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Guide to Stockholm’s Most Beautiful Subway Stations

Stockholm’s subway system is the longest art gallery in the world! 

This is a guide to help you see the most beautiful stations only paying for one subway ticket:

  • Start at KungsträdgĂĄrden (Blue Line) — and your jaw will drop immediately

This station is covered in exposed rock, ancient ruins, and greenery that creeps along the cave walls. It honestly feels like stepping into an ancient garden

Fun fact: when they were digging this station, workers discovered ruins from a 15th-century convent. Instead of removing them, they made it part of the art

  • Continue in the Blue Line and take 10 or 11 to RĂĄdhuset — and this one genuinely looks like a Viking grotto

The platforms here are raw, exposed bedrock painted in deep reds and blues

  • Continue in the Blue Line and take 11 to Solna Centrum

A political mural about the depopulation of rural Sweden in the 1970s. It stretches the entire length of the platform

  • Take the Blue Line 11 back to Fridhemsplan and then transfer to the Green Line towards Thorildsplan — the video game station

The walls are covered in giant pixel art sprites. Yes, we’re talking classic 8-bit video game characters, mosaiced across the entire platform

Why? Because the nearby school ran a student design project in the 1980s and this was the result

  • Take the Green Line to T-Centralen — Stockholm’s busiest station

Look up. The vaulted ceilings are painted with sweeping blue floral patterns that stretch across every surface

It’s simultaneously a transit hub and a work of art that millions of people rush past every single day

  • Transfer to the Red Line and take 14 towards Stadion — the rainbow station

Stadium station is a full sensory experience — bold painted figures of athletes in motion line the walls, done in vivid, almost cartoonish colors

One of Stockholm’s most famous stations — and you’ll immediately understand why

Have fun in Stockholm!

XO, Bobbi

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