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- Blinker1315, on 07/02/2009, -0/+11Union Station in Washington, D.C. is a great place to spend a few hours. No one likes being delayed, but DC's Amtrak hub has a lot of unusual stores, plenty of food choices and a stunning view of the Capitol.
- iRoy, on 07/02/2009, -3/+12I demand to know why Grand Central Terminal, NYC was not included on this list. This is an outrage.
- seetheforest, on 07/02/2009, -0/+7I prefer Kyoto's train station. It easily deserves a spot on this list.
- eihwaz, on 07/02/2009, -0/+6Kyoto's station is really a piece of modern art, just beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCuxZsbruWs
I just wish they did something more to the top floor (at the end of the infinite stairway), last time I've been there there were just a bunch of little plants and flowers. - manicleek, on 07/02/2009, -0/+6It says top 10, Grand central is great, but not as good as the 10 listed in this article
- seltaeb4, on 07/02/2009, -2/+7What's wrong with stationary stores? It's always such a distraction when a store is moving all over the place while you're trying to do your shopping.
- MaryCait, on 07/02/2009, -3/+8Man oh man I wish there were more places to go via trains. The U.S. is so dumb for not utilizing them better.
- Eastlygod, on 07/02/2009, -0/+5Holy *****. Pickering on Digg. Who'd have thought it? Seriously though, the station isn't among the best 10 in the world. There is absolutly nothing there. Only interesting for the one weekend a year when they have the Wartime events on.
Don't know how it beat Milan Central Station onto the list...
http://www.hotelgonzagamilan.com/pics/station_aeri ...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/83/211239773_940d75 ...
Milan = Stunning. Pickering = Not. - Eastlygod, on 07/02/2009, -0/+4Are you still living in 2008? This is 2009 man, the stores move to you, no walking involved whatsoever!
I wouldn't be seen dead in a gloomy stationary store... - Chewie67, on 07/02/2009, -3/+7Union Station in Chicago is a joke compared to Grand Central.
- aSliceofPizza, on 07/02/2009, -0/+4Berlin Hauptbahnhof anyone? It's a work of modern art!
- Eastlygod, on 07/02/2009, -0/+3Interlaken my man, just for the train journey there. Some of the most stunning natural landscape in the world. You can then get the train up to Jungfraujoch - the highest station in Europe...
http://aerocarb.lsce.ipsl.fr/sites/dcep/jungfraujo ...
Beautiful, no? - LordJezo, on 07/02/2009, -0/+3Kyoto station should be on there. We explored it over two days and still didn't see everything there was to see in it. It's the most amazing station I have ever been to, and super clean (just like the rest of Japan).
- Mujokan, on 07/02/2009, -0/+3I've heard it described as a dagger through the heart of traditional Kyoto.
- duffduffxx, on 07/02/2009, -0/+2The Victoria Terminus in Mumbai is where you will want to spend as little time as possible....trust me
- adventureindia, on 07/02/2009, -0/+2Railway stations in India are really good to spend your time if you really want to see a huge crowd moving here and there
- JasonCox, on 07/02/2009, -0/+2You mean seeing a large crowd in the station or that large crowd hanging off the moving train?
- techtock, on 07/02/2009, -1/+3Yeah, those people in the Chicago station look like they're having a blast...
- athinnes, on 10/01/2009, -0/+2We are working on that....
- reanimationlp08, on 07/02/2009, -0/+2They forgot the Spissk Nova Ves, Slovakia train station.
- estebancortez, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1Stunning stations, although maybe a better image for the one in Mauritania....?
- lax767, on 07/02/2009, -1/+2Tokyo station? You could spend 3 days just walking around inside the station.
- Ran2004, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1Tokyo station is terrible. Shinjuku or Kyoto Station are actually nice inside. Tokyo station is the ***** one that is under construction and has little to nothing inside of it.
- missjames, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1My favorite distraction there is the chocolate shop. That's a nice little distraction when your train is delayed ...
- ehsteve23, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1having been delayed there yesterday i can say that the fountains outside Sheffield station are really beautiful to see.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14 ... - kjk437, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1Ha, I was in town for the inauguration, and my wife and I ended up sleeping there the night before because we didn't book a hotel downtown. Union Station is definitely more interesting at 3:00 a.m. with 5,000 people inside trying to catch some Z's.
- Threlly1, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1I actually prefer Alexanderplatz, the people coming and going from the square and the whole up and down design.
- Mujokan, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1I love the little train stations on the regional lines in Japan, especially in summer. The smaller the better. There is also a cute regional line in Tokyo with this two-carriage train with wooden interiors.
Anyone got any recommendations for Switzerland? - Hellahulla, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1But it's not in an old setting of Kyoto, it's right in the middle of the high rise glass and steel district. It's beautiful in comparison, for sure. I spent a few hours there, lots to see, many places to eat and drink and pretty nice overall.
- saranagati, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1i think its the building they film those huge gang bangs at in san fernando.
- avalenci, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1Tokyo is huge ... but it's patch over patch ... My heart is with Kyoto station. http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=kyoto%20station&am ...
- MacBandit, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1Buried for inaccurate. For one none of those train stations interested me. Second I would much rather explore the country around the train station but since they can never tell you if the f'ing train is 10 minutes away or an hour away your freaking stuck in the bastard station.
- beepthegeek, on 07/03/2009, -0/+1worth visiting.. :)
- thepicklebot, on 09/04/2009, -0/+1The one in Istanbul looks incredible!
- rdoger6424, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1That's Penn station
- kjk437, on 07/03/2009, -0/+1Yeah, but many armed soldiers/police officers with sniper rifles around held rioting to a minimum.
- SirLowKey, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1Utrecht Central Station in the Netherlands; part of the Hoog Catherijne Shoppingmall! Hup Holland!
- zhenya80, on 07/02/2009, -1/+2Chicago's Union Station although very historical is pretty boring. It has that dirty, depressing, empty, decaying, dying feel to it.
- 1longtime, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1Inauguration was a freebie. Any "normal" night, that would have been an instant robbery/assault. No joke, that's a rough place after dark.
- memper, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1It is a total failure that chicago has no real grand entrance to the city, and should not be on this list. The sadness in Chicago's Union Station is in the city's failure to recognize an important architectural feature of the city. It is literally buried under typical urban modernism, with very little affordance due to the piling of modernist structures around it which all appear to be more logical sites for a city's grand rail station in 2009.
Union Station's main doors appear to be the wrong way in. Modern Helvetica ridden sheet metal signs are bolted to and damage the 1925 architecture. The signs are so disconnected from the architectural style that one wonders if the signs are telling the truth. As you make your way, you wonder if you're really supposed to enter through the dark Gotham city like doors, but you do anyways to escape the madness of the buses and drop-off traffic skirmishing in the street a few feet away. The doors appear locked and unlikely, and simply a dangerous place to be.
Once inside you're met with stone steps which appear to have been made of drooping soap stone. Each step is worn to a dangerous oblique angle. If you survive these steps, you enter the Great Hall, where you can pause and think of the many GIs who said goodbye to their moms, their girlfriends, their lives before being shipped off from here. You can feel the millions who have walked through the space, the broken financiers, the flow of minorities during the riots, the politicians and the pickpockets, liberated working women and the hopes and dreams of people who arrived at this station with little more than their suitcase. This amazing place, the structure's most important feature, the Beaux-Arts grand hall has become nothing more than a hallway for travelers who have entered on the wrong side of the building.
The shoe shine still works there in a small shop around the corner from the modern automated glass doors in the basement which seem to serve no purpose other than to make the station appear modern. Visit the shoe shine. As he's taking the scuff and grime of the city away, or offering to replace your worn laces, let him tell you how it used to be, and you'll know what a shining, bustling city of dreams Chicago once was. - dsmx, on 07/02/2009, -1/+1Pity it will take at least 20 years for any policy enacted now to have an effect.
- dinglebutt, on 07/02/2009, -0/+0Poison gas on wheels.
- athinnes, on 10/01/2009, -1/+1My train station is better than your train station!!!
- rdoger6424, on 07/02/2009, -1/+1Like the rest of Manhattan
- newquayweb, on 07/22/2009, -0/+0if all stations,airport, terminals and waiting areas will be like this, i wouldn't mind being delayed instead, i would be more honored to be starnded.
- javaco, on 07/03/2009, -0/+0Netherlands has really some beautiful train stations.
Haarlem is nicest i've seen. - ChrisLisa10570, on 07/02/2009, -1/+0I doubt Union Station and Broken Hill should have been on the list.
- ucccft, on 07/02/2009, -4/+3Train Station? What's a Train Station?
- MirrorminD, on 07/02/2009, -5/+3because there's nothing special about it except for a lot of foreigners and it smells like pee.
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