Hauptbahnhof & Bogenmeile

A convenient but mixed area: busy and fine by day, while the station surroundings and the Bogenmeile strip need extra care late at night. It is not the best place to stay, but easy to pass through safely.

The main train station and the Bogenmeile, a strip of bars and clubs built into the railway viaduct arches, make up this area. Most visitors arrive here. By day it is an ordinary busy transport hub with shops, a shopping center and the Rathausgalerien nearby. At night the Bogenmeile becomes Innsbruck's main nightlife strip, popular with students and young people, and also the place where drunk or aggressive people are most likely to turn up. The station area draws loitering groups late at night too, and police pay it extra attention. It is still safer than the stations in most large European cities, but use the lit, busy main streets, skip the underpasses and quiet corners after midnight, and take a tram, bus or night taxi to your accommodation. By day there is no concern, and it is fine for a quick meal or coffee.