Pictures courtesy of Bonsai-Museum Düsseldorf
The open-air museum in Düsseldorf explains everything worth knowing about bonsai on an area of approx. 1500 square meters in the form of an educational trail.
In this way, bonsai is introduced not only to connoisseurs but also to interested laymen. There are more than 120 trees on display, some over 100 years old, in classic Asian or modern European designs.
Important notes
Open-air museum, please dress according to the weather. Directions (from IBD Hotel)
Travel time is about 75 minutes ... including some waiting time for the trains you will take since being late is no option.
- Leave the Maritim Hotel through the main entrance on the ground floor next to the reception
- Turn left and walk past the staircase tower of "Parking 8" towards the airport building and enter it
- You are now on the arrivals level - follow the signs for "S-Bahn S11/Local trains"
- Just in front of McDonald’s, take the moving walkway down to the station
- Take the local train S11 in direction of Düsseldorf central Station "Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof (Hbf)" up to ";D-Hamm S" (9 stops)
The S11 to "Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof (Hbf)" departs from platforms 10 and 11 - Leave the station to the left of the riding direction and walk along "Am Kuhtor" kind of back to where you came from for 150m
- Turn right onto "Hammer Dorfstraße"
- After some 250m when the street forks keep left to stay on "Hammer Dorfstraße" for another 350m
- That street makes a soft left and then a soft right bend - and after that when "Stippelburggasse" is on the left, you see an open area on the right hand side.
- Turn right just before that open space to then reach the destination on the right-hand side.
Directions (from Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof)
Travel time is approx. 40 minutes
- Take the S11 in the direction "Bergisch Gladbach" up to "D-Hamm S"
- So, proceed from there as detailed above
See
Directions and Times for general information on directions.
