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Amsterdam Nieuw-West

Amsterdam Nieuw-West is a borough comprising the westernmost neighbourhoods of the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Amsterdam Nieuw-West
Amsterdam Nieuw-West · Janwillemvanaalst (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Amsterdam Nieuw-West is a borough comprising the westernmost neighbourhoods of the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was created in 2010 after a merger of the former boroughs Osdorp, Geuzenveld-Slotermeer and Slotervaart. In 2017, the borough had almost 150,000 inhabitants.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Amsterdam Nieuw-West

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 7 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 52 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 108 km
  • Rotterdam → Amsterdam Nieuw-West
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · €7–10
  • Eindhoven → Amsterdam Nieuw-West
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · €13–18
  • Groningen → Amsterdam Nieuw-West
    152 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · €19–26
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No local-transport research exists yet for Amsterdam Nieuw-West

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    102 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    463 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    655 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    666 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    736 km

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Amsterdam Nieuw-West is 5 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.