Jabal Amman (Rainbow Street)

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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What’s around

Real places inside Jabal Amman— you’d walk to all of these.

• Sufra

  regional

• ميجانا

  regional

• Buffalo Wings & Rings

  american

• Zorba

• Waffle House

  breakfast

• دنيا

• كويك ميل

  chicken

• Fatatri

• Ataba

  jordanian

• Abu Omar

  falafel

• Donuts Factory

  donut

• The Bake House

Places from OpenStreetMap. A snapshot — check current hours before you go.

Where it sits

The circle is Jabal Amman and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• Hashem Restaurant7 min walk607 m
• Knafeh at Habibah7 min walk607 m
• The downtown souks7 min walk607 m
• The Jordan Museum8 min walk627 m
• Darat al Funun8 min walk680 m
• The Citadel (Jabal al-Qal'a)10 min walk865 m
• The Roman Theatre15 min walk1.2 km
• King Abdullah I Mosque17 min walk1.4 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 4.Rainbow Street — The one street in Amman built for wandering. Touristy in the middle and much better at the edges — walk the side streets off it, where the old villas and the good coffee actually are.
• 6.Mansaf at Sufra — Mansaf is the national dish — lamb, rice, and a fermented yoghurt sauce that divides people — and you should eat it once, properly, in a garden on Rainbow Street rather than from a takeaway box.
• 8.Souk Jara — Summer Fridays only. A whole stepped street off Rainbow closed to traffic and filled with makers, second-hand books and food stalls. It's where young Amman actually goes on a Friday evening.
• 12.Wild Jordan Center — A conservation centre with the best cheap view in Amman — a wide terrace looking straight across at the Citadel. Get a coffee, sit outside, don't rush.
• 14.Al-Pasha Turkish Bath — Steam, scrub, massage, mint tea, about ninety minutes. Book ahead and check which hours are men's or women's — it's a proper hammam, not a spa.