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Bellevue is a city in the Puget Sound region of Washington state, and often considered a suburb of Seattle.

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[edit] By car

• State route 520 connects Bellevue to Seattle, via the Evergreen Point floating bridge on Lake Washington. Prone to traffic jams.

• The more modern and capacious Interstate 90 provides another route from Seattle across Lake Washington, traversing Mercer Island. It continues eastward to Spokane, and ultimately, Boston.

• Interstate 405 runs North-South right through the middle of Bellevue, leading north to Kirkland (and eventually rejoining I-5 on the way to Bellingham and ultimately the Canadian border) To the south, I-405 leads to Renton and the Southcenter shopping district before rejoining I-5 (continuing southbound to Portland, OR, and ultimately the Mexican border).

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• Sound Transit [1] Express line 550 [2] runs frequently between Downtown Seattle and Downtown Bellevue.
• Sound Transit Express line 560 [3] runs every half hour between SeaTac Airport and Downtown Bellevue.

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The Puget Sound (which includes Bellevue) has a decent bus transportation network if you're staying in the city.

• Metro [4] offers both local bus service (good for short distances) and express bus service (good for longer distances).
• Sound Transit [5] offers express bus service.

The two systems accept transfers from each other, treating foreign transfers as credit for a one-zone trip.

For trips outside of the core city, you'll probably want a car.

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There are a few museums in Bellevue:

• Bellevue Arts Museum small art museum with fine craft and design exhibitions
• Doll Museum a large collection of dolls

Others:

• Bellevue Botanical Gardens [6] is a must see especially the Garden d'Lights in the winter

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See a movie at Lincoln Square Cinemas [7]

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Shop at Bellevue Square [8]

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• Top Gun This old favorite restaurant closed in Seattle, but is now open in the Factoria area of Bellevue, almost at the intersection of I-405 and I-90, across Lake Washington.
• Udupi Palace, 15600 NE 8th St # 9, Crossroads Mall (425) 649-0355. Udupi serves authentic thali plates, dosas, and pani puri, not available in Seattle. Their daily lunch buffet is a soul food hit with many South Indian Microsoft employees.
• Maggianos, downtown Bellevue for great pinot noir and Italian fare.

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• Tap House Bar and Grill, [9]. 160 beers on tap.
• Rock Bottom Brewery, [10]. Brews their own beers.
• Joey's, [11]. A decent restaurant and bar.

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• Courtyard Seattle - Bellevue/Downtown, 11010 NE 8th Street, ☎ +1 425 454-5888 (fax: +1 425 455-5880), [12].  edit
• Courtyard Seattle Bellevue/Redmond, 14615 NE 29th Place, ☎ +1 425 869-5300 (toll free: +1 800 321-2211, fax: +1 425 883-9122), [13].  edit
• Fairfield Inn Seattle Bellevue, 14595 NE 29th Place, ☎ +1 425 869-6548 (fax: +1 425 881-2861), [14].  edit
• Residence Inn Seattle Bellevue, 14455 NE 29th Place, ☎ +1 425 882-1222 (fax: +1 425 885-9260), [15].  edit

• Hyatt Regency Bellevue, 900 Bellevue Way NE, [16]. The 382-room hotel offers views of the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges and is a part of the Bellevue Collection, the Northwest's premier shopping destination.  edit

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