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- What?
- How?
- Alsterlake & City Canals / Alster & Fleete
- Harbor / Hafen
- Hafencity – district / Stadtteil
- Speicherstadt
- Altona / Ottensen – districts / Stadtteile
- Reeperbahn – entertainment mile in the St. Pauli discrict / Amüsierviertel
- Wilhelmsburg – district / Stadtteil
- Veddel / Entenwerder / Kleiner Grasbrook – districts / Stadtteile
- Hamburg, here and there / Dies & Das
What?
This is a collection of obvious and not so obvious targets you may visit. No matter how long you stay, you will not have enough time to see everything, so I would recommend not to try to „see as much as possible“. If you do your tours with Relaxation you will have a great time. If you can, come at the weekdays – less people, more relaxing.
How?
Alsterlake & City Canals / Alster & Fleete
- Various boat trips: Maps / Alster-Touristik
- Pedal boat, kayaking, sailing: Boots- und Kanuverleih
Harbor / Hafen
- A nice starting point for harbor exploration, via Altona, instead of Landungsbrücken.
- Bus 111: Link
- Landungsbrücken and St. Pauli Elbtunnel: Maps Go through the tunnel – from the other side of the river you have a very nice view of the harbor line:
- Fischmarkt, a little crazy market. You will come back with a tinnitus and two big bags of fruit, that’s ok. 😉 Sunday from 5/7 – 9:30am: Link / Maps
- Fischauktionshalle (Events, sunday morning brunch): Maps
- Fleetfahrt, boat trip: Alster-Touristik / Maps. Very nice mix of harbor impressions and Hamburg „from the other side“ in the small canals. They also drive between houses.
- Hafenrundfahrt, boat trip: Maps. If you have to chose between the two, I would recommend a Fleetfahrt.
- Dockland (Viewing platform): Maps
- Stintfang (Viewing platform): Maps
- U-Boot Museum: Maps
- Rickmer Rickmers, Museumsschiff: Maps
- Cap San Diego, Museumsschiff: Maps
- Hafenkran: Maps
- Museumshafen Övelgönne: Maps
- Park Fiction: Maps
- König der Löwen (Musical): Maps
- Airbus (final assembly of the A380): Maps / Link
- Beaches & other things. From the center, in the direction to the sea:
- Elbstrand / Pyramide Övelgönne: Maps
- Elbstrand / Strandperle: Maps
- Elbstrand / Der alte Schwede Maps
- Elbstrand / Hindenburgpark Maps
- Elbstrand / Landungsbrücke Teufelsbrück / Restaurant Engel Maps (Bus 39 Route)
- Elbstrand / Kleine Rast Maps
- Elbstrand / Kajüte SB12 Maps
- Elbstrand / Falkensteiner Ufer Maps
- Ship welcoming station (Wedel): Maps
Snacks / Restaurants
- Hafen Diner – Burger & Bar: Maps (the best french fries on the planet):
- „Brücke 10„: Maps Fischbrötchenbuden gibt es viele – hier wird mit Fisch nicht gegeizt und die Brötchen sind knackig. Auf den Pontons der Landungsbrücken, ganz hinten. Könnte voll sein.
Restaurants with water-view
- Balzac Coffee, something like Starbucks: Maps
- Tasquinha Galego, Portuguese: Maps
- Das Feuerschiff LV 13, Hanseatic cuisine: Maps
- Stricker’s Kehr Wieder Spitze: Maps Coffee & cake delicious – I suspect the rest as well.
- Fischereihafenrestaurant (delicious fish, and other): Maps
- La Vela, Italian: Maps
- Hamburger Elbspeicher, North German fish and meat specialties: Maps
- L’Osteria, Italian: Maps
- Rive, fish restaurant: Maps
- Augustinum (above is a roof cafe with a view): Maps
Hafencity
- Hafencity Infopoint: Maps
- Elbphilharmonie Besucherzentrum (visitor center): Maps
- Maritimes Museum: Maps
- Viewpoint: Maps
- Marco-Polo-Terrassen: Maps
- Marco-Polo-Tower: Maps
- Unilever Cafe (River View): Maps
- Dalmannkai Treppen: Maps
- Magellan-Terrassen: Maps
- Lotsenschoner No.5: Maps
Man geht auf einem Steg, Wasser & coole Architektur rundum, und ein anderer Blick auf die Elbphilharmonie. - Sandtorpark: Maps
- Segway City Tour: Maps
- Hafencity Universität: Maps
- Strandhöft (outlook): Maps
- Event-Schiff Stubniz: Maps
- Lighthouse Zero: Maps
Speicherstadt
- Speicherstadtmuseum: Maps
- Miniatur-Wunderland: Maps
- Hamburg Dungeon: Maps
- Zoll-Museum, Customs museum: Maps
- Chocoversum, Schokoladenmuseum: Maps
- Restaurant Wasserschloß: Maps
- Cafe & Snacks Fleetschlößchen: Maps
- Lee’s Sushi Bar: Maps
- Kaffeerösterei, coffee roasting: Maps
Altona / Ottensen
- Cafe Knuth: Maps / Link
- Shopping Center Mercado, Maps
- Sushi (ground floor, in the middle)
- Ice Cream (1th floor)
- On your way to the harbor (Route)
Reeperbahn
- Sankt Pauli Museum: Maps
- Waxworks: Panoptikum, Wachsfigurenkabinett: Maps
- Boutique Bizarre: Maps If you want to get a little bit excited or scared – it depends. 😉 Be respectful in the shop – they are already tourist-plagued.
- Schmidts Tivoli, Theater: Maps
- Burlesque Bar: Maps
- Police: Polizeikommissariat 15, Davidwache: Maps
Wilhelmsburg
Pflugacker to S Wilhelmsburg: Route
Wilhelmsburg is multi-cultural and on a relatively small area a wild mix of water + industry + village + city + old & shabby + new & shining.
Tip: rent a bike… Fahrradverleih in Wilhelmsburg (also guided tours). Beside the „mix-factor“ I really like that many streets have lots of big trees – looks very nice and is colder in summer than naked houses.
- Hamburgs city planning authority: Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Wohnen: Maps (they have models of the city)
- Energiebunker: Maps (a bunker from the second world war, now used for energy-purposes)
- Tour „Wild Mix„:
- From bus station Rathausmarkt with Bus 34 over district Veddel to the Energiebunker. Via Harburger Chaussee, Vogelhüttendeich and Veringstraße you will get some of the „wild mix“ feeling: Route
- From Energiebunker you could walk here, to get a bit more of the mix: Route
- And then just a few meters away, a nice/interesting area: Route
- At the end, some cream:
- You could walk 1,0 Km from station „Stübenplatz“ to ferry „Ernst August Schleuse“, to get to Landungsbrücken: Route. Or…
- You could walk 3,5 Km from station „Stübenplatz“, over district Steinwerder, to station „Theater im Hafen“, and take a ferry there to get to Landungsbrücken: Route. Or…
- You could walk 4,6 Km from station „Stübenplatz“ over discrict Steinwerder, and walk thru the old Elbtunnel, then walk to Landungsbrücken: Maps.
- Note: If you don’t want to walk, there’s bus 156, but like the ferry, it does not drive at weekends. Google Maps will then show you other possibilities (U/S Bahn).
- BIG bridge: Köhlbrandbrücke (for cars/bus only). By bus, but only 1x hour (Fahrplan):
- Garbage heap 😉 – Energieberg (with a „high“ round path): Maps
- Some architecture projects: In the area of „Am Inselpark„: Maps (It was the area for the „Internationale Gartenschau 2013“.)
Nice Cafes
Veddel / Entenwerder / Kleiner Grasbrook
- Copper Factory: Kupferhütte: Maps
- Emigrant Museum: BallinStadt – Auswanderermuseum: Maps
- Mal richtig baggern (dig it right): Maps 😉
- Cafe Entenwerder 1: Maps (was a secret tip, but is these days often crowded)
- Harbor Museum: Hafenmuseum Hamburg: Maps
Hamburg, here and there 😉
- Memorial second world war: Church St. Nikolai, 70 Meter view point: Maps
- Main Church Michel, 106 Meter view point: Maps
- A nice Zoo: Tierpark Hagenbeck, with Tropen-Aquarium: Maps
- Large Park: Stadtpark: Maps
- Our universe: Planetarium: Maps
- Art: Hamburger Kunsthalle: Maps
- Ethnology: Museum für Völkerkunde: Maps
- Plants & Park: Planten un Blomen: Maps
- Large Funfair (seasonal open), DOM: Maps
- Bunker, Flakturm IV (from second world war): Maps
- DESY particle accelerator (Physik/Forschung, Teilchenbeschleuniger): Maps / Info / Führungen (for english, click the British flag on their homepage)
