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Aardam

Aardam is a former hamlet in the Dutch province of South Holland and is now incorporated into the town Ter Aar, part of the municipality Nieuwkoop.

Aardam
Aardam · Michielverbeek
The place

Aardam is a former hamlet in the Dutch province of South Holland and is now incorporated into the town Ter Aar, part of the municipality Nieuwkoop.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Aardam

2 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.

  1. 01
    Alphen aan den Rijn shopping mall shooting

    On 9 April 2011, six people were killed by a gunman who entered the Ridderhof mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, a town approximately 33 kilometres south-west of Amsterdam. Using a rifle, 24-year-old Tristan van der Vlis shot several people and then killed himself, reportedly with a different firearm.

    1.8 km · shooting in an Alphen aan den Rijn shopping mall · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Vogelpark Avifauna

    Vogelpark Avifauna is a large bird park in Alphen aan den Rijn, in the western Netherlands. It was the first dedicated bird park in the world.

    3.7 km · bird park in the Netherlands · Wikipedia

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.

Go there

Getting to Aardam

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 18 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 28 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 91 km
Stations
Alphen aan den Rijn railway station, 4 km
  • Eindhoven → Aardam
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · €12–17
  • Maastricht → Aardam
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · €21–30
  • Groningen → Aardam
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · €21–29
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Aardam

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 Aardam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are no ferry or waterbus services to Gouda, but when you own a boat, there are facilities to stay in Gouda.

From Wikivoyage: Gouda, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    126 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    447 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    655 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    677 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    717 km

If you know how people move in Aardam – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Aardam

Aardam is 28 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.