Amsterdam
Worth seeing in and around Amsterdam
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 06Anne Frank House
Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank
400 m · Wikipedia - 07
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- 09canals of Amsterdam
Grachten dug in the 17th century during the Dutch Golden Age; UNESCO World Heritage Site
1 km · Wikipedia - 10
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Amsterdam
- Airports
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 11 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 56 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 108 km
- Stations
- Amsterdam Central station, 900 m
- Rotterdam → Amsterdam57 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · €7–10
- Eindhoven → Amsterdam111 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · €12–17
- Groningen → Amsterdam147 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · €18–26
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Amsterdam
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Amsterdam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe nearest ferry port is IJmuiden, where ferries from Newcastle upon Tyne dock.
- Get inDFDS Seaways offers daily overnight ferry services from Newcastle upon Tyne (more specifically, North Shields) in the United Kingdom.
- Get inOther ferry services dock at Rotterdam Europoort (ferry from Hull) and Hook of Holland (ferry from Harwich).
- Get inFor the Stena Line ferry to Harwich: from Rotterdam Centraal, change for Rotterdam Metro Line B direct to Hoek Van Holland Station where you will be able to walk onto the Ferry.
- Get aroundThere are several ferry services across the IJ river, between the city centre and Noord, the most frequent runs every 7 minutes.
From Wikivoyage: Amsterdam, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Amsterdam – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Amsterdam
Amsterdam is 35 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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