Stockholm Key Prepare Station

Main entrance from the street Vasagatan.

Chances are, when visiting Stockholm, that at closed to hollo for during your trip y'all volition take in the Stockholm Central Station or at to the lowest degree ane of the following complexes... either the City Terminal bus station or the T-Centralen underground station. All three, located inward the downtown area, are connected via escalators/stairs too together are the hub for all transportation inside the greater Stockholm part too beyond. Because of this, too the fact that they simply completed a massive, multiple-year long renovation of the develop station, I idea that it deserved a weblog article!

Main hall - street level.

At the Central Train Station y'all take away maintain regular trains connecting Stockholm amongst the balance of Sweden every bit good every bit amongst Oslo too Copenhagen (on to the continent). The high speed trains, X2000 & X3000, connecting the urban marrow amongst Göteborg (3 hours) too Malmö (4½ hours) are specially popular. The trains, for the around part, are run past times the companionship SJ (Statens Järnvägar). Tickets tin go either purchased online or at the SJ ticket part at the station. This station is every bit good where the Arlanda Express departs to (and arrives from) Arlanda airport. H5N1 fleck to a greater extent than expensive than jitney or commuter train, this is the quickest means to larn to the airport... simply xx minutes, amongst trains departing every fifteen minutes.

Street level, looking downwardly on the entrance to the underground station T-Centralen.

The Central Station is every bit good the hub for the Stockholm commuter develop network (pendeltåg). These trains connect the urban marrow amongst the suburbs too every bit far every bit the cities of Södertalje too Uppsala every bit good every bit the port of Nynäshamn. One recent business has extended to the Arlanda airport, which adds a new, less expensive means to larn to the airdrome (click here for to a greater extent than info). The commuter trains are run past times a unlike companionship than the regular trains... SL (Storstockholms Lokaltrafik), which every bit good runs the city's busses, subways too street cars. An SL Travel Card gives y'all access to all these modes of transportation every bit good every bit some ferries.

Well marked signs inward Swedish & English...

Underneath the develop station is the principal underground station: T-Centralen. This is the alone station where all 3 underground lines (red, light-green too blue) cross. You tin accomplish the Rival Hotel on the scarlet line... simply 3 stations away! The ii stations are connected past times escalators too stairs too tin go quite hectic during rush hour.

Escalator leading upwards to the principal jitney station (City Terminalen)

Finally, the principal jitney station (City Terminalen) is located correct following door to the develop station... connected past times an escalator (going upwards this time). This station isn't for the local busses, but for the to a greater extent than long distant busses. Here y'all tin accept busses throughout Sweden (popular amongst busses to the ski resorts of Åre too Sälen), but fifty-fifty to the unlike Stockholm airports (Arlanda, Bromma, Västerås too Skavsta). These airdrome busses, called flygbussarna, are quite cheap and, inward the illustration of the smaller airports, the alone existent means to larn to the airdrome amongst the exception of driving.

The alone Starbucks inward primal Stockholm and... pricey!

The train station was originally built inward 1871 too has simply undergone an extensive renovation. Part of the renovation function was the improver of a slew of novel shops, cafés too fast nutrient restaurants... including a florist, pharmacy, pilus dresser, commutation office, grocery store, volume store, Starbucks too much more. There is every bit good a tourist data desk, SJ & SL ticket offices too luggage lockers (in illustration y'all take away maintain an eve flying too hollo for to store your luggage piece exploring the city). Another nifty characteristic is that the station has free WiFi! Just search for "All Station Guests". So, every bit y'all tin see, when travelling to, from or through Stockholm... y'all will, at closed to point, take in Stockholm Central Station.

Storage lockers for luggage!