Holiday in Jungfraujoch

About Jungfraujoch

The Jungfraujoch — at 3,454 meters the "Top of Europe" — is the highest railway-accessible point in Europe and a place that fascinatingly blurs the line between tourism and alpine adventure. The train ride there is an experience in itself: From the charming Interlaken, it goes via Grindelwald or Wengen first to Kleine Scheidegg, where the famous north face of the Eiger seems within reach, and then onto the Jungfrau Railway — a cogwheel train that has been winding its way through the interior of the Eiger since 1912. Upon arriving at the Jungfraujoch, one enters a different world: The Aletsch Glacier, the longest glacier in the Alps and a UNESCO World Heritage site, stretches as a massive ice stream 23 kilometers down the valley. The Sphinx viewing platform offers a view, on clear days, that stretches from the Vosges to the Black Forest — a panorama that encompasses four countries. In the Ice Palace, a tunnel system carved into the glacier, ice sculptures sparkle in blue light, and the plateau offers snow fun in both summer and winter. However, the true magic of the Jungfraujoch lies in the hike that begins here: The path over the Aletsch Glacier to the Concordia Place, where three glacier arms converge, leads through a high mountain world of breathtaking silence and beauty. Glacier crevasses in unreal blue, névé fields sparkling in the sun, and the four-thousanders Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau as an ever-present backdrop — this is Swiss alpine landscape in its most absolute form. The Jungfrau region offers much more than just the summit station: The valley around Grindelwald, Mürren, and Lauterbrunnen (the "Valley of 72 Waterfalls") is a hiking paradise with over 300 kilometers of marked trails, and the view from Schilthorn of the Bernese Alps is at least as spectacular as from the Jungfraujoch — just less crowded.