Go behind the scenes of Canada's most famous arena — dressing rooms, media areas, the ice surface, penalty boxes, and the championship gallery. For sports fans, it's the equivalent of the Hockey Hall of Fame with actual game context.
Neighbourhood: Entertainment District · Address: 40 Bay St, Toronto, ON · Hours: Mon–Fri 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Sat–Sun: Closed · Phone: (416) 815-5500
Why Visit
See the guts of Scotiabank Arena—from the Leafs and Raptors’ locker rooms to the view journalists get in the press box. It’s a chance to walk in the footsteps of athletes, not just watch from the stands.
What Makes It Unique
Unlike self-guided stops like the Hockey Hall of Fame, this tour actually lets you into backstage areas and the real, working parts of the arena. You’ll stand on the ice (or court), check out where coaches yell at refs, and see memorabilia from actual championship games. No other Toronto sports venue lets you get this insider access.
The Scotiabank Arena Behind the Scenes Tour is a genuinely excellent way to access spaces that are normally invisible to regular ticket-holders — the private corridors, locker rooms, penalty boxes, media interview areas, and ice-surface level vantage points of Canada's most famous arena. For anyone who has watched Maple Leafs or Raptors games from the stands, the tour provides a fundamentally different perspective on a building whose everyday operational reality is usually completely hidden.
Scotiabank Arena has hosted over 20 Maple Leafs Stanley Cup Finals, countless memorable concerts, NBA playoff runs, and the full spectrum of major North American sports and entertainment events since it opened in 1999 as Air Canada Centre. The tour uses this history — combined with direct access to the physical spaces involved — to tell the story of the building and the franchises it houses in a way that complements rather than replaces the game experience.
The visitor dressing room gives a sense of the scale and organization of professional locker rooms — the stalls, the equipment systems, the workout areas adjacent to the ice. The ice surface level access, when available, produces an entirely different visual experience of the bowl: the sense of scale, the proximity of the boards, the height of the seats above you — professional athletes see a completely different building than fans do from the stands. The penalty box view (where you're briefly in the actual sin bin) is a favourite for hockey fans.
The tour includes the media corridor and interview areas where post-game scrums happen — spaces familiar from years of broadcast footage but genuinely unusual to access physically. The historical exhibits woven through the tour cover Maple Leafs and Raptors history with appropriate depth, including championship banners and retired numbers that are usually too distant in the rafters to read clearly from seats.