Jungfraujoch (Top of Europe)

The Jungfraujoch, The Highest Railway Station In Europe (3,454 M), Reached By The Jungfrau Railway Opened In 1912. Part Of The UNESCO Swiss Alps Jungfrau Aletsch World Heritage Site (2001). Visitors See The Aletsch Glacier, The Ice Palace, The Sphinx Observatory And The Plateau, In An All Weather High Alpine Setting. · Grindelwald, Bern

The Jungfraujoch is a high saddle at 3,454 m between the Monch and the Jungfrau in the Bernese Alps, and the station there is the highest railway station in Europe, sold as the Top of Europe. You reach it on the Jungfrau Railway, opened in 1912, which runs from Kleine Scheidegg through a tunnel inside the Eiger and the Monch. Visitors see the Sphinx Observatory terrace, the Ice Palace cut in the glacier, the Aletsch Glacier, the longest in the Alps, and a short snow walk on the Plateau. It is part of the UNESCO Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch World Heritage Site. The honest picture is a spectacular and very costly day trip. The journey takes about 2.5 hours each way from Interlaken, a return ticket costs roughly CHF 200 to 235 in summer, July and August bring queues, and on a cloudy day you see only white. Check the webcams, go early, walk slowly in the thin air and dress for cold. Allow a full day, take food from below, and note the last train down before you go up the mountain.

Saddle at 3,466 m between the Jungfrau and Monch, reached by the Jungfrau Railway from Kleine Scheidegg through a tunnel in the Eiger and Monch, Grindelwald, Bern, Switzerland

The station and the attractions are open daily all year, usually from early morning until late afternoon, with the first train in the morning and the LAST TRAIN down in the late afternoon. Times vary by season, and the Plateau and the Sphinx terrace can CLOSE in storms or high wind. Check the first and last departures when you buy.

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