How to get to Nijmegen
Depending on how you arrive in the Netherlands, this is how you can find the city of Nijmegen:
By air
If you come to the Netherlands by air, you can take a train from Schiphol Airport to Duivendrecht (there is a train every thirty minutes), where you change trains. From there you can take direct trains to Nijmegen Central Station every thirty minutes. The journey will take an hour and a half in total.
Train information is given on the yellow time tables located in station halls, on train platforms as well as on the internet: www.ns.nl.
It is also possible to arrange for a special shuttle service from Schiphol airport to Nijmegen and the hotel of your choice.
This service is provided by Willemsen-De Koning Airportservice. Reservations can be made through the Conference Agency of the Radboud University Nijmegen, telephone +31 24 361 59 68.
A ticket for this service will cost €45,-.
By train
If you are travelling by train (possibly preceded by a boat journey) from your own country, one of the following situations will apply:
- Coming from the south (from Paris, Brussels, etc.), you will have to change trains at the first station in the Netherlands, Roosendaal. You take the inter-city train to Zwolle, and get off in Nijmegen. There is a train every thirty minutes, and the journey will take about an hour and a half.
- Coming by boat from overseas (England, Ireland), you will probably arrive in Hoek van Holland. At Hoek van Holland you should take the train to Rotterdam Central Station, where you change trains for Breda. In Breda, board the train to Nijmegen. The train journey takes between 2 and a half and 3 hours.
- Coming from the southeast (Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, etc.), the train will take you through Germany along the Rhine until you arrive in Arnhem. Trains between Arnhem and Nijmegen run every 10-15 minutes. It only takes a quarter of an hour to get from Arnhem to Nijmegen.
- Coming from the east (northern Germany, Denmark, boat-trains from Scandinavia, Poland, the New Independent States, etc.), the trains' itinerary will include cities such as Hanover in Germany. Hengelo is the first station in the Netherlands. Do not get off there, but continue for half an hour until you get to Zutphen, where you change trains for Nijmegen. You should arrive in Nijmegen after approximately 40 minutes.
By car
- Coming from Amsterdam/Utrecht on the A2, take the A50, direction Nijmegen. At the intersection of the A50 and A15, follow signs 's-Hertogenbosch-Nijmegen (A50), the take the A73 to Nijmegen.
- Coming from Rotterdam, follow the A15 until the Nijmegen (A50) turn-off, then take the A73 to Nijmegen.
- From the south (Belgium), the Paris-Brussels-Antwerp-Breda motorway leads to Nijmegen (via Tilburg and 's-Hertogenbosch).
- Visitors coming from Scandinavia, Germany and Switzerland are advised to use the German motorways: A3/E35 (Oberhausen-Arnhem) and A57/E31 (Krefeld-Nijmegen).