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Get around Karlsruhe
Get around Karlsruhe
On foot: A lot to see in Karlsruhe is along Kaiserstrasse. Because all the streets radiate outward, the Marktplatz is a great place to start a walking tour of the city. If you go up or down Kaiserstrasse, you will find a great variety of shops and restaurants on both sides of the streets. If you go towards the Palace (right in front of you if you're in the Marktplatz), you can visit the city museum inside the castle, or the park right behind it, where the people of Karlsruhe congregate to picnic, play sports, and relax on nice days. Go farther and you can take a walk into the "Hartwald" which has a lot of trails right near the city center. Go south relative to the Marktplatz and you will soon come upon Ettlinger Tor and the Staatstheater. Exploring on foot allows you the opportunity to go down the allees and smaller streets in Karlsruhe where you can find a wonderful variety of shops, kneipes, and restaurants.
Public transport: Karlsruhe has an excellent public transportation system called KVV; its mostly built on tram-trains(stadtbahn).This allows trains to run on tram track within the city or on railway track to serve the surrounding areas.An overview of the entire transport network can be downloaded here . A single ticket for a trip within the city limits costs 2.20€ for adults, 1.20€ for kids. Most tickets have to be stamped upon entering a tram and controllers are quite frequent. In particular, for longer distances outside of Karlsruhe buying the right ticket can be a bit challenging, but in front of the main train station, you will find a KVV office that will be happy to assist you. Trains run late into the night, in particular on weekends, but almost every line stops for a few hours every night. Schedules and maps are posted on virtually every station: you can also find more information on fares and timetables on the KVV homepage (German only).
Rental bikes: During the summer, spring and autumn rental bikes are available throughout the city. A mobile phone is used to rent a bike and it can be 'returned' (again, using the mobile phone) at any inner city corner. To rent a bike costs no more than 0.08€/min or 9.00€/day. More information is available at and at the Call a bike page .
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