed off on TfL’s orders four months later, which tells you how long anything lasts here. Pedley Street runs east under the bridge to Allen Gardens, where the walls work as a hall of fame and new pieces turn up almost weekly. Finish on Hanbury Street with ROA’s crane, painted in 2010 and still up: a bird revered in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh, where many Brick Lane families have roots. For the full Brick Lane detail, see our Brick Lane street art guide.

Before you go

• Start: Old Street (Northern line) or Shoreditch High Street (Overground).
• Finish: Hanbury Street, five minutes from Old Spitalfields Market and Liverpool Street.
• Time: about two hours on foot.
• Best light: weekday mornings; Braithwaite Street after dark.
• Respect the walls: many are on private property and people live above them.