Accessible via the Mönckebergstraße, Jungfernstieg and Stephansplatz U-Bahn stations. Hamburg's city center (also known as the downtown district or Central Hamburg) is located south of Alster Lake.

A queue of people forms in front of the travel center at the main station, after all flights at Hamburg Airport are cancelled due to strikes (Georg Wendt/dpa via AP) The surprise walkout, which ...

StadtRAD Hamburg is the city's bike-sharing program, with more 220 stations around the city. A day pass costs 15 euros (or about $16.75). Nowhere is German efficiency better exemplified than in ...