How to get to Leipzig, Germany | Leipzig travel guides

Leipzig is a transportation hub in Saxony.

By train

Leipzig's Hauptbahnhof is the largest terminal railway station in Europe with 26 platforms, and also includes a large shopping mall, a tedious way to waste away an hour or two between connections. The train station also has the most expensive station toilets in Western Europe: â¬1.10 per tinkle.

Deutsche Bahn (http://bahn.de) operates regular train service between Leipzig and nearby cities such as Halle â¬9, 25 minutes, Magdeburg â¬20, 75 minutes, Erfurt â¬28, 60 minutes, Jena â¬24, 60 minutes, Weimar â¬25, 60 minutes, Dessau â¬11, 50 minutes, Lutherstadt Eisleben â¬13, 80 minutes, Lutherstadt Wittenberg â¬12, 30 minutes, Potsdam â¬47, 2 hours, and Berlin â¬43, 80 minutes. High speed express trains are available to major cities in Germany including Frankfurt â¬72, 3.5 hours, Munich â¬89, 4.5 hours, Hamburg â¬93, 3 hours, and Dresden â¬20, 90 minutes. Prague â¬50, 4.5 hours can be reached with a transfer in Dresden.

InterConnex (http://www.interconnex.com/) offers a daily services from Leipzig to Rostock via Berlin and back. Buy your ticket on the train or online. Prices aboard: Rostock 35â¬, Berlin 23â¬. Special offers available online.

By plane

Leipzig/Halle Airport IATA: LEJ (http://www.leipzig-halle-...), sometimes called Schkeuditz Airport, is 22km northwest of central Leipzig. The airport is the second biggest airport in Eastern Germany after Berlin. Trains run between the airport and the city every 30 minutes; the trip takes 14 minutes and costs â¬3.60.

The following airlines operate service to/from Leipzig/Halle Airport:

Air Berlin Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Luxor, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South, Antalya, Corfu, Djerba, Faro, Funchal, Heraklion, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Monastir, Nuremberg, Sharm el-Sheikh, Thessaloniki,Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle,Air Malta Malta, Air Via Bourgas, Korfu, Palma de Mallorca, Varna,Air Cairo Hurghada,Atlasjet Antalya,Austrian Airlines Vienna,Bulgarian Air Charter Bourgas, Varna Condor Antalya, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Marsa Alam, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South, Dalaman, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Larnaca, Malaga, Rhodes, Sharm-el-Sheikh,Corendon Airlines Antalya,Croatia Airlines Dubrovnik, Split,Eurocypria Airlines Larnaca, Paphos,Freebird Airlines Antalya, Istanbul ,Germanwings Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart,Germania Antalya, Heraklion, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes,Hamburg International Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Debrecen, Balaton, Heraklion,Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich, DÃ¼sseldorf,Nouvelair Monastir,OLT Brussels,Pegasus Airlines Antalya ,Ryanair Rome-Ciampino, (London-Stansted ,Sky Airlines Antalya,SunExpress Antalya,Tailwind Airlines Antalya, Ercan,TUIfly Antalya, Heraklion, Rhodes,Tunis Air Djerba, Monastir,Turkuaz Airlines Antalya,Viking Hellas Heraklion, Paphos, andXL Airways Germany Burgas, Heraklion, Monastir, Varna

Berlin's airports IATA: TXL, SXF are just two hours away by train and offer more options. As an intercontinental flyer you should also consider Frankfurt IATA: FRA. During daytime, hourly direct trains take you from the airport station Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnhof to Leipzig Hauptbahnhof in about 4 hours for 74â¬.

By car

Leipzig can easily be reached by car, as it is very well connected with the Autobahn highway system. The nearest Autobahn highways are A14 North, Northeast, A9 West and A38 South.