City & Bahnhofstrasse

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is City & Bahnhofstrasse and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• Lindenhof viewpoint3 min walk214 m
• The Niederdorf lanes5 min walk410 m
• Zürcher Geschnetzeltes6 min walk461 m
• Fraumünster & the Chagall windows6 min walk530 m
• Grossmünster7 min walk600 m
• Kunsthaus Zürich10 min walk836 m
• Im Viadukt & Zürich-West20 min walk1.7 km
• Swim in the lake20 min walk1.7 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 2.A Lake Zürich cruise — Step onto a boat at Bürkliplatz and glide out onto the lake, the city falling behind and the Alps rising ahead — a short round-trip or a long one to a lakeside village. The classic Zürich outing, and the best way to feel the setting.
• 3.Bahnhofstrasse — One of the world's most exclusive shopping streets, running arrow-straight from the station to the lake past the watchmakers, chocolatiers and banks (the gold is stored beneath your feet). Window-shop the length of it, tram bells ringing, for the full moneyed-Zürich effect.
• 8.Swiss National Museum — The whole story of Switzerland under one fairy-tale turreted roof beside the station — from Celtic gold and medieval altarpieces to how a country of mountains and cantons came to be. Grand, engaging and the best rainy-day couple of hours in the city.
• 11.Swiss chocolate & Luxemburgerli — This is the world capital of chocolate, and Zürich does it with reverence — a hot chocolate and a box of Sprüngli's featherlight Luxemburgerli macarons at the grand old Paradeplatz café is the sweetest ritual in town. Save room; it's worth every franc.