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Travel to Basel


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equivalent amount in Euros. This ticket is valid to anywhere in Basel, and you do not need to buy another ticket when you change to a tram. If you have a trioregio local ticket, you can also travel via St Louis as it is valid until Mulhouse, France

 By train

Basel has two main train stations. The Basel SBB station is south of the town center and the Basel Badischer Bahnh of (abbreviated Basel Bad Bf) is to the north in Kleinbasel. All trains call at Basel SBB with Deutsche Bahn trains also calling at Badischer Bahnhof.

Swiss SBB trains depart from the Swiss capital Zurich (53 min), Bern (55 min) and Geneve (2� h) every half-hour. Slower regional trains connects with most major Swiss cities, there is atleast one depature every second hour.

Deutche Bahn runs high-speed ICE trains every second hour from Berlin (7 h) via Frankfurt (2�), which itself has plenty of trains heading for Basel. Paris is only three hours away with the high-speed TGV trains of SNCF. Basel can be reached from most other major French cities with a simply change in Mulhouse which is connected by frequent regional trains. Other cities with direct connections include Brussels (6� h), Luxembourg (3:20 h) and Milan (4 h).

Basel is also a hub for night trains, services are nightly from Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen and Prague with City Night Line. A long-distance night train from Moscow via Minsk and Warsaw is also avalible.

 By tram

Basel is one of only two places on earth where you can cross an international border on a streetcar, or tram. Tram route 10 crosses the Swiss-French border twice, passing into and out of French territory. So it is possible to travel to Basel by tram from the French commune of Leymen. Unfortunately, Leymen station is not connected to the rest of the French railway network. The international tram line is operated by BLT, public transport company.

 By car

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