Focus on Public Transport Amsterdam
The public transport system in Amsterdam operates like a well oiled piece of machinery. The many trams, buses, metro’s and trains of Amsterdam should help get you from your Amsterdam apartment to virtually anywhere, and even when they don’t there’s always plenty of taxi’s available at taxi stands or on demand. And even when you wish to get to Amsterdam Schiphol airport, or other popular Dutch cities such as Rotterdam, Utrecht or Den Haag, it shouldn’t take you long to get there by public transport.
Life in Amsterdam, the logistics of the public transport in Amsterdam
It is however important to look at the possibilities of the public transport if you’re planning on making serious use of it. For example, for someone living in the west part of Amsterdam Oud-West or Jordaan, it could still take some time getting to a certain neighborhood in Amsterdam Oost because there won’t always be direct bus or tram lines running to where you need to get in Amsterdam, and especially outside the city limits. It is therefore advisable to examine the options of the public transport you have around the house or apartment of your dreams.
The public transport card in Amsterdam / Netherlands
If you want to use the public transport in Amsterdam / The Netherlands you have to buy an OV-Chipkaart. In trams you can buy this card in the tram itself, but we'd advice you to buy this public transport card on forehand as you pay less.
Amsterdam train travelling
Centraal Station Amsterdam is the central train station of Amsterdam, from here you can travel to other parts of Amsterdam, as well throughout The Netherlands. If you want to travel by train, you have to purchase a public transport card as well. Interested in where you can go from Amsterdam Centraal Station? Here is a map of the trainlines in The Netherlands and you can visit the Dutch Railway Company website here. Travelling with the train in The Netherlands is not that cheap and trains have often delays as the Dutch Railway System is one of the most busiest in the whole world.
Amsterdam tram lines
All the tramlines start at the Amsterdam Centraal Station (also the place where the train station is). Travelling in Amsterdam with the tram is often a fast and cheap solution. These trams lead you into the center of Amsterdam are these: tram 2 and tram 5 (via the Dam to the canals, from the canals to the Leidseplein (Leidse Square), from the Leidseplein to the Museumplein (Museum Square), from that point the tram lines split up). Tram 1 goes also from the Dam to the canals, and from the canals to the Leidseplein and from there it goes to Osdorp (an area with newly built houses for bored families). Tram 16 and tram 24 lead you also through the canals and through de Pijp (an interesting mixed cultures, student, arty area) and from there to Museumplein. The whole ‘train map’ with the tram lines can be found here.
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