Lower Queen Anne, (also known as
Uptown due to its large residential population) is a
neighborhood in
Seattle, Washington, at the base of
Queen Anne Hill. While its boundaries are not precise, the
toponym usually refers to the shopping, office, and residential districts to the north and west of
Seattle Center. The neighborhood is connected to Upper Queen Anne—the shopping district at the top of the hill—by an extremely steep section of Queen Anne Avenue N. known as the
Counterbalance, in memory of the
cable cars that once ran up and down it.