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Getting Here & Onward

Prague sits within a few hours of Vienna, Munich, Dresden and Berlin. The trains, the buses, the fares and whether the journey is worth a day.

The entrance to Praha hlavní nådraŞí, Prague's main railway station
Photograph by VitVit, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Prague sits inside a few hours of four other capitals and major cities, which makes it unusually good value as one stop on a longer trip rather than a single destination.

Praha hlavní nådraŞí is the main station and the one nearly every international service uses. It is a short walk or one metro stop from the old town, which is worth knowing before paying for a taxi.

Vienna, Dresden, Berlin and Munich are all reachable by direct train or coach. Journey times and fares vary enough by operator and how far ahead you book that we publish them per route, with the date checked, rather than as a single table that goes stale.

Articles here cover each route: which station, roughly how long, what a ticket costs, whether the coach beats the train, and what is worth seeing when you arrive.

The check-in hall at Prague airport
The airport has no rail link — the bus is the cheap way in. Photograph by Filip Troníček, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Wenceslas Square from the National Museum dome
Dresden, Vienna and Berlin are all a few hours away. Photograph by VitVit, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
The Powder Tower beside the Municipal House
Arriving by train puts you in the centre, not on the edge of it. Photograph by A.Savin, Wikimedia Commons, FAL

This section is being written. The guide above is the section for now. New articles are published across the site about twice a week rather than a section being filled in a day, so this page grows steadily — it is worth looking in again. In the meantime the sixteen sight pages and the plans by trip length are finished, and they are the best place to start.

Queued for this section

  • How do you get from Prague Airport into the city, and what does each option cost?
  • How do you get from Prague to Vienna, and what does the train cost?
  • How do you get from Prague to Berlin, and how long does it really take?
  • How do you get from Prague to Munich, and is the bus better than the train?

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