The Garden at 120
A free open-air roof garden high over the City, no booking and no ticket, with a fountain, a wisteria walk and the Walkie Talkie and Gherkin close enough to touch.
The lowdown
Everyone queues for the Sky Garden, but two minutes away sits a free rooftop almost nobody outside the City knows about. The Garden at 120 is an open-air public garden on the roof of the Fen Court building on Fenchurch Street, and unlike its famous neighbour you do not need to book a thing. You just walk in and take the lift up.
At the top is a proper garden, a long wisteria-covered pergola, a still water channel and benches, laid out fifteen floors up with the towers of the City rising on every side. The Walkie Talkie, the Gherkin and the Cheesegrater are close enough to read the windows, and on a clear day you can see the Shard and out east to Canary Wharf.
It is free, it is open daily and it almost never has a queue, which makes it one of the best value high views in London. Bring a coffee, grab a bench and watch the City go about its business below you.
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