WOW! Sweden has been keeping a beautiful secret, at least from us! In Stockholm, the Subway has over 100 INCREDIBLE Subway (Metro) Stations lined from floor to ceiling of incredible Art work! We've NEVER seen anything like this before! Is this the World's Most Beautiful Subway? We say a resounding YES! Starting in 1957 and the latest art installation in 2017, there is a variety of different art that everyone will appreciate and be shocked over! This video offers ONLY a small glimpse of 10 of those stations. We would love more information and hope that you will help us by answering our questions through the reaction & after. We know you will enjoy this, especially if you have never seen it before! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button.
It's so fun to see you two wonderful people discover the Subway of Stockholm - my hometown. Out of the 100 or so stations, most of them are in fact dull, boring and uninspiring. But, then there are those that you saw in the video, and they are fun, and kind of playful. My personal favourite is Kungsträdgården. Makes me feel good, lots of things to see, history appealing and in some parts a little dimmed lights that suits the art perfectly. Another favourite is the station Stadion, just at the arena where the summer Olympic games was held in 1912. Why a favourite? Well, there is this huge rainbow painting, and it attracts so many tourists. You often see them taking pictures or filming friends together, couples kissing in front of the rainbow, or dancing and whatever. So the station itself may not be so incredibly special, but all the people that come there make it so lively with lots of love in the air. So those are my favourites, Kungsträdgården ("Kings garden") and Stadion. A suggestion to you Natasha and Debbie is to look for videos of the Stockholm archipelago (if you haven't done that already). It is a hidden treasure, beautiful nature, thousands of islands, not exploited (is that the correct word?), but whit some restaurants and accommodation here and there on the islands. Thank you for all the fun videos about my lovely country, Sweden! 😀👍🏻
First of all, the pronunciation of the stations was not all to bad. A general tip is to learn what the letters åäö comes from. å is an a with a small o ontop (pronounce it something in between of a and o). ä is an a with a small e ontop (pronounce it something inbetween a and e). ö = o with a small e ontop (pronounce it something inbetween o and e). The reason why it is two dots instead of an e written ontop of ä and ö is because a sloppy written e is easily misunderstood as an o. Hence å and ä would look really similar. Btw. I really like the childish-like art at the Hallonbergen (raspberry mountain) station.
The interesting part is when you're a Swede (like me) and realise that the subways of the rest of the world DOESN'T look like this. Like, when you live in Stockholm (like me) then this just becomes normal to you and you don't really think about it, but when you see someone not from Sweden react to it you realise that oh, this is kinda special, isn't it?
It's even more striking when you've lived in Stockholm for decades and you visit a tube network somewhere else and find it's just concrete and advertising...
Yes. Personally I don't react so much to the lack of art in other metros I've been to, but that they have such a low ceiling and tiny platforms. I'm used to the space in our underground. (But not all stations have space here either. T- central is spacious at the blue line as shown in the video, but the other platforms look more like any platform in other countries (and get very crowded). My favorite is kungsträdgården. He didn't show all of it, the experience is better. There is always tourists taking pictures of those artifacts and if I remember correctly there's a fountain or something there too. The blue line at t- Centralen is beautiful, but I only ever notice it when there's not much people.
I have been to Stockholm and it is my favourite city that I have been to and as a Londoner I probably made myself unpopular with my fellow Londoners but it's the truth. It's not cheap there but nor is London. From Arlanda Airport to the City of Stockholm is what I dreamt what Sweden would be like and it never disappointed me. I have always wanted to go to Scandinavia and I got my chance to go to Sweden. Stockholm is an absolute beautiful city and the people are just so friendly and welcoming also there Police officers are brilliant in helping you find where you want to go in the city. I spent a fantastic time in Stockholm as I was there to see my team Chelsea fc play at the national stadium of Sweden and home to AIK Stockholm there Football club, who us Chelsea fans made friends with. I absolutely recommend anybody to visit Stockholm and Sweden, it's just so wonderful. Even though I am British my favourite band is Swedish and I have been a fan of there's for years, the band is called SABATON and they are the best in the world. 💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🏴⚽️⚽️💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
In Sweden, when doing public building projects, you have to use a percent (I think 1%) of the total budget on public art, and a subway is immensely expensive, so there's a *lot* of art in and attached to the Subway. Another fine example us the New Karolinska hospital (the most expensive hospital in the world) where about every nook and cranny is crammed with art.
I expected some mediocre street art sprayed on the walls, but this is beautiful! They kept the natural rock texture and colored it with paint and lights. The great artworks comes on top making it feel quite organic. The world should learn from Swedish subways!
Yeah most tunnels and subway stations in Stockholm is the granite bedrock with sprayed concrete on top. I think it's nice. It's an inherently unnatural thing our man made tunnels so leaving a little bit of the raw nature of nature left in them is kinda cool imo.
Guys i'd totally recommend Sweden, been there 12 times and loved it, absolutely beautiful country, lovely people and so much to see and do, oh and the food is good in Sweden too
I think the Swedish presenter does a very good job, he deserves some credit, as does all the artists who decorated the stations. Super nice episode, you deserve credit as well!
Another fun fact about the subway, they made the designs of the stations different so you could easily identify where you are without hearing the stations name being called out. The art also contributes to this.
I work with information/customer service in the Stockholm Subway since five year. It hasn't been one single day I haven't been asked about recommendations about where to go. Before that I hadn't really realised how much we in Stockholm take this for granted. Since then I try to at least sometimes look a bit more on the art when I'm going somewhere. Most of the time I don't really see it at all. After 20 years in this city I still discover new things. I hadn't seen about half the things from the T-centralen station despite me passing through there more or less daily. From the images I know exactly where it is and waited on the platform right infront of where that art is two-ish hours ago. I've just never looked up at the wall to see it.
I LOVE getting your reactions on this. I´ve ridden the subway in Stockholm for decades and I do see and appreciate the art. But seeing it through your eyes makes me see it in a different light. You did nail Rådhuset.
The Stockholm t-banen is FAB! Apart from all the stations which are great, ALL the individual cars on the system have their own boys or girls name! You can go hunting to try and find the car named after you!!!
Spent time working in Sweden. The old town (Gamla stan???) in Stockholm is beautiful in winter. What I remember about the subway is that inside the station the air +20C and outside at -20C. Your first breath of outside air is shocking
Well that was fascinatingly beautifully cooland a shock . I had not heard about this before. So glad you found this to react to , definitely going back for another look . Happy Birthday for Sunday Natasha 💝
@3:36 I live in Skarpnäck and use the metro everyday and the man in the video is wrong, it's a great station, got 17 benches made out of huge granite stone slabs, 17 because Skarpnäck is end station on line 17. The red rough walls and the shape of the tunnel makes me feel like I'm walking inside a gut, but dry and no stench of course, pretty trippy :D
Omg! I used to live in Stockholm in the beginning of 2008, took the subway to Thorildsplan every day and I had no idea they did this cool pixel art! I must have just missed it. Now I want to go back there! So thank you! 🙏🏾✨
I've lived in Sweden my whole life and worked in Stockholm for years. I've never thought about this EVER! I guess it's just so normal to us so we don't ever give it a thought. It's pretty awesome though. I think you would LOVE Sweden, you should come here!
I"m sorry to miss the live show because of classes, but it would have been fun live. I used to work summers in the Stockholm subway system and work the ticket booths, open and close stations and so on. I gre up i. Solna, so "the blue line" was my home for many years, and (of course) I personally think most of the stations on it are the prettiest.
Firstly, happy birthday, for Sunday, Natasha. I actually saw a video that mentioned the subway just the other day, and I immediately thought that you would both would cover it. I'm so glad that you did.
I am from Sweden and I am watching joyously at your "Swedish" show! I am enjoying the subway many times a week and its glory still blows my mind! Keep up the good work! Best regards/Per
Home sick and trying to find things to watch and came across your channel. Love the vibe and love the efforts with pronouncing the names, good work for trying!
I love that you checked our Subway ❤ our Subway is definitely more than just a Subway, you can literally just go down to watch the art and sculptures we got, definitely a must to if you visit Stockholm
If you like the pixel art, you will like the hidden art in the ventilation inside the subway under the Windows. Mostly small holes but if you look close you will find a few odd ones. My favorite is the pacmans or the play, stop, rec symbols. My children love looking for them.
Amazing, I want to visit now!!! Kungstradgarden was the highlight!!! Don’t get that in London, but our underground has an amazing history, most notably shelter in WW2. Thanks again for a great reaction and Happy Birthday Natasha for Sunday 🧁💐
@@bjornfagerstedt2341 I feel the same about USA, but much worse. They started this war by expanding NATO far beyond what they promised in 1989-91 and by infiltrating and arming Russia's immediate neigbour. Just imagine if Russia had tried the same with Kanada or Mexico... The border between Russia and Ukraine (meaing "the rand") has been changing all the time. The current was sloppily drawn by Lenin. He didn't care that a lot of ethnic Russians ended up on the wrong side of the border. This Russian speaking population has been treated very badly in one of the most corrupt states on earth. Especially so after USA started to intervene heavily in 2014. This is what Putin was concerned about. If Russia really wanted to actually take Ukraine (and continue conquering other countries), they would have been *much* more aggressive about it... would have bombed infrastructure all over the country, just like the USA usually does. And Russia would not have waited for USA & NATO to first arm Ukraine to their teeth...
Swede here, all the subway stations been a part of a bigger project... to add art to them (havent even looked more then 0:37) when i wrote this. will continue now xD
Now that was something different, love that Natasha had a go at the names, I did too. Enjoyed that very much. Is it someone's birthday on Sunday. Well done girlies ❤ you
Welcome to Stockholm to see our metro for yourself. My own favourite is Kungsträdgården. But there are many great ones. However, to usin Stockholm they are mainly our metro stations which make the city run every day. Every day almost a million people pass through these halls on their way to work, school etc.
I amused myself by imagining how you would pronounce the Swedish names in American. I said it out loud to myself just before you did. I got it right almost every time! Love your sense of humor.
Kungsträdgården is my favorite, but you should look up some more pictures of it. The whole thing is really neat. I also quite like the new citybanan station with the light installations, and solna strand with the cloud cubes. Hallonbergen is also pretty cute. I enjoy getting to show international friends the subway, but you do get tired of it or stop noticing it. I used to work by Thorildsplan and I can't stand that station now bc it is was so joyful everytime I tried to have a grumpy monday morning.
I wish they'd show more variation on the art and not just the underground stuff on the northern line. Sure, the statues on the outdoor stations can be quite bland, but they're still part of it. Högdalen station has huge flowers, which are nice. Each station has a different colour theme and texture so all you need to do is look out of the window and you'll know which station you're on. Not all stations have "art", they just have monochrome tiles (Skanstull is all yellow, Hallunda is lime green). It is the same as with everything you see daily, you get used to it. I doubt you find your livingroom amazing every day. Majority of us are just going to and from work and pay very little attention to anything. Grattis på födelsedagen Natasha! (happy birthday)
A tip for all who now wants to go to Sweden.. in may Sweden is hosting Eurovision Song Contest. It’s an amazing big party with people from over 50 countries coming together. This year it’s held in Malmö. So take a tour to Malmö have a blast with thousands of Eurovision fans and then go to Stockholm touring the subway stations and watch the cherry blossom trees in Kungsträdgården Roughly 90 of the 100 subway stations in Stockholm have been decorated with sculptures, mosaics, paintings, installations, carvings and reliefs by roughly 150 artists.. and of you really want to experience Sweden, travel to the north of Sweden experience the nature and a totally different type of landscape. Hope you all travel to Sweden and experience the subway art but then also travel to other parts of the country.
Yes, every single station has its own art, some better than others, obviously. This art frenzy even extends to some prominant Light Rail and Commuter Train stations.
I'm Swedish, and while I vaguely knew about the below-ground subway stations in Stockholm having different designs, I did not know that they were this... artsy. Especially T-centralen. I live pretty much in the middle between Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo, and for some reason I don't feel like visiting any of those cities. Gothenburg has most of the stuff I want anyway and it's much closer than the aforementioned capitals.
Happy birthday Natasha! ☺❤❤ And one great thing with the subway in Stockholm thanks to the art. Is that there are very little scribble and tags on the walls
I love Rinkeby station on the blue line. With terracotta walls and golden mosaics it’s hard to understand you’re visiting one of the more ‘rougher’ areas.
I really like how Natasha tries to pronounce some words and pretty well too! Just a fun detail. Keep it up! PS. Will Debbie try aswell? :> And is that subscribe bell sound from WoW's auction house? 🤓
Regarding the Gost Train: The first few cars were built in the US, then Swedish giant corporation ASEA more or less got a no-bid contract to build cars. The C1 (US) and C2-C3-C4 series was delivered when SL sid 'lets try something different' Hägglunds, mostly a builder of tracked military vehicles, got the contract to build one prototype trainset, the C5. This came built with polished, unpainted aluminum sides unlike all other stock with their green-painted steel. The C5 was not a success, ASEA got to deliver C6 and onwards, but the one lonely oddball set was kept around, being bounced around the different running depots and only used when necessary. Thus, the silver ghost train showed up in rush-hour traffic in totally unexpected places. Being use rarely, regular passengers weren't used to seeing it.
I think that he fast-forwarded the station “Rådhuset”. It is where I get off when I go to work (yes, I’m Swedish) and it has lots of more to offer than he showed in the video. Good work, btw. 👍
tis Ange these subways stations look so damned kewl love too that ur wearing ur red poppies early for the 11/11 ive also got the purple poppy ( for the animals lost in conflicts) an Aussie slouch hat and a combined silver fern n eucalyptus leaf
Happy BIRTHDAY Natasha! Your pronunciation wasn't awful! If you were asking for directions - it would probably work. I myself am from the third largest city in Sweden! Malmö and the rivalry between Malmö and Gothenburg (second largest) - united against the capitol Stockholm! BUT I still MUST admit that I DO LOVE the Stockholm Subway AND as a former public transport busdriver! I must say that Stockholms public transport is imnsho the best in Sweden! GOOD value, reliability, availability and the Subway system is beautiful!
I live like 10 miles from Stockholm. I have been in like 2 subway stations I didn't think this was unike for the world. Makes me want to take a look att them in person.
Might I suggest that you should take a look at the underground railway stations in MOSCOW. Personally I haven’t been to Russia to see them myself, but my parents went there on a 10 day break to Moscow and Saint Petersburg several years ago. They said that the escalators were the steepest and fastest they had ever seen.
That would be cool to learn about. About 10 years ago my Aunt and Uncle did the Vladivostok to St Petersberg rail trip (my idea of hell) but they said St Petersberg, Moscow had spectacular stations which doubled as nuke shelters, sad to think they might still be used for that thanks to the lunatic in the Kremlin. They stopped in a city called Irkutsk (might have spelled that wrong) in Siberia where Lenin apparently exiled all the artists, academics and architects so it's like a little Paris in the middle of no where with great galleries and buildings. The photos from there looked nice. Not in any rush to visit myself though.
The Moscow underground stations are absolutely beautiful. Each one different, but beautifully decorated and ornate. You can see some of them in Google images. Yes the escalators at some stations are extremely long - Park Pobedy is probably the one with the longest escalators. For just one example of the ornate ones, google 'Komsomolskaya'. Incidentally, for a station with actual museum art on the platforms, google 'Paris Metro - Louvre-Rivoli'. And for a whole station finished in steampunk decor see Ligne 11 Arts et Metiers station.
As a Swede I like our subway and I'm proud over how well planned it is and how it looks. However, I remeber from the school time during the cold war era that the subway in Moscow is very beatiful and with alot of art.
Stockholm has a lovely bottom, can't wait to see the rest. Enjoy your 25th birthday week Natasha! I wonder how many people miss their train and are late to work checking out all the cool stuff. Might be a good excuse for the boss for being late. For the 80s aesthetic check out the bands M83, The Midnight (Vampires is a song 80s as hell) and Gunship. All newish bands doing big 80s stuff with synths and sax solos.
Lol… I know now that you love and will see SOoooo much here in Sweden🇸🇪, and because of that I know you have to rent a house for a whole year.🌲🏡🌳🌱🌸🌻🌞🍂🍂🍁❄️☃️ Hugs and thanks for your reacting.🤗🇸🇪
On "The Silver Arrow": The silver train shown actually existed. It is an older model (the last of them were scrapped in the spring of 2024) that were originally green, then blue and white. Of course, there was nothing magic about the silver coloured train, I believe it was just a "test batch" of wagons covered in aluminium, if I remember correctly. Perhaps you noticed a train passing Solna station. That is the more contemporary model, mostly in blue and silver, though sometimes covered in advertisments. The wagons of these trains have names that have been submitted by the populace.
if you felt that 16 meter under street level was a lot, the newest station (Station Sofia) that soon will open is 100meter (328feet) below street level
As a Swede it was nice seeing your reaction, me being from the west side of sweden we don't have subway, mainly cause we don't have anything to hide ;) Anyhow Stockholm is a amazingly beautiful city well worth visiting. But the westcoast is of couse superior! Greetings from Sweden
We're happy to indulge our west-coast friends in their belief, because it assuages the disappointment they might otherwise feel at not living in Stockholm. 😉
The horrible thing is that I really don't even register anymore how cool this really is. There are a few of the mentions that after riding the Stockholm underground for my entire life, will still have me skipping a train or two just to look at some cool detail I've missed. I'm not really sure about the #1 though. It's the stop where I work and I've never really thought of it. Of course I've seen the pixel art but that's so "easy" to do. The organic, flowing in concrete tunnels in bright colours have much more of a wow factor for me. For me, maybe Kungsträdgården is a favourite as it's one you don't visit too often. It's a line end and the central station is usually closer to where you're going to so Kungsträdgården is missed out. But when you go there, it's really an amazing station. Numbed by repetition as I may be but yes, the Stockholm underground is really something else.
I live in Stockholm and yes, you DO get used to seeing this. It's nothing special since we see it everyday. But sure, when I go to Thorildsplan I can't help but smiling a little bit because of the Super Mario references. :-) And sure, Kungsträdgården is actually the one station where I actually often think about the art there, and that it is quite cool. But I think that might be because I don't visit any of those two stations very often.
The Silver Arrow was a subway train that existed. It was the replacement train when others broke down. That's why it often speeded past stations on the way to their replacement line, thus starting the rumour of a ghost train. The name came from a popular cowboy comic book with the same name that people associated with the silver colour of the wagons.
I went to RoyTech, the five regular solids are there, each associated with an element. The dodecahedron is further associated with light orbits around a black hole, illustrated in sculpture. Even further, the Mechanical Alphapet by Polhelm is right there, carved into one wall.
I haven't been to Stockholm lately, so I have almost forgotten what many of the different subway stations look like. I still remember T-Centralen, Gamla Stan and Slussen, but Slussen has been rebuilt since then. A film I really like is Beck - Spår i mörker (i.e. Beck - Tracks in Darkness) from 1997 about gruesome (but fictional) murders in the Stockholm Metro.
The thing about Kymligen and the train called Silverpilen (Silver Arrow) it is an actual like ghost story here in Stockholm that are even featured in a old book series about ghost stories for kids ^_^ It was really fun to see both of your reactions to all of these subway stations because I myself use them so often that I stopped paying attention to the artwork a while ago and it just kinda became a thing you took for granted when riding the subway, however I never get tired of the videogame themed one as its my absolute favorite even though I very rarely pass that station ^^
You got Rådhuset pretty well, but I'm also impressed at how close your first attempt at pronouncing Thorildsplan was! And yeah, Thorildsplan with its early 80s computer game aesthetics is definitely my favorite station. And should you get a day of sh*tty weather during a visit to Stockholm, you can definitely do worse than spending a few hours in the subway, just admiring and taking pictures.
WOW! Sweden has been keeping a beautiful secret, at least from us! In Stockholm, the Subway has over 100 INCREDIBLE Subway (Metro) Stations lined from floor to ceiling of incredible Art work! We've NEVER seen anything like this before! Is this the World's Most Beautiful Subway? We say a resounding YES! Starting in 1957 and the latest art installation in 2017, there is a variety of different art that everyone will appreciate and be shocked over! This video offers ONLY a small glimpse of 10 of those stations. We would love more information and hope that you will help us by answering our questions through the reaction & after. We know you will enjoy this, especially if you have never seen it before! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button.
I think the worlds most beautiful subway is in Moscow.
@@darkiee69Perhaps, but the fascist russians decided to attack Ukraine, and now no-one will visit russia in the next coming 50 years or so.
It's so fun to see you two wonderful people discover the Subway of Stockholm - my hometown. Out of the 100 or so stations, most of them are in fact dull, boring and uninspiring. But, then there are those that you saw in the video, and they are fun, and kind of playful. My personal favourite is Kungsträdgården. Makes me feel good, lots of things to see, history appealing and in some parts a little dimmed lights that suits the art perfectly. Another favourite is the station Stadion, just at the arena where the summer Olympic games was held in 1912. Why a favourite? Well, there is this huge rainbow painting, and it attracts so many tourists. You often see them taking pictures or filming friends together, couples kissing in front of the rainbow, or dancing and whatever. So the station itself may not be so incredibly special, but all the people that come there make it so lively with lots of love in the air. So those are my favourites, Kungsträdgården ("Kings garden") and Stadion.
A suggestion to you Natasha and Debbie is to look for videos of the Stockholm archipelago (if you haven't done that already). It is a hidden treasure, beautiful nature, thousands of islands, not exploited (is that the correct word?), but whit some restaurants and accommodation here and there on the islands.
Thank you for all the fun videos about my lovely country, Sweden! 😀👍🏻
First of all, the pronunciation of the stations was not all to bad. A general tip is to learn what the letters åäö comes from. å is an a with a small o ontop (pronounce it something in between of a and o). ä is an a with a small e ontop (pronounce it something inbetween a and e). ö = o with a small e ontop (pronounce it something inbetween o and e). The reason why it is two dots instead of an e written ontop of ä and ö is because a sloppy written e is easily misunderstood as an o. Hence å and ä would look really similar.
Btw.
I really like the childish-like art at the Hallonbergen (raspberry mountain) station.
Grattis i efterskott på din födelsedag....
The interesting part is when you're a Swede (like me) and realise that the subways of the rest of the world DOESN'T look like this. Like, when you live in Stockholm (like me) then this just becomes normal to you and you don't really think about it, but when you see someone not from Sweden react to it you realise that oh, this is kinda special, isn't it?
It's even more striking when you've lived in Stockholm for decades and you visit a tube network somewhere else and find it's just concrete and advertising...
Our older stations doesn't look like this either though.
Yes. Personally I don't react so much to the lack of art in other metros I've been to, but that they have such a low ceiling and tiny platforms. I'm used to the space in our underground. (But not all stations have space here either. T- central is spacious at the blue line as shown in the video, but the other platforms look more like any platform in other countries (and get very crowded).
My favorite is kungsträdgården. He didn't show all of it, the experience is better. There is always tourists taking pictures of those artifacts and if I remember correctly there's a fountain or something there too.
The blue line at t- Centralen is beautiful, but I only ever notice it when there's not much people.
I always get confused between a swede and a turnip...
@@davidlauder-qi5zv I feel like this is a funny joke that I'm not getting. Could you please explain?
I have been to Stockholm and it is my favourite city that I have been to and as a Londoner I probably made myself unpopular with my fellow Londoners but it's the truth. It's not cheap there but nor is London. From Arlanda Airport to the City of Stockholm is what I dreamt what Sweden would be like and it never disappointed me. I have always wanted to go to Scandinavia and I got my chance to
go to Sweden. Stockholm is an absolute beautiful city and the people are just so friendly and welcoming also there Police officers are brilliant in helping you find where you want to go in the city. I spent a fantastic time in Stockholm as I was there to see my team Chelsea fc play at the national stadium of Sweden and home to AIK Stockholm there Football club, who us Chelsea fans made friends with. I absolutely recommend anybody to visit Stockholm and Sweden, it's just so wonderful. Even though I am British my favourite band is Swedish and I have been a fan of there's for years, the band is called SABATON and they are the best in the world. 💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🏴⚽️⚽️💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
Yey, Sabaton! Love them.
Sabaton rocks!
Per, the base player of Sabaton, has a summer house in my village.
In Sweden, when doing public building projects, you have to use a percent (I think 1%) of the total budget on public art, and a subway is immensely expensive, so there's a *lot* of art in and attached to the Subway.
Another fine example us the New Karolinska hospital (the most expensive hospital in the world) where about every nook and cranny is crammed with art.
I expected some mediocre street art sprayed on the walls, but this is beautiful! They kept the natural rock texture and colored it with paint and lights. The great artworks comes on top making it feel quite organic.
The world should learn from Swedish subways!
Yeah most tunnels and subway stations in Stockholm is the granite bedrock with sprayed concrete on top. I think it's nice. It's an inherently unnatural thing our man made tunnels so leaving a little bit of the raw nature of nature left in them is kinda cool imo.
Guys i'd totally recommend Sweden, been there 12 times and loved it, absolutely beautiful country, lovely people and so much to see and do, oh and the food is good in Sweden too
I think the Swedish presenter does a very good job, he deserves some credit, as does all the artists who decorated the stations. Super nice episode, you deserve credit as well!
Another fun fact about the subway, they made the designs of the stations different so you could easily identify where you are without hearing the stations name being called out. The art also contributes to this.
You really pronounced "Rådhuset" very well! As a swede I´m impressed!
Same with "tekniska" - that was also very good.
But R in rådhuset is pronounced with the tounge in FRONT in the mouth.
Not in the back as all americans do.
I agree, it was good accept the å - which would obviously be difficult for anyone who weren't familiar with the letter.
7/10 gold stars. Very well done!
I work with information/customer service in the Stockholm Subway since five year. It hasn't been one single day I haven't been asked about recommendations about where to go. Before that I hadn't really realised how much we in Stockholm take this for granted. Since then I try to at least sometimes look a bit more on the art when I'm going somewhere. Most of the time I don't really see it at all. After 20 years in this city I still discover new things. I hadn't seen about half the things from the T-centralen station despite me passing through there more or less daily. From the images I know exactly where it is and waited on the platform right infront of where that art is two-ish hours ago. I've just never looked up at the wall to see it.
I LOVE getting your reactions on this. I´ve ridden the subway in Stockholm for decades and I do see and appreciate the art. But seeing it through your eyes makes me see it in a different light. You did nail Rådhuset.
The Stockholm t-banen is FAB! Apart from all the stations which are great, ALL the individual cars on the system have their own boys or girls name! You can go hunting to try and find the car named after you!!!
You should check out “all for Sweden “. A tvshow where Americans with Swedish decent compete for a reunion with their Swedish relatives.
Sweden has some out of this world subways,are so clean immaculate love the video.❤❤
This was so cool. I’ve never heard of subway art like this before. Thank you ladies for teaching me a little more about the world. Loved this episode.
I have heard about the Silver pilen /train of the dead all my life...❤from Stockholm 🇸🇪😁🇸🇪
I've been riding the "Blue Line" every single workday since 1981. And I still discover details that are new to me.
Spent time working in Sweden. The old town (Gamla stan???) in Stockholm is beautiful in winter. What I remember about the subway is that inside the station the air +20C and outside at -20C. Your first breath of outside air is shocking
Well that was fascinatingly beautifully cooland a shock . I had not heard about this before. So glad you found this to react to , definitely going back for another look . Happy Birthday for Sunday Natasha 💝
@3:36 I live in Skarpnäck and use the metro everyday and the man in the video is wrong, it's a great station, got 17 benches made out of huge granite stone slabs, 17 because Skarpnäck is end station on line 17. The red rough walls and the shape of the tunnel makes me feel like I'm walking inside a gut, but dry and no stench of course, pretty trippy :D
Sounds very interesting, looking forward to seeing it. Thank you for sharing.
If you go to Sweden, you must go to Bohuslän!! And the old fishing communities, e.g. Klädesholmen, Åstol, Gullholmen, Kärringön!❤❤❤
Brrr... Why?!
Watching this on your birthday. Happy birthday!
Omg! I used to live in Stockholm in the beginning of 2008, took the subway to Thorildsplan every day and I had no idea they did this cool pixel art! I must have just missed it. Now I want to go back there! So thank you! 🙏🏾✨
I've lived in Sweden my whole life and worked in Stockholm for years. I've never thought about this EVER! I guess it's just so normal to us so we don't ever give it a thought. It's pretty awesome though. I think you would LOVE Sweden, you should come here!
Wow that’s fabulous. I get the feeling the video probably doesn’t do it justice. I’d love to see it in real life. The totally amazing.
I"m sorry to miss the live show because of classes, but it would have been fun live. I used to work summers in the Stockholm subway system and work the ticket booths, open and close stations and so on. I gre up i. Solna, so "the blue line" was my home for many years, and (of course) I personally think most of the stations on it are the prettiest.
Hi girls well that was cool realy enjoyed it love each one happy birthday for sunday natasha have a good one love from the uk
Firstly, happy birthday, for Sunday, Natasha.
I actually saw a video that mentioned the subway just the other day, and I immediately thought that you would both would cover it. I'm so glad that you did.
A big swedish fan here :D Your pronunciation is not bad hehe i think its the placement of the letters, u did really good with the Å in rådhuset^^
I was one of the protestors who was in a tree with a police hanging on my foot 😊
You acctually say the words pretty good! Well Done!
I am from Sweden and I am watching joyously at your "Swedish" show! I am enjoying the subway many times a week and its glory still blows my mind! Keep up the good work! Best regards/Per
Hi ladies! I just found your channel and I must say it; you two are adorable!! Love from Sweden❤
Thank you so much!! We're glad you found us! 😊
I didn't know about this! How interesting and fun. Thanks for sharing
I wish the London Underground looked like this. I would use it more! Beautiful.
Home sick and trying to find things to watch and came across your channel.
Love the vibe and love the efforts with pronouncing the names, good work for trying!
Sorry I missed the live stream, but this was very interesting! I find all things Scandinavian interesting!
Loving the awsome Artwork going to work would be very pleasing to the eye ❤❤
I’m from Stockholmshem and travel in this world everyday, when the weather is boring the art is so nice.
You are very welcome to visit 🎉
Hello from Perth Western Australia 🇦🇺🌏. Quite fascinating thankyou for sharing. Happy birthday for Sunday Natasha 🎉🎆
🇸🇪Grattis på din födelsedag från Sverige! 😊🎂🥳🍾🥂🇸🇪
Amazing video... still cannot get over the fact you're talking Subways...😮❤
Love the reaction...and both so beautiful😅😘 Hey from Sweden
I love that you checked our Subway ❤ our Subway is definitely more than just a Subway, you can literally just go down to watch the art and sculptures we got, definitely a must to if you visit Stockholm
If you like the pixel art, you will like the hidden art in the ventilation inside the subway under the Windows. Mostly small holes but if you look close you will find a few odd ones. My favorite is the pacmans or the play, stop, rec symbols. My children love looking for them.
Amazing, I want to visit now!!! Kungstradgarden was the highlight!!! Don’t get that in London, but our underground has an amazing history, most notably shelter in WW2. Thanks again for a great reaction and Happy Birthday Natasha for Sunday 🧁💐
Hiya ladies, what a great video. Who ever knew these existed. I'd love see what other stations they have. Great find ❤
Russia has a subway that is also a work of art .
Moscow and St Petersburg has amazing art and buildings .
Yes, and unlike these 1970s stations in Stockholm, they are not postmodern.
Russia is in the past! Sorry!
True. But unlikely for us from the west to visit anytime soon. Because Russia unfortunately is an aggressive imperialistic power which is a pariah.
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If you dont want to travel watch on yt .
@@bjornfagerstedt2341 I feel the same about USA, but much worse. They started this war by expanding NATO far beyond what they promised in 1989-91 and by infiltrating and arming Russia's immediate neigbour. Just imagine if Russia had tried the same with Kanada or Mexico...
The border between Russia and Ukraine (meaing "the rand") has been changing all the time. The current was sloppily drawn by Lenin. He didn't care that a lot of ethnic Russians ended up on the wrong side of the border. This Russian speaking population has been treated very badly in one of the most corrupt states on earth. Especially so after USA started to intervene heavily in 2014.
This is what Putin was concerned about. If Russia really wanted to actually take Ukraine (and continue conquering other countries), they would have been *much* more aggressive about it... would have bombed infrastructure all over the country, just like the USA usually does. And Russia would not have waited for USA & NATO to first arm Ukraine to their teeth...
Swede here, all the subway stations been a part of a bigger project... to add art to them (havent even looked more then 0:37) when i wrote this. will continue now xD
Morning ladies .I went to Malmo to watch the Eurovision a few years ago... really lovely
Now that was something different, love that Natasha had a go at the names, I did too. Enjoyed that very much. Is it someone's birthday on Sunday. Well done girlies ❤ you
Welcome to Stockholm to see our metro for yourself. My own favourite is Kungsträdgården. But there are many great ones. However, to usin Stockholm they are mainly our metro stations which make the city run every day. Every day almost a million people pass through these halls on their way to work, school etc.
I amused myself by imagining how you would pronounce the Swedish names in American. I said it out loud to myself just before you did. I got it right almost every time!
Love your sense of humor.
That was amazing there was so cool subways i know i will be late for work if i lived there lol thank you .
P.s happy birthday for sunday natasha
I watch from Sweden. A month later, but still. Happy New Year! Gott Nytt År!
Edit: Yes, Rådhuset, you said it right.
Kungsträdgården is my favorite, but you should look up some more pictures of it. The whole thing is really neat. I also quite like the new citybanan station with the light installations, and solna strand with the cloud cubes. Hallonbergen is also pretty cute. I enjoy getting to show international friends the subway, but you do get tired of it or stop noticing it. I used to work by Thorildsplan and I can't stand that station now bc it is was so joyful everytime I tried to have a grumpy monday morning.
The å in Rådhuset was really close to how we say it :)
I wish they'd show more variation on the art and not just the underground stuff on the northern line. Sure, the statues on the outdoor stations can be quite bland, but they're still part of it. Högdalen station has huge flowers, which are nice. Each station has a different colour theme and texture so all you need to do is look out of the window and you'll know which station you're on. Not all stations have "art", they just have monochrome tiles (Skanstull is all yellow, Hallunda is lime green).
It is the same as with everything you see daily, you get used to it. I doubt you find your livingroom amazing every day. Majority of us are just going to and from work and pay very little attention to anything.
Grattis på födelsedagen Natasha! (happy birthday)
Rådhuset. Good on You!!! 👌🤗😍🇸🇪
A tip for all who now wants to go to Sweden.. in may Sweden is hosting Eurovision Song Contest. It’s an amazing big party with people from over 50 countries coming together. This year it’s held in Malmö. So take a tour to Malmö have a blast with thousands of Eurovision fans and then go to Stockholm touring the subway stations and watch the cherry blossom trees in Kungsträdgården Roughly 90 of the 100 subway stations in Stockholm have been decorated with sculptures, mosaics, paintings, installations, carvings and reliefs by roughly 150 artists.. and of you really want to experience Sweden, travel to the north of Sweden experience the nature and a totally different type of landscape. Hope you all travel to Sweden and experience the subway art but then also travel to other parts of the country.
Yes, every single station has its own art, some better than others, obviously.
This art frenzy even extends to some prominant Light Rail and Commuter Train stations.
I'm Swedish, and while I vaguely knew about the below-ground subway stations in Stockholm having different designs, I did not know that they were this... artsy. Especially T-centralen.
I live pretty much in the middle between Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo, and for some reason I don't feel like visiting any of those cities. Gothenburg has most of the stuff I want anyway and it's much closer than the aforementioned capitals.
Happy birthday Natasha! ☺❤❤ And one great thing with the subway in Stockholm thanks to the art. Is that there are very little scribble and tags on the walls
I love Rinkeby station on the blue line. With terracotta walls and golden mosaics it’s hard to understand you’re visiting one of the more ‘rougher’ areas.
I really like how Natasha tries to pronounce some words and pretty well too! Just a fun detail. Keep it up! PS. Will Debbie try aswell? :> And is that subscribe bell sound from WoW's auction house? 🤓
Regarding the Gost Train:
The first few cars were built in the US, then Swedish giant corporation ASEA more or less got a no-bid contract to build cars. The C1 (US) and C2-C3-C4 series was delivered when SL sid 'lets try something different'
Hägglunds, mostly a builder of tracked military vehicles, got the contract to build one prototype trainset, the C5. This came built with polished, unpainted aluminum sides unlike all other stock with their green-painted steel.
The C5 was not a success, ASEA got to deliver C6 and onwards, but the one lonely oddball set was kept around, being bounced around the different running depots and only used when necessary. Thus, the silver ghost train showed up in rush-hour traffic in totally unexpected places. Being use rarely, regular passengers weren't used to seeing it.
I think that he fast-forwarded the station “Rådhuset”. It is where I get off when I go to work (yes, I’m Swedish) and it has lots of more to offer than he showed in the video. Good work, btw. 👍
tis Ange
these subways stations look so damned kewl
love too that ur wearing ur red poppies early for the 11/11
ive also got the purple poppy ( for the animals lost in conflicts)
an Aussie slouch hat and a combined silver fern n eucalyptus leaf
Happy BIRTHDAY Natasha!
Your pronunciation wasn't awful! If you were asking for directions - it would probably work.
I myself am from the third largest city in Sweden! Malmö and the rivalry between Malmö and Gothenburg (second largest) - united against the capitol Stockholm!
BUT I still MUST admit that I DO LOVE the Stockholm Subway AND as a former public transport busdriver!
I must say that Stockholms public transport is imnsho the best in Sweden!
GOOD value, reliability, availability and the Subway system is beautiful!
I live like 10 miles from Stockholm. I have been in like 2 subway stations I didn't think this was unike for the world. Makes me want to take a look att them in person.
Might I suggest that you should take a look at the underground railway stations in MOSCOW. Personally I haven’t been to Russia to see them myself, but my parents went there on a 10 day break to Moscow and Saint Petersburg several years ago. They said that the escalators were the steepest and fastest they had ever seen.
That would be cool to learn about. About 10 years ago my Aunt and Uncle did the Vladivostok to St Petersberg rail trip (my idea of hell) but they said St Petersberg, Moscow had spectacular stations which doubled as nuke shelters, sad to think they might still be used for that thanks to the lunatic in the Kremlin. They stopped in a city called Irkutsk (might have spelled that wrong) in Siberia where Lenin apparently exiled all the artists, academics and architects so it's like a little Paris in the middle of no where with great galleries and buildings. The photos from there looked nice. Not in any rush to visit myself though.
You spelled white house wrong btw. 🇬🇧❤️🇷🇺👍
The Moscow underground stations are absolutely beautiful. Each one different, but beautifully decorated and ornate. You can see some of them in Google images. Yes the escalators at some stations are extremely long - Park Pobedy is probably the one with the longest escalators. For just one example of the ornate ones, google 'Komsomolskaya'.
Incidentally, for a station with actual museum art on the platforms, google 'Paris Metro - Louvre-Rivoli'. And for a whole station finished in steampunk decor see Ligne 11 Arts et Metiers station.
The Moscow underground stations are stunning. More of crystal chandeliers than modern art.
Myeah, but might be worth waiting with promoting Moscow until after the current unpleasantness. ;)
Amazing Ladies. Thank you.
As a Swede I like our subway and I'm proud over how well planned it is and how it looks. However, I remeber from the school time during the cold war era that the subway in Moscow is very beatiful and with alot of art.
basically all of our subway stations in Stockholm have some kind of artwork. even our motorway tunnels for cars are decorated with works of art.
Stockholm has a lovely bottom, can't wait to see the rest. Enjoy your 25th birthday week Natasha! I wonder how many people miss their train and are late to work checking out all the cool stuff. Might be a good excuse for the boss for being late.
For the 80s aesthetic check out the bands M83, The Midnight (Vampires is a song 80s as hell) and Gunship. All newish bands doing big 80s stuff with synths and sax solos.
Thank you so much!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow No worries at all, don't know if I can do the Sunday SHOW due my roster being puss this month but enjoy!
Lol… I know now that you love and will see SOoooo much here in Sweden🇸🇪, and because of that I know you have to rent a house for a whole year.🌲🏡🌳🌱🌸🌻🌞🍂🍂🍁❄️☃️
Hugs and thanks for your reacting.🤗🇸🇪
On "The Silver Arrow":
The silver train shown actually existed. It is an older model (the last of them
were scrapped in the spring of 2024) that were originally green, then blue and white.
Of course, there was nothing magic about the silver coloured train,
I believe it was just a "test batch" of wagons covered in aluminium, if I remember correctly.
Perhaps you noticed a train passing Solna station. That is the more contemporary model,
mostly in blue and silver, though sometimes covered in advertisments.
The wagons of these trains have names that have been submitted by the populace.
I think there is a tour for all the stations. Like Hallonbergen and fridhemsplan!
i live in stockholm, a swedish man on 42, love your show
from an american - you pronounced Rådhuset very well! :)
my mother drew 2 subwaystations Axelsberg and Örnsberg. drawn by Eila Meiling and im prowd as i can be ofc im Swedish
Remember the Penguins in Tensta! Lived there for about 15 years
if you felt that 16 meter under street level was a lot, the newest station (Station Sofia) that soon will open is 100meter (328feet) below street level
Wow!!!
RÅDHUSET...9/10 Natasha, 9/10... Very good !! LOL :D
As a Swede it was nice seeing your reaction, me being from the west side of sweden we don't have subway, mainly cause we don't have anything to hide ;) Anyhow Stockholm is a amazingly beautiful city well worth visiting. But the westcoast is of couse superior! Greetings from Sweden
We're happy to indulge our west-coast friends in their belief, because it assuages the disappointment they might otherwise feel at not living in Stockholm. 😉
@@awmperry Touché
The horrible thing is that I really don't even register anymore how cool this really is. There are a few of the mentions that after riding the Stockholm underground for my entire life, will still have me skipping a train or two just to look at some cool detail I've missed. I'm not really sure about the #1 though. It's the stop where I work and I've never really thought of it. Of course I've seen the pixel art but that's so "easy" to do. The organic, flowing in concrete tunnels in bright colours have much more of a wow factor for me. For me, maybe Kungsträdgården is a favourite as it's one you don't visit too often. It's a line end and the central station is usually closer to where you're going to so Kungsträdgården is missed out. But when you go there, it's really an amazing station. Numbed by repetition as I may be but yes, the Stockholm underground is really something else.
hello from sweden!
i would love to see a live reaktion video irl in sweden! :)
i found your chanel resently and i love it! thanks!
Bergshamra subway station with the rune stone ’Rökstenen’ text from the beginning 9th century (viking age) is the historically most interesting.
Welcome to Sweden 🇸🇪
I live in Stockholm and yes, you DO get used to seeing this. It's nothing special since we see it everyday. But sure, when I go to Thorildsplan I can't help but smiling a little bit because of the Super Mario references. :-) And sure, Kungsträdgården is actually the one station where I actually often think about the art there, and that it is quite cool. But I think that might be because I don't visit any of those two stations very often.
See, you said no one from Sweden was live in your chats... so I was there, just for you.
The Silver Arrow was a subway train that existed. It was the replacement train when others broke down. That's why it often speeded past stations on the way to their replacement line, thus starting the rumour of a ghost train. The name came from a popular cowboy comic book with the same name that people associated with the silver colour of the wagons.
I went to RoyTech, the five regular solids are there, each associated with an element. The dodecahedron is further associated with light orbits around a black hole, illustrated in sculpture. Even further, the Mechanical Alphapet by Polhelm is right there, carved into one wall.
Great Chanel! ❤ from
Sweden!
that gave me chills, Kymlinge
Stockholm also has about a hundred museums as well.
I haven't been to Stockholm lately, so I have almost forgotten what many of the different subway stations look like. I still remember T-Centralen, Gamla Stan and Slussen, but Slussen has been rebuilt since then. A film I really like is Beck - Spår i mörker (i.e. Beck - Tracks in Darkness) from 1997 about gruesome (but fictional) murders in the Stockholm Metro.
The thing about Kymligen and the train called Silverpilen (Silver Arrow) it is an actual like ghost story here in Stockholm that are even featured in a old book series about ghost stories for kids ^_^
It was really fun to see both of your reactions to all of these subway stations because I myself use them so often that I stopped paying attention to the artwork a while ago and it just kinda became a thing you took for granted when riding the subway, however I never get tired of the videogame themed one as its my absolute favorite even though I very rarely pass that station ^^
You got Rådhuset pretty well, but I'm also impressed at how close your first attempt at pronouncing Thorildsplan was! And yeah, Thorildsplan with its early 80s computer game aesthetics is definitely my favorite station. And should you get a day of sh*tty weather during a visit to Stockholm, you can definitely do worse than spending a few hours in the subway, just admiring and taking pictures.