Nijmegen is a large city in the southeast of the Netherlands, population 160,000 (city proper), It's the largest city in Gelderland, and in the Arnhem-Nijmegen metropolitan area (pop. 725,000) Nijmegen is well-known for it's left-wing politics, and its large student population.
Get in
By PlaneAirport Weeze (NRN) is located 20 miles southeast of town, between the villages of Weeze and Nieuw-Bergen. Although both Ryanair (the biggest airline serving the airport) and the airport itself advertise with Duesseldorf-Weeze, Duesseldorf proper is actually not anywhere near the airport. The city of Duesseldorf is located 60 miles to the southeast of the airport, making Nijmegen the only
major city close to the airport.
The only form of public transportation nonstop to Nijmegen is a taxivan you have to reserve in advance and will set you back EUR 15,- (one-way)
For the more adventurous traveller, it's possible to get to Nijmegen by city bus to the Weeze railway station, then take a train into Kleve, where you can get a bus into Nijmegen. This will take about 75 minutes and costs EUR 5.90-7.60 (one-way)
Another option is to just hitch. There's a major freeway not far from the airport, connecting Duesseldorf with Nijmegen. This can take as little as 30-45 minutes if you're lucky, and 4-6 hours if you're not.
Amsterdam-Schiphol airport (AMS) the largest airport in the Netherlands, about 100 miles to the northwest. Train takes about an hour and 45 minutes, and will cost EUR 17,- one way. You do have to change trains in
Duivendrecht, a suburb of Amsterdam. This airport gets served by most major carriers, and has in excess of 100 flights to the United States alone per day.
By Train.....The Dutch Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen, NS) serve Nijmegen from all parts of the Netherlands non-stop. There are 4 trains an hour to Utrecht, 2 of which continue to Amsterdam and Den Helder. At Utrecht, you can change on trains to Schiphol Airport or Rotterdam and The Hague. 4 trains per hour depart for Zutphen of which 2 continue to Deventer and Zwolle (with connections to Leeuwarden and Groningen in Zwolle). Furthermore, 2 trains per hour connect to Tilburg-Breda-Roosendaal (with connections in Breda to Rotterdam/The Hague, and in Roosendaal to Antwerp/Brussels). Also, there's an hourly service to Roermond.
The neighboring cities of Arnhem and 's-Hertogenbosch are served by commuter trains: 4 trains per hour leave for 's-Hertogenbosch and 6 trains per hour for Arnhem. On this last connection, there are up to 10 trains per hour between Nijmegen and Arnhem during rush hour.
By BusNijmegen is connected to the German city of Kleve by bus. This bus (58) usually runs once per hour, but it does not go in the evenings and barely goes on sunday.
By CarThe A73 connects Nijmegen with Venlo, the A77/A57 leads to the German Rhineland. The A15 runs between Nijmegen and Rotterdam and the A50 (Eindhoven-Zwolle) skims the western edge of the metropolitan area. There are many feeder highways connecting these freeways to the city.
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