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3 days in Berlin

A complete 3-day Berlin itinerary with 20 places, arranged so each stop is open when you arrive and the walking between them stays sensible.

Days
3
Places
20
Time in transit
440 min
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Why the stops are in this order

Most itineraries you find online are a list of places worth seeing, left in whatever order the writer thought of them. That is the part that falls apart on the day: you arrive somewhere at 17:40 and it closed at 17:00, or you cross the city twice because two neighbouring sights sat on different days.

This plan is sequenced instead of listed. Every stop below is checked against the opening hours of the place itself, and the gaps between them are real door-to-door travel times, not straight-line distance on a map. The visiting windows shown are what is actually achievable in a day.

Across all 3 days this route spends 440 minutes in transit — that number is the point. Reordering the same 20 places carelessly can easily double it, and that time comes straight out of your trip.

Day 1

09:00–21:30 · 8 places · 143 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 23 min by public transport

    East Side Gallery

    09:23–10:23 1 hr

  3. 37 min by public transport

    Reichstag Building

    11:00–12:15 1 hr 15 min

  4. 15 min walk

    Nante-Eck | Restaurant Berlin Mitte

    12:30–13:00 30 min

  5. 10 min walk

    Brandenburg Gate

    13:10–13:40 30 min

  6. 16 min by public transport

    Victory Column

    13:56–15:26 1 hr 30 min

  7. 22 min by public transport

    German Historical Museum

    15:48–17:48 2 hr

  8. 6 min walk

    Berlin Cathedral

    17:54–19:54 2 hr

  9. 14 min by public transport

    Reichstagskuppel

    20:08–21:23 1 hr 15 min

Day 2

09:00–21:30 · 7 places · 103 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 12 min by public transport

    DDR Museum

    09:12–10:42 1 hr 30 min

  3. 7 min walk

    Neues Museum

    10:49–12:49 2 hr

  4. 8 min walk

    Restauration 1840

    12:57–13:27 30 min

  5. 41 min walk

    Jewish Museum Berlin

    14:08–16:08 2 hr

  6. 17 min by public transport

    Humboldt Forum

    16:25–18:25 2 hr

  7. 12 min walk

    Berlin TV Tower

    18:37–19:52 1 hr 15 min

  8. 6 min walk

    Alexanderplatz

    19:58–21:28 1 hr 30 min

Day 3

09:00–20:00 · 5 places · 194 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 4 min by public transport

    Potsdamer Platz

    09:04–09:49 45 min

  3. 15 min by public transport

    Pergamon Museum

    10:04–12:04 2 hr

  4. 17 min walk

    Zur Gerichtslaube

    12:21–12:51 30 min

  5. 113 min walk

    Charlottenburg Palace

    14:44–16:44 2 hr

  6. 45 min by public transport

    Topography of Terror

    17:29–18:59 1 hr 30 min

Make it your trip

The schedule above is built for a generic 3-day visit. Open it in the planner to set your own dates — the timings recalculate against the opening hours for those specific days, which matters more than it sounds when a museum closes on Mondays. You can drag stops between days, swap anything you are not interested in, and the rest of the day re-sequences around the change.

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