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Buikslotermeer

Buikslotermeer is a neighborhood and a polder of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Buikslotermeer
Buikslotermeer · Rob Mieremet / Anefo
The place

Buikslotermeer is a neighborhood and a polder of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Buikslotermeer is a reclaimed lake, now largely located within the city of Amsterdam-Noord. Nowadays, the name 'Buikslotermeer' is used to refer to the entire Buikslotermeerpolder of the similarly named neighborhood, located in the south-east of the polder.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Buikslotermeer

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.

  1. 01
    NEMO 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.

    3.8 km · museum and science center in Amsterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    International 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.

    3.5 km · historical research institute in Amsterdam · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

    Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ is the main concert hall for contemporary classical music on the IJ in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The building opened in 2005 and is located above the IJtunnel, a ten-minute walk from Amsterdam Centraal station.

    3.5 km · concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Het Scheepvaartmuseum

    The Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The museum had 419,060 visitors in 2012.

    4 km · maritime museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Eye Filmmuseum

    Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands.

    3.8 km · Dutch archive and museum for cinema · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Oosterkerk

    The Oosterkerk is a 17th-Century Dutch Reformed church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Oosterkerk was built in the period 1669-1671 by architect Daniël Stalpaert and completed by Adriaan Dortsman.

    3.9 km · church building in Amsterdam · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Python Bridge

    Python Bridge, officially known as High Bridge, is a bridge that spans the canal between Sporenburg and Borneo Island in Eastern Docklands, Amsterdam.

    3 km · bridge in Amsterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Bimhuis

    The Bimhuis is a concert hall for jazz and improvised music in Amsterdam. With an average of 150 performances a year the Bimhuis is the main stage for these musical genres in the Netherlands.

    3.5 km · concert hall in Amsterdam · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lloyd Hotel

    The Hoxton, Lloyd Amsterdam is a hotel housed in a historic building in the Eastern Docklands of Amsterdam, commissioned by the Royal Holland Lloyd. Founded as a hotel, it initially housed travelling immigrants.

    3 km · monument in Amsterdam, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Kattenburgervaart

    The Kattenburgervaart is a short canal in Amsterdam that runs through the Oostelijke Eilanden. The canal separates the island of Wittenburg, which was built in the 17th century, from the island of Kattenburg.

    3.8 km · canal in Amsterdam, 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 Buikslotermeer

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 16 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 60 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 110 km
Stations
Noord metro station, 1.2 km · Noorderpark, 2.4 km
  • Rotterdam → Buikslotermeer
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · €8–12
  • Eindhoven → Buikslotermeer
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · €13–18
  • Groningen → Buikslotermeer
    142 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · €18–25
  • 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 Buikslotermeer

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    97 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    472 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    646 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    675 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    738 km

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

Around it

Next door to Buikslotermeer

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

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