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Are you going to visit the Missouri State in the centre of the United States? Follow our guide to discover the areas where to stay in Kansas City!

The largest city in Missouri State, Kansas City is populated by 488,943 people in 2017. Located at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas rivers, and at the border between the homonymous States, it covers an area of 826 km2. The city was nicknamed "La Ville des Fontaines".

Its urban area has more than 2 million inhabitants. Kansas City is a cultural city renowned for its jazz. The arts as a whole are not left aside. However, what strikes here is the many green spaces, where the inhabitants care for their reputation as good living. A dynamic and trendy cultural atmosphere, many museums, a vibrant musical scene, many museums... To help you prepare your stay, here is a guide to the neighborhoods where to stay in Kansas City!

Downtown

Like all the cities in the United States, Kansas City has its CBD – Central Business District -, baptized Downtown. It is the economic centre and the neighbourhood where most of the social life is froged. So it is a heteroclite population. Downtown is the central point of the city, including

• the district of the railway station – Union Station -, which houses many museums, exhibitions, restaurants and other merchant galleries;
• Crown Center. Visit the Liberty Memorial, inaugurated in 1925 by the Maréchal Foch and General Pershing to commemorate the First World War. The First World War National Museum is located there;
• The Penn Valley Park offers an ideal setting to stroll through the beautiful days (when the weather doesn't make its own).
• Do you like music? Don't miss the American Jazz Museum. The great names of jazz left their mark here, like Charlie Parker or Elle Fitzgerald. The area also offers a festive nightlife that is not without having some airs of New Orleans.

Attention, as often in American cities, the downtown area is a neighborhood where rents are high. Staying in Kansas City Centre is therefore rather intended for large budgets.

Power and Light District

Would you like to find an area where to sleep in Kansas City that is endiablé, vibrant, young and festive? This neighborhood should satisfy you. It is a very trendy area, combining bars and concert halls, shops and restaurants. It is a central area where to stay in Kansas City.

18th and Vine

Just next to the Power and Light District, discover this trendy area that will delight cultural outing enthusiasts. Don’t miss the Américan Jazz Museum and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Here again, it is a central location where to stay in Kansas City: you are not far from the Downtown.

Country Club Plaza

In the south of the city centre, a neighbourhood built from nothing in 1923, in Andalusian and Moroccan styles. It is a pleasant area where you can stay in Kansas City, where you can stroll quietly through the shops – if you have shopping to do... - and also offer a marathon of bars and restaurants, especially between Bush Creek and 47th Avenue.

Westport

Westport is a nice area to stay in Kansas City if you like trendy corners.

The neighborhood is renowned for its restaurants, and for being the starting point of the roads leading to the far west lands. In the southeast of Wesport, don’t miss the city’s iconic museum: the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum. It brings together a huge amount of collections, to such a point that some consider it one of the largest museums in the United States. It houses more than 33,500 pieces and collections, including paintings of European paintings (Caravage, Rembrandt, Rubens, Renoir, Caillebotte, Degas, Monnet, Van Gogh), Asian and American, photographs. The museum also exhibits collections of art deco, Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiques, modern and contemporary sculpture, pre-Columbian, African, Oceanian and American art. Just that! Not far away, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art welcomes modern art exhibitions. It's free.