Arlington station (MBTA)
Arlington station is an underground light rail station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Green Line located at the southwest corner of the Boston Public Garden at the corner of Arlington and Boylston Streets at the east end of the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
Arlington station is an underground light rail station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Green Line located at the southwest corner of the Boston Public Garden at the corner of Arlington and Boylston Streets at the east end of the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Arlington station was not included in the original construction of the Boylston Street subway, which opened in 1914. Its construction was delayed by World War I, and the station ultimately opened in 1921.
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Worth seeing in and around Arlington station (MBTA)
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.
- 01Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1861 to advance "useful knowledge", the university has played a significant role in the development of many areas of technology and science.
1.9 km · private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, founded 1861 · Wikipedia - 02Boston University
Boston University is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont.
2.4 km · private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 03Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area.
2.3 km · art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 04TD Garden
TD Garden is a multi-purpose arena in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located directly above the MBTA's North Station, and it replaced the original Boston Garden upon opening in 1995.
1.8 km · multi-purpose arena in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 05Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world.
1.4 km · independent college of contemporary music in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 06Northeastern University
Northeastern University is a private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association in 1898 as an all-male institute before being incorporated as Northeastern College in 1916, gaining university status in 1922.
1.9 km · private university in Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Wikipedia - 07Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts.
2.8 km · art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 08Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1848. The Boston Public Library is also Massachusetts' Library for the Commonwealth, meaning all adult residents of the state are entitled to borrowing and research privileges, and the library receives state funding.
1.4 km · library system in Boston, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 09John Hancock Tower
The John Hancock Tower, colloquially known as the Hancock, is a 60-story, 790-foot skyscraper in the Back Bay neighborhood of downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The pinnacle height is 852 feet.
400 m · skyscraper in Boston, United States · Wikipedia - 10Museum of Bad Art
The Museum of Bad Art is a privately owned museum whose stated aim is "to celebrate the labor of artists whose work would be displayed and appreciated in no other forum". It was originally in Dedham, Massachusetts, and is currently in Boston, Massachusetts.
3.4 km · museum with branches in Massachusetts, United States and Quebec · Wikipedia
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Getting to Arlington station (MBTA)
- Airports
- Boston Logan (BOS), 5 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 76 km · Bradley (BDL), 141 km
- Stations
- South Station, 1.3 km
- Providence/Warwick → Arlington station (MBTA)Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Portland → Arlington station (MBTA)Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Hartford → Arlington station (MBTA)Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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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 Arlington station (MBTA). What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inLong Wharf is the most popular; offering MBTA connections to the Charlestown Navy Yard, Logan Airport, Hingham and Hull, as well as a seasonal ferry to Salem.
- Get inBoston Harbor Cruises offers other seasonal ferries, decamping to the Boston Harbor Islands, or heading out to Provincetown.
- Get inThere is another ferry from here to Hingham, and a seasonal one to Winthrop.
- Get inWater taxis are plentiful all along the waterfront, servicing 28 different points between downtown, South Boston, East Boston, and Charlestown.
- Go nextHead down to the wharf and take a ferry out to the Boston Harbor Islands.
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