Berlin's Hauptbahnhof or Main Train Station

13-Jul-2012 • Berlin Germany

At Berlin's Hauptbahnhof

Of all the train stations Marc and I got to travel to in Europe this summer, Berlin's Hauptbanhof was without a doubt the biggest and most modern.  Only Kyoto in Japan has a train station as nice and as modern.  In fact, Berlin's main train station also looked like a mall with supermarkets, department stores, bakeries, patisseries, restaurants, banks, and more.

I believe this was the topmost level of the station

The metro train.  This is just one of the many that travel through the main train station going to different parts of the city.

Escalators leading up and down to different levels of the train station

A view of the level where trains coming in from other countries traveled through.  We took our train for Prague at this bottom level and we saw trains arrive from Budapest and Moscow here that morning we departed Berlin for the Czech Republic.

Here is a view of the mall like aspect of the train station.  I really liked it.  Marc and I bought a lot of apple struddels, bratwursts, apple cider, and countless bread and pastries here.  Buying breakfast food in Berlin was one of my favorite activities during our vacation.  I loved the wide variety of bread and cakes they have in Germany.  One funny discovery we made was how widely the prices of bottled water varied in the train station.  Instead of buying juices and bottled water from the bakeries in the train station, we went to a mini supermarket in one of the lower levels for a fraction of the price.  "Why pay 4 euros for the same bottled water I could buy for 80 cents in their supermarket two floors below?" I thought.

The following two images are those of the same train, the Berlin Warsaw Express.  We saw it while we were waiting for our train to Szczerin, Poland one morning.

Berlin's Main Hauptbahnhof is a modern work of art.