Places of Note and Interest
- Woden Town Centre is the major shopping and office complex in the Woden Valley. It includes a substantial indoor shopping mall called Westfield Woden. Locally the Mall is known as Woden Plaza as this was the original name of the mall when it first opened.
- Canberra Hospital, which was previously named the Woden Valley Hospital, is Canberra's primary hospital. The hospital is the biggest of the three major hospitals in Canberra, and serves the surrounding regions of New South Wales.
- Woden Bus Interchange.
- IP Australia, Australia's equivalent to the US Patent Office, is located at the Woden Town Centre.
- Woden Storm Water Drain - Legal Graffiti site. Woden is either famous or infamous for its legal Graffiti site. The walls of the drain display colourful murals for many hundreds of meters from local, interstate and overseas Graffiti artists.
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