Hardware Lane is a wide laneway in the Melbourne central business district, Australia.

Hardware lane is a thriving example of Melbourne's famous laneway culture, with a distinctly European feeling and unique red brick paving.

[2][3] The lane is closed to traffic between 11am-11pm and occasionally features nighttime live jazz performances.

[2] The lane is on land formerly occupied by Kirk's Horse Bazaar, a horse and livery trading centre built in 1840 by James Bowie Kirk,[1] and the first home of Melbourne's Tattersall's Club,[4] where wagers with the big bookmakers were settled.

The Shamrock Hotel was situated at the opposite end of the lane, on the intersection with Lonsdale Street.