This is a little series about Christmas markets in Berlin:
In Japan live about 2 per cent Christians. So for sure, it would not be the first country you would associate with Christmas. But this fact doesn’t keep Berlin from organising a Japanese Christmas market. What you can find there? Please scroll down …
Two other famous Christmas markets are the one at Alexanderplatz and just a few metres from there at Rotes Rathaus. I will tell you where you find a rink for ice skating, real snow, which doesn’t depend on the weather and meet Santa Claus.
The next Christmas market I visited was the one around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at the Breitscheidplatz in Charlottenburg. The Christmas market is right next to the famous shopping street of Kurfürstendamm. You can reach it by subway getting out at “Zoologischer Garten” or “Kurfürstendamm”.
Berlin has more than 50 Christmas markets, including the Winterworld at Potsdamer Platz. Potsdamer Platz is one of the most famous places for tourists to visit in Berlin because it is close to the Brandenburger Gate and therefore to the former Berlin Wall. It also offers one of the first traffic lights in Europe (1924), two huge malls, and the Sony Centre nearby. In the Christmas season, there is a huge market – or actually, two because they are separated. You can reach the markets really easily by trains and the subway (the station name is also called Potsdamer Platz).
Berlin offers more than 50 Christmas markets, including one located at Charlottenburg Palace. Charlottenburg is one of the most expensive districts in Berlin, and in my opinion, also one of the fancier ones. This Christmas market in front of the castle can be reached with a ten-minute walk from the train station ‘Westend’, or alternatively, there is a bus stop right in front of it.
Berlin has over 50 Christmas markets, among them the Scandinavian Lucia Christmas Market featuring Glögg, ‘Feuerzangenbowle’ and the ‘Open-Air-Coat-Heater’.