Transfer from Tegel Berlin to city center

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Any answer to your question will of course be slightly opinion based, but if you are more into shopping and getting some food and not necessarily into seeing historical sights (both is probably not manageable in 7 hours anyway), you don't have too many options.

I would have taken the 109 bus from Tegel to Adenauerplatz, located on the famous Kurfürstendamm avenue. The bus departs every 10 minutes and the ride takes 20 minutes. From Adenauerplatz, you can stroll 2km along the avenue towards Zoologischer Garten, passing many shops, cafés or places to eat.

When you reach the area around Zoologischer Garten, which can be considered the city centre of the former West Berlin, there are a few historical sights if you are interested e.g. the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, or if you have time, you can also continue a few hundred meters along Tauentzienstraße and visit Kaufhaus des Westens on Wittenbergplatz, one of the largest department stores in Europe or even visit the Zoo itself.

From Zoologischer Garten, you can take the X9 bus back to Tegel, which also takes 20 minutes and departs every 10 minutes.

One way tickets for public transport within the city of Berlin cost 2.70€ and allows you to transfer between different lines and interrupt your journey withing two hours after stamping the ticket. A daily pass is available for 6.90€ (is paid off if you plan to make three or more trips). Tickets can be bought from the bus driver, cash only and don't expect the bus driver to change larger bills. At the airport, you also find ticket vending machines at the bus stop, from which you can buy multiple tickets at once, which must be stamped later when you use them.

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Where exactly do you want to go in Berlin ? Here's the BVG, the transportation company for the Berlin area, there's a route planner on their home page

There's an airport shuttle called TXL which operates every few minutes according to their website. You can buy tickets at the airport, any other S-Bahn or U-Bahn station and even on the bus or tram (reference)

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Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) is quite a bit outside the city and there is no direct train connections there - you'll have to take the bus and change to either S- or U-Bahn (S=faster trains, longer distances between stops; U=underground, fairly tightly mashed net).

The local transport company is BVG and here you find their listing of routes etc by depature station and route planning. At the airport there are four bus routes:

TXL OPNV map

  • Bus X9/109/128 take you to U Kurt-Schumacher-Platz (Berlin) where you can change to the U6 underground and from that the whole network is accessible
  • Bus TXL takes you to S Beusselstr. (Berlin) or S+U Brandenburger Tor (Berlin) - the former allowing quick change to the S-Bahn, the latter bringing directly to Brandenburg Gate, one of Berlin's sights.

Here is a pdf (or: alternative, central parts only) of the train network (both S- and U-Bahn) - and at the top left of the central octagon you'll find the bus connections to TXL mentioned, including their connecting train stations.

For tickets there is an integrated system covering Bus, U- and S-Bahn and prices organized by zones - TXL airport is in zone B, while the center is covered by zone A, so you'll need to get the tickets for zones A&B. Tickets can be bought at machines at the airport or from the bus driver.

As to what to see - Berlin is a big city with a huge variety of sights. For a short transit visit, I guess Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag, and current govt buildings are a must - train stations: S Brandenburger Tor and U Bundestag will serve you well. For everything else do consult any page listing sights in Berlin and then the BVG website or Google maps for train route instructions.

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