HafenCity
HafenCity is a quarter in the borough of Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, Germany.
HafenCity is a quarter in the borough of Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, Germany. It is located on the Elbe river island Grasbrook, on the former Port of Hamburg area. It was formally established in 2008 and also includes the historical Speicherstadt area, which since 2015 is an UNESCO World Heritage Site with the adjacent Kontorhausviertel. The main landmark of the HafenCity is the Elbphilharmonie concert hall.
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Getting to HafenCity
- Airports
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 10 km · Bremen (BRE), 97 km · Hannover (HAJ), 122 km
- Bremen → HafenCity94 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · €12–17
- Hannover → HafenCity131 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · €15–21
- Greven → HafenCity54 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · €7–9
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for HafenCity
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 HafenCity. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe most likely places are the Hamburg Cruise Center Altona (near to the fish market) and the Hamburg Cruise Center HafenCity (next to the Unilever-Haus), check out the Hamburg Cruise Center home page There is a regular yet expensive ferry between Hamburg, Cuxhaven and Helgoland.
- Get inLübeck's port suburb Travemünde, about an hour away by train, is a major Baltic ferry port.
- Get inTo the east (A24-Berlin) and northeast (A1-Lübeck/Rostock/Puttgarden-ferry to Denmark), you can start at the "Horner-Kreisel" and take the number 261 bus from U-Burgstraße to U-S Barmbek (exit BAB-Auffahrt Horn or walk from U3-Rauhes Haus).
- Get around(2026) Urban rail lines in Hamburg]] Hamburg has an integrated public transportation system, operated by the HVV, which consists of six S-Bahn (commuter rail) lines, four U-Bahn (subway) lines, seven R-lines (regional trains), three A-lines (AKN), a dense network of bus lines and ferries across the Elbe.
- Get aroundTherefore, the HVV operates a fleet of ferries to connect the two banks of the Elbe.
From Wikivoyage: Hamburg, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to HafenCity
HafenCity is 1 km from Hamburg, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.