№17 — Visit the Vienna subway stations
What do you do on a Friday evening if your girlfriends are not in town and you are bored? Exactly! You visit all terminal stations of the local subway system. Why? Because you can! And because we did not find anything better to do. To make it slightly more interesting, we planned an activity at each station. Be prepared for mind-blowing facts about your favorite subway station!
We started our endeavor by taking the U4 all the way to Heiligenstadt. Since we both know the world’s longest house, the Karl Marx Hof, we walked up a few steps to the Hohe Warte Stadium. Not much to see at night, to be honest.
Afterwards we made our way to Floridsdorf. After a quick pit-stop at the local supermarket for performance-enhancing drugs (Almdudler), we visited Tora-San-Park. Apparently, this was supposed to be one of the Japanese gardens in Vienna but apart from a few bushes and a sign telling us that, we saw hardly anything.
We continued onwards by train to Leopoldau, where Chris had the great idea to walk all the way to Lower Austria. Said, done, we left the forsaken lands of Lord Michi to enter the heavenly country of the late Saint Erwin. After a twenty minute round-trip we were back on our way, this time to Seestadt. There is not much to see there on a Friday night, so it was time to play at the local playground — I did not get stuck in the slide! Since Chris outdid himself running earlier that day, he was extremely tired so we finished the day early at Karlsplatz, treating ourselves to a well-deserved Leberkäs-Semmel with this season’s leberkäse (Onion-Speck-Chili) from Leberkas Pepi.
The next day we started early and visited Simmering and the local cemetery. While not as nice as the Zentralfriedhof, it was nice and quiet. After that, the real highlight of all the stops was on schedule — Oberlaa. The trip all the way to the south rewarded us with great cakes from Konditorei Oberlaa — definitely worth checking out if you are going there to visit all the other new stations of the U1 as you surely want to!
At our next stop, Siebenhirten, there was not much to do in general, much less on a Saturday morning (which was a public holiday!). We wanted to grab so real Asian food at a counterfeit Panda Express but that was closed. So we had a look around and left again. we went on to Hütteldorf, visiting the new Rapid Wien soccer stadium.
We concluded our trip by visiting Ottakring. And what’s more like Ottakring than a 16er-Blech (Ottakringer from a can) with Asian noodles.
After seeing all terminal stations, we concluded that Oberlaa definitely is the best station of all, closely followed by Karlsplatz. Cake slightly beat Leberkas. The least interesting was Siebenhirten only closely losing out to Floridsdorf. If you take this handy guide, you can skip all the minor stations and go for the mind-blowing attractions of Oberlaa and Karlsplatz on your next Vienna trip. You are welcome!
