Location Stationsplein - in front of the JD shop

The Station Square is larger, longer, than the White Bulb Roof above it. And actually, the square itself is also a roof: namely the roof of the largest bicycle-parking garage in the world. The round glass staircases that pop out of the square lead you down into the garage. When you walk across the square from under the roof, with the station on the right and the shopping centre on the left, Dé Patatstraat, translated the snack street, which used to be there until 2018. That was the shopping traverse that seamlessly connected the station and the shopping complex. Many people still remember the smells of Bram Ladage's fries and Charlie Wok's snack wall. If you wanted to leave the station, you automatically ended up in Hoog Catharijne, where you almost risked getting lost in long corridors disappearing around corners. Until you finally ended up on the Vredenburg Square and you realized that after Hoog Catharijne there was still a lot of Utrecht to discover.

Now the station and the shopping centre, along with other new buildings, are connected via the large, open, new Stationsplein. You now experience that the city already starts here. And that you can walk in different directions to see what else Utrecht has to offer. Like when you walk towards Smakkelaarsveld and Moreelsepark.