Suburban Station
Suburban Station is an Art Deco office building and underground commuter rail station in Penn Center in Philadelphia.
Suburban Station is an Art Deco office building and underground commuter rail station in Penn Center in Philadelphia. Its official SEPTA address is 16th Street and JFK Boulevard. The station is owned and operated by SEPTA and is one of the three core Center City stations on the SEPTA Regional Rail and one of the busiest stations in the Regional Rail system.
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Worth seeing in and around Suburban Station
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 Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Chartered in 1755 by its first president Benjamin Franklin, who advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in academia, commerce, and public service, it is one of nine colonial colleges in the country.
1.6 km · private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 02Independence Hall
Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were debated and adopted by the Founding Fathers of the United States. The building, which is the centerpiece of Independence National Historical Park, was designated a World Heritage Site in 1979.
2.1 km · historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 03Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval.
1.6 km · art museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 04Temple University
Temple University is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation at the Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia, then called Baptist Temple.
3.7 km · public research university in Philadelphia, United States · Wikipedia - 05Philadelphia City Hall
The Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of the City of Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Built in the ornate Second Empire style, City Hall houses the chambers of the Philadelphia City Council and the offices of the Mayor of Philadelphia.
900 m · historic building housing Philadelphia's municipal government · Wikipedia - 06Drexel University
Drexel University is a private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a financier and philanthropist.
1.3 km · private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 07Comcast Center
The Comcast Center, also known as the Comcast Tower, is a skyscraper at 1701 John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Center City, Philadelphia. The 58-story, 973-foot tower is the second-tallest building in Philadelphia and in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the 31st-tallest building in the United States.
600 m · skyscraper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 08First Bank of the United States
The President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States, commonly known as the First Bank of the United States, was a national bank, chartered for a term of twenty years, by the United States Congress on February 25, 1791. It followed the Bank of North America, the nation's first de facto national bank.
2.5 km · bank building · Wikipedia - 09Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1805, it is the longest continuously operating art museum and art school in the United States.
1.1 km · museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 10Liberty Place
Liberty Place is a skyscraper complex in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The complex is composed of a 61-story, 945-foot skyscraper called One Liberty Place, a 58-story, 848-foot skyscraper called Two Liberty Place, a two-story shopping mall called the Shops at Liberty Place, and the 14-story Westin Philadelphia Hotel.
600 m · architectural structure (skyscraper) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
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Getting to Suburban Station
- Airports
- Philadelphia (PHL), 11 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 118 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 141 km
- Stations
- 30th Street Station, 800 m
- New York → Suburban Station130 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · $12–17
- Newark → Suburban Station121 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · $11–15
- Baltimore → Suburban Station144 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · $13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Suburban Station
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 Suburban Station. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAir charter companies such as Monarch Air Group and Mercury Jets fly a variety of private charter aircraft and jets, from charter luxury Gulfstream's down to economical piston twins for small groups and individuals.
- Get inThe RiverLink and Freedom Ferry services provide travel from Philadelphia to neighboring Camden, New Jersey, between April and September.
- Get inAccess to the other waterfront attractions, including an aquarium, is also provided by the ferry service.
- Get aroundThose rates are as follows: Lindenwold, Ashland & Woodcrest Stations and Philadelphia: $3.00 Haddonfield, Westmont & Collingswood Stations and Philadelphia: $2.60 Ferry Avenue (Camden) Station and Philadelphia: $2.25 Travel within Pennsylvania, between Broadway and City Hall (Camden), and between PA and those two stations: $1.40 Any other trip within New Jersey: $1.60 Note that PATCO is not operated by SEPTA and uses its own fare system.
From Wikivoyage: Philadelphia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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