Getting there & away
Land
Bus
The central bus station (Busbahnhof) is northeast of the Hauptbahnhof, on Breslauer Platz. Eurolines has daily buses to Paris (one way/return from €37/66, eight hours) and Warsaw (from €55/76, 21 hours). Trips to Prague (from €47/85, 12 hours) are scheduled three times a week.
Car & motorcycle
Cologne is encircled by the heavily trafficked Kölner Ring, with exits to the A1, A3, A4, A57, A555 and A559 leading in all directions.
If you’d like to hitch a ride, contact Citynetz Mitfahrzentrale (194 44; www.citynetz-mitfahrzentrale.de; Kiosk EGE 1, Krefelder Strasse 21).
Train
Regional trains travel several times hourly to Bonn (€6.10, 25 minutes), Brühl (€3.10, 15 minutes), Düsseldorf (€9, 30 minutes) and Aachen (€12.50, one hour). Cologne is also a major main-line hub with direct ICE service to Berlin (€93, 4¼ hours), Frankfurt (€55, 1¼ hours) and Munich (€112, 4½ hours).
Air
Cologne Bonn Airport (02203-404 001; www.airport-cgn.de) has direct flights to 130 cities, including New York City on Continental. Discount carriers flying here include Germanwings, Deutsche BA, Hapag-Lloyd Express and easyJet. There’s a tourist office (9am-8pm) on the arrival level of terminal two.
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