Buiksloot
Buiksloot is a former village in the Dutch province of North Holland.
Buiksloot is a former village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is now a neighbourhood of Amsterdam-Noord. Buiksloot was a separate municipality from 1811 until 1921, when it was merged with Amsterdam.
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Worth seeing in and around Buiksloot
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.
- 01University of Amsterdam
The University of Amsterdam is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlands still in operation.
4 km · public university in Amsterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Anne Frank House
The Anne Frank House is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on the Prinsengracht, close to the Westerkerk, in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
3.5 km · museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank · Wikipedia - 03Dam Square
Dam Square, also known as the Dam, is a town square in Amsterdam, the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands. Its notable buildings and frequent events make it one of the best-known and most important locations in the city and the country.
3.4 km · central square in Amsterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 04Natura Artis Magistra
Natura Artis Magistra, commonly known just as Artis, is a zoo and botanical garden in the centre of Amsterdam. It is the oldest zoo in the Netherlands and fifth oldest zoo in the world that is still operating.
3.8 km · zoo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 05Westerkerk
The Westerkerk k]; English: Western Church) is a Reformed church within Dutch Protestant Calvinism in central Amsterdam, Netherlands. It lies in the most western part of the Grachtengordel neighborhood, next to the Jordaan, between the Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht.
3.6 km · church in Amsterdam · Wikipedia - 06Rembrandt House Museum
The Rembrandt House Museum is a museum located in a former house in the Jodenbreestraat, in the center of Amsterdam. Between 1639 and 1658, the house was occupied by the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn, who also had his studio and art dealership there.
3.6 km · historic house and art museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 07Nieuwe Kerk
The Nieuwe Kerk k], lit. 'New Church') is a 15th-century church in Amsterdam located on Dam Square, next to the Royal Palace. Originally a Catholic church, it became a Dutch Reformed church in 1578.
3.4 km · church in Amsterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 08NEMO Science Center
NEMO Science Museum is a science centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is located in the Oosterdokseiland neighbourhood in the Amsterdam-Centrum borough, situated between the Oosterdokseiland and the Kattenburg.
2.9 km · museum and science center in Amsterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 09Homomonument
The Homomonument is a memorial in the centre of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. It commemorates all LGBTQ people who have been persecuted because of their sexual orientation.
3.6 km · memorial in Amsterdam · Wikipedia - 10International Institute of Social History
The International Institute of Social History is one of the largest archives of labor and social history in the world. Located in Amsterdam, its one million volumes and 5,445 archival collections include the papers of major figures and institutions in radical leftist thought.
3.8 km · historical research institute in Amsterdam · Wikipedia
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Getting to Buiksloot
- Airports
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 15 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 59 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 110 km
- Stations
- Amsterdam Central station, 2.6 km · Noord metro station, 1.1 km · Metrostation Rokin, 3.6 km
- Rotterdam → Buiksloot61 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · €8–12
- Eindhoven → Buiksloot112 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · €13–18
- Groningen → Buiksloot143 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · €18–26
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Buiksloot
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 Buiksloot. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inand the Noord]] The north lies fairly isolated from the rest of Amsterdam, but there is a free GVB ferry from Centraal Station in the Binnenstad.
- Get inInstead of just being a way to get in, the ferry ride is an attraction in itself.
From Wikivoyage: Amsterdam/Noord, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Buiksloot
Buiksloot is 3 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Landsmeermunicipality in the Netherlands3.3 km
- De Wallenlargest and best known red-light district in Amsterdam3.2 km
- Anne Frank Treehorse-chestnut tree in the city center of Amsterdam that was featured in Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, Netherlands3.5 km
- Jordaanneighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands3.4 km
- Amsterdam-Centrumborough of Amsterdam, Netherlands3.6 km
- Plantageneighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands3.8 km