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Amsterdam

Golden Age canals, world-class museums and wood-panelled brown cafés.

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Before you go

Tips for Amsterdam

Transport, opening hours, food and what to avoid.

  1. Getting there

    From Schiphol by train

    Trains leave from below the airport for Amsterdam Centraal every few minutes and take about 15 minutes. Pay by tapping your contactless card on the reader when you enter and leave.

  2. Getting around

    Tap in and tap out

    On GVB trams, metro and buses you tap your contactless card when you board and again when you get off. Forget to tap out and you're charged the maximum fare.

  3. Watch out

    Bike lanes aren't pavements

    The red lanes belong to bikes, and they're fast. Look before you cross and don't stop on them for photos.

  4. Watch out

    No smoking on the street

    In the Red Light District smoking cannabis on the street is banned and can get you fined. And no photos of the windows: they're not allowed.

  5. Eating

    Dinner comes early

    Many kitchens open around 5:30 pm and by 10 pm it's hard to find a table. Book ahead at the well-known places.

  6. Getting around

    Watch the canals

    The quaysides have no railings and are hard to see at night. Take care walking by the water after dark.

  7. Opening hours

    Rain-jacket weather

    It rains often and in short bursts, at any time of year. A light rain jacket is more useful than an umbrella in the wind.

Checked on November 4, 2026

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  1. Essential

    Museums & culture· Museumplein

    Rijksmuseum

    The Dutch national museum, home to Rembrandt's Night Watch and Vermeer's paintings in the Gallery of Honour. The passage running under the building doubles as a cycle path.

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    Ice skaters on the rink in front of the Rijksmuseum's brick façade and towers
  2. Essential

    Museums & culture· Museumplein

    Van Gogh Museum

    The world's largest Van Gogh collection, hung so you can follow his life from the dark early canvases to the sunflowers and the fields of Auvers.

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    The Van Gogh Museum building seen from Museumplein
  3. Essential

    Museums & culture· Canal Ring

    Anne Frank House

    The Prinsengracht house where Anne Frank and her family hid during the Nazi occupation. The visit takes you through the secret annex behind the revolving bookcase.

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    The Anne Frank House façade on the Prinsengracht canal
  4. Essential

    Museums & culture· Dam Square

    Royal Palace Amsterdam

    Built in the 17th century as the city hall, it dominates Dam Square. Inside, the Citizens' Hall has maps of the world set into its marble floor.

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    The Royal Palace's classical façade and cupola seen from Dam Square

  5. Museums & culture· Museumplein

    Stedelijk Museum

    The city's museum of modern art and design, from Mondrian and Malevich to Warhol. Its white extension, nicknamed 'the bathtub', stands out across the square.

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    The Stedelijk Museum's white new wing beside the original brick building

  6. Museums & culture· De Wallen

    Oude Kerk

    Amsterdam's oldest building, a Gothic church with a wooden vault and a floor of gravestones, now surrounded by the streets of the Red Light District.

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    Damrak canal houses lit at dusk and reflected in the water, with the Oude Kerk tower behind

  7. Museums & culture· Jordaan

    Westerkerk

    A 17th-century Protestant church on the Prinsengracht with the tallest tower in the centre. Rembrandt is buried here, and Anne Frank wrote about its bells.

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    The Westerkerk tower rising above the Prinsengracht houses

  8. Museums & culture· Jewish Quarter

    Rembrandt House Museum

    The house where Rembrandt lived and painted for almost twenty years, furnished as in his day, with his studio and a large collection of his etchings.

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    The brick façade and red shutters of the Rembrandt House

  9. Museums & culture· Oosterdok

    National Maritime Museum

    Dutch seafaring history in a former admiralty storehouse with a glass-roofed courtyard. Moored alongside is a full-size replica of an East India Company ship.

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    The Maritime Museum building on the water of the Oosterdok

  10. Museums & culture· De Wallen

    Our Lord in the Attic

    A clandestine Catholic church hidden in the attic of a 17th-century canal house, from the years when Catholics could not worship in public.

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    Inside the hidden attic church, with wooden galleries and an altar
  11. Essential

    Viewpoint· Noord

    A'DAM Lookout

    The deck on top of the A'DAM Tower across the IJ, with 360-degree views over the city and a swing that sweeps out over the edge.

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    The A'DAM Tower on the north bank of the IJ, with Central Station and the centre behind

  12. Viewpoint· Oosterdok

    NEMO Rooftop

    The ship-shaped green science museum has a stepped rooftop open to the public, looking out over the harbour and the old-town roofs.

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    NEMO's green, ship-shaped building rising over the harbour water

  13. Viewpoint· Oosterdok

    OBA Oosterdok Library

    The city's central library, a few minutes from the station. Its top floor has a café and terrace with one of the best free views of the centre.

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    The OBA Oosterdok library building facing the water
  14. Essential

    Nature & beaches· Oud-Zuid

    Vondelpark

    Amsterdam's best-known park, laid out in the English style with ponds, lawns and an open-air theatre. It's where the city comes to run, cycle and picnic.

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    A tree-lined pond in Vondelpark

  15. Nature & beaches· Plantage

    Hortus Botanicus

    One of the world's oldest botanical gardens, founded in 1638, with tropical glasshouses and plants brought back on East India Company ships.

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    Glasshouse and gardens at the Hortus Botanicus
  16. Essential

    Shopping· Canal Ring

    The Nine Streets

    Nine little streets crossing the main canals, packed with small shops, vintage clothing, galleries and cafés. It's the most pleasant stretch for wandering between canals.

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    A bridge over the Herengracht with canal houses on both sides

  17. Shopping· De Pijp

    Albert Cuyp Market

    The city's biggest street market, with stalls selling cheese, herring, fruit and freshly made stroopwafels along an entire street in De Pijp.

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    A herring stall at the Albert Cuyp Market

  18. Shopping· Singel

    Flower Market

    Flower and tulip-bulb stalls set on barges along the Singel canal, a tradition dating from when flowers arrived in the city by boat.

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    Flower stalls of the market along the Singel canal

  19. Shopping· Jordaan

    Noordermarkt

    The square around the Noorderkerk in the Jordaan, home to an organic farmers' market on Saturdays and a fabric and antiques market on Monday mornings.

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    Market stalls on the Noordermarkt by the Noorderkerk

  20. Café· Jordaan

    Winkel 43

    A corner café facing the Noordermarkt, known for its tall Dutch apple pie served with a dollop of whipped cream.

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    A slice of apple pie with whipped cream at Winkel 43

  21. Café· Leidseplein

    Café Americain

    The grand café of the American Hotel, a listed 1900 landmark, with stained glass, brass lamps and high Art Nouveau ceilings.

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    The Art Nouveau façade of the American Hotel on Leidseplein, home of Café Americain

  22. Café· Spui

    Café Hoppe

    One of the city's oldest brown cafés, on Spui square, with sand on the floor, jenever barrels and drinkers spilling onto the pavement.

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    The front of Café Hoppe on Spui square

  23. Café· Zeedijk

    Café In 't Aepjen

    A brown café in one of the two wooden houses left in the centre, dating from the 16th century, at the start of the Zeedijk. Its name recalls the monkeys sailors left to settle their bills.

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    The 16th-century gabled wooden house holding In 't Aepjen, at the start of the Zeedijk

  24. Restaurant· Oud-West

    Foodhallen

    An indoor food hall inside De Hallen, a former tram depot, with dozens of stalls serving bitterballen, dim sum, tacos and burgers.

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    The covered indoor passage of De Hallen, the former tram depot

  25. Restaurant· Nieuwmarkt

    In de Waag

    A restaurant inside De Waag, a city gate from 1488 later used as a weigh house, lit by candles and with a terrace on the Nieuwmarkt.

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    De Waag with its brick towers on the Nieuwmarkt

  26. Restaurant· Jewish Quarter

    Café De Sluyswacht

    The old lock keeper's house, a visibly leaning 17th-century building next to the Rembrandt House, now a bar with a terrace over the Oudeschans canal.

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    The black, leaning house of Café De Sluyswacht beside the canal

  27. Restaurant· Dam Square

    Wynand Fockink

    A tasting room from 1679 in an alley behind Dam Square, where Dutch jenever and liqueurs are poured into glasses filled to the brim.

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    The entrance to the Wynand Fockink tasting room in an alley
  28. Essential

    Special place· Spui

    Begijnhof

    A hidden courtyard behind a door off Spui, ringed by houses once home to the Beguines. It keeps Het Houten Huys, one of the two wooden houses left in the centre.

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    Houses around the garden courtyard of the Begijnhof

  29. Special place· Amstel

    Magere Brug

    The white wooden drawbridge over the Amstel, which still lifts to let boats through. At night it's outlined by hundreds of light bulbs.

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    The white Magere Brug drawbridge over the Amstel

  30. Special place· Oost

    Brouwerij 't IJ

    A craft brewery at the foot of De Gooyer, the city's tallest windmill, with a terrace for trying its beers beneath the sails.

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    De Gooyer windmill, next to Brouwerij 't IJ

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Ice skaters on the rink in front of the Rijksmuseum's brick façade and towers8 places

Amsterdam essentials

The Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum and the Anne Frank House, the Royal Palace, the Begijnhof, the Nine Streets, Vondelpark and the views from A'DAM Lookout.

The Van Gogh Museum building seen from Museumplein8 places

Amsterdam museums

The three Museumplein museums, the Anne Frank House, Rembrandt's home, a church hidden in an attic, the Maritime Museum and the Royal Palace.

Houses around the garden courtyard of the Begijnhof9 places

Canals and old town

The Oude Kerk and Westerkerk, the Royal Palace, the Begijnhof, De Waag, the Magere Brug, the Nine Streets, the flower market and De Gooyer windmill.

The A'DAM Tower on the north bank of the IJ, with Central Station and the centre behind6 places

Views and parks

The views from A'DAM Lookout, the NEMO rooftop and the OBA library, the Magere Brug, Vondelpark and the Hortus Botanicus garden.

The front of Café Hoppe on Spui square11 places

Where to eat in Amsterdam

Brown cafés like Hoppe and In 't Aepjen, Winkel 43's apple pie, the leaning De Sluyswacht, jenever at Wynand Fockink, the Foodhallen and the city's markets.

Amsterdam is best explored on foot or by bike along the canal ring, which links Dam Square with the Jordaan and the museum quarter. We've gathered the museums worth booking ahead, old-town corners, views over the IJ and the brown cafés and snack stands locals still use. Pick a collection, save it to Google Maps and have it ready on your phone.

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