🇩🇪🇸🇪Riding on Sweden's Amazing Sleeper Train from Berlin to Stockholm | Snälltåget
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- Snälltåget : Berlin Hbf→ Stockholm C
◆I'm a Japanese train enthusiast and stayed in Europe for about a month this summer.
This time I got to visit many European countries and ride their unique trains.
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Thanks for posting as usual but I'm back out to work (outdoor chores) because it is such a beautiful day here in northeastern California! I'll watch later today. Keep up the good work! Thanks.
kuga another great adventure
Nice to see you here in Europe ! Unfortunate those borders, Japan or USA heaven still faraway, except msst western european states there not uch ultra highspeed around. Hope you have enjoyed tour stay !
Hi, what camera do you use?
Thank you enjoyed a lot over 3 country's my first ever holiday abroad was Stockholm.thsnk you very enjoyable
I have been amazed by this series how Kuga can produce such insightful and generally positive videos on his experience in Europe, yet half the comments are complaining about the trains, "apologising" for x, or making inaccurate comparisons to other services. Crazy when that is not the tone Kuga uses at all! He just presents it as it is.
Anyway, some of the complaining I'm seeing:
1. On the cost, he bought the equivalent of 6 tickets to book out that compartment. That invalidates all comparisons on cost. People then saying "you paid so much and got that service?" Yes, if I bought 6 economy seats on an aeroplane, I don't suddenly get business class service, I just get 6 in flight meals. Sleeping on a row of economy seats on a plane also is not equivalent to a lie down business class bed, and the same is true here. A comparison with Japan would be buying 6 nobi nobi seats on the sunrise express and expecting the same service as a duluxe room.
2. Having said that, while couchettes are not the most comfortable to sit on, and most are really old now, as beds I think they are fine. I am currently on a trip across Europe and was on a couchette last night and it was better than several of the hotels I had been on (not a very high bar but they are really not as bad as they look. OBB's pillows suck though).
3. I even saw a comment on how the train was not sitting on the platform for any real time before leaving Berlin. (and obviously confused Kuga, understandable for the first time). I don't see how this is a "problem". The board said when the train was leaving, the train left then. These aren't rail tours or cruises, these are scheduled intercity services and Berlin HBF is not a small quiet station that can have a platform occupied by a train for longer than is needed.
4. And on the comments of the train being "old and dirty". No argument about it being old and like every travel enthusiast look forward to seeing what OBB do with the new Nightjet stock. Though I will caution that Caledonian Sleeper got new stock in the last few years and it has resulted in horror stories with its reliability, so appreciate as Kuga does at the end, that you at least get to your destination. I've yet to understand the "dirty" comments in most of these videos, the stations yes but the train interiors seem fine and the exteriors could be better but I'd rather the trains are actually out and doing a service than be polished museum pieces. The best one was the comment on the Eurostar video that the front of the train was dirty. Yes, that happens after you run at 300kph for 2.5 hours during summer. All I can say it that I look forward to visiting Japan, a country where the flies are considerate enough to not get in the way of the trains!
Again, good to see that Kuga is not his commentators and appreciates and shows us his different experiences (good and bad!).
@@Lokomowal If you think that is the only explanation of butthurt you need to see more of the internet :)
One thing people need to remember is that this is a couchette train, not a sleeper train, and Snälltåget's main target group are young people travelling together. So the quality onboard is never gonna be the same as on a Nightjet service.
These look like the old DB night trains. Does the train not also have the sleeper compartments? To be honest though I never minded to share these compartments but I do understand why some people wouldn't like to.
@@astorMorisson these ARE old DB-cars.
Well the service and accomondation aboard Snälltåget are better then on SJ (our other train company going this route) you would for example not have any thing to buy on a night-train with them, the prices are about the same though since there is no competition. But I would never use night train for this route it is to slow, by swapping train in Copenhagen & Hamburg and then using Danish and German trains the trip Berlin-Malmö takes less then 6 hours costing less then 100 €,
@@JimBackabo Well, he probably wanted to enjoy the night trip)) Anyway, the trip was too expensive.
@@JimBackabo Thats an awfully optimistic time estimate. All the fastest trains I can find from Copenhagen to Hamburg alone take 4 hours and 45 minutes, and are prone to overcrowding and delays. Plus with transfers and the fastest trains from Hamburg to Berlin taking almost 2 hours, and then it takes 7 hours and 15 minutes to travel between Copenhagen and Berlin on the fastest possible itinary. And of course you gotta add an additional half hour or more to that to get to Malmö, so its close to 8 hours to travel between the 2 anyways. The perfect amount of time to spend a night
I hope you enjoyed your short stay here - greetings from Sweden! 🇸🇪 🙂
Thank you as always for a nice video Kuga! I'm sorry your experience with Snälltåget wasn't better considering the steep price (rip wallet). If you come to Sweden again I recommend taking the X2000 between Stockholm-Gothenburg or Stockholm-Malmö. It's our fastest train and quite cozy in first class. Happy travels!
I like your video. It includes natural sights and sounds without the voice narration.
Very nice trip report! Also that bird at the station in Stockholm is a Jackdaw. Its a small corvid bird, so in the same family as crows. They're quite smart birds and often live in big colonies by train stations or residential areas together with rooks, another crowlike bird that's all black with a grey beak. You'll often find rooks and jackdaws together with hooded seagulls at transit hubs in scandinavia as they scour the area for leftover food by humans, or use human vehicles like buses and cars to crack open things like nuts.
Interesting.
If it's on it's own; it's a Crow, if there's more than one; it's a Rook.
@@lgparker4726 Look mate I'm the one who has read about birds. Besides a group of crows is called a murder. A murder of crows. The rook is a separate species from crows. Again easily recognizable with its light gray beak and black body, often living with jackdaws.
I grew up with them. And they are all corvids.
@@lgparker4726 So are you a crow or a rook ?
Another wonderful video - as usual! I felt sorry for you when you arrived in your room in the dark! Scandinavia is often dark, but trains should have an easy-to-find light-switch! And again, I felt SO sorry that you were given the same bread for supper as you got for breakfast! Denmark (particularly) is very famous for its pastries (and Danish people eat them for breakfast). I would have expected you to receive a pastry (or Danish bacon, which is also famous!) I love your sub-titles on screen and the beautiful way you phrase the words. Like all Japanese people, you are very kind - even when things are not quite right! Thanks again!
It was so dark! Didn't seem as clean or cozy as some of the other sleeper trains you've been on...Though the dining car looked elegant. It seems like it was a very interesting experience! Thanks, Kuga!
I think keeping the lighting outside the couchettes to the minimum requirement for safety is very considered for sleeping passengers.
@@williammckinney4090 I guess. It looks hard to navigate at night and not very inviting.
18:00 Malmö Central is mostly a through station with trains going in the Citytunnel under the city of Malmö. Night trains, some long distance and local trains still use the old station above ground. At 18:15 you see the beginning of the tunnel.
An other odd fact, while the rest of Swedens trains ride on the left side of double tracks, trains switch to right side tracks before Malmö so they are on same side when entering Denmark :)
Was about to mention the track switching from right to left just before the train enters Malmo C, when noticed your comment. 👍🏻
Simple answer - though odd as it doesn’t really mean the world to tragic, is that car lanes are right sided unlike the Uk for instance.
@@dennispedersen7460 Sweden had left-side road traffic until late 1960’s when they switched to the right (known as the h-dagen). Trains (and Stockholm’s Tunnelbana) however remained on the left.
I saw a lot of your videos during the pandemic so it's cool to suddenly see you've been filming in my hometown of Stockholm! If you ever come back you need to try out the ferry boats in the archipelago. Would definitely be your kind of thing.
Love your videos as always!
definitely visit Stockholm again this year, 'cause there will be electric ferrys in service
Hello Kuga - thank you for taking us along on your journey. I’m looking forward to your ride to Norway. But, I’m looking forward even more to returning with you to Japan! Such a beautiful country. 😊
Trains that run six-sleepers are just a different mode of transport. More of an adventure than a luxury.
But it is for everyone it cost from 39 Euro.
Nice video! When I saw your midnight snack I cried. I love seeing the bento boxes you choose. As for the train compared to the japanese ones it looked old, worn out and downright filthy. That window in your cabin.... ewh... I find the price you paid for something so basic exorbitant. As always you were kind and respectful. Imo the lunch looked acceptable at best, but I loved hearing your opinion. And I think we need more respectful, tidy tourists who clean after themselves instead of unruly loud drunkards. Thank you for the video.
He paid for 6 places but only used one, that's why it's so expensive
"I'm getting scared that this might not be the right platform" We have all had that feeling either we travelled by buss, train or plane. Atleast us normal people!
Great video! The bird isn't a Swedish crow, its' a western jackdaw (Coloeus monedula).
Thank you for showing the cute bird!! Please feature more birds from your travels 🙇
Another great video Kuga. The bird is a Jackdaw, part of the crow family but smaller. We get quite a lot here in the UK.
I am so happy and relieved that you got to experience Swedish railways in a positive way. It has made me want to go down to Germany with the Snälltåget in the other direction because I live near Stockholm. Thank you so much for a great video!
I'm really impressed that Snalltaget maintains a proper sit-down dining car with real meals and cutlery.
The meals are just heated but I get what you're saying :P There sure are more luxurious trains in the world.
As someone that lives in Denmark and went several times to Germany and Sweden, this video looks very familiar. I hope you slept well during your brief stay in Denmark :D
Thank you!
I am from Berlin but live in Sweden and I wondered what this would be like. Now I know.
I like that you say goodbyes to every train room, or bus that you ride, like a salutation for your safe journey. I kind of do that, in silence as my ode to the means that journeyed with me and made me feel safe as I reached my destination.
hello kuga looks like another great adventure your taking us on can't wait😃
Amazing tour my friend thanks for sharing and greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
Thanks for this!! Loved joining you on your journey, and your super sense of humour!!
Weird sitting in Stockholm watching this. Welcome to Stockholm. いらっしゃいませ。 The name of that bird is Kaja.
It's such a long journey and it's sooo worth it❤️totally enjoying this trip ❤️thanks to you Kuga vids very well served
Oh, we were actually able to see Kuga-san! Also, as someone who grew up in Northern Germany and always found it hard to travel to Sweden other than by plane or car, I am really excited to try out this sleeper train.
Well there are actually 2 trains now. There's the Snälltåget that runs from Berlin and stops at Hamburg Hbf close to midnight. But there's also another train run by SJ, the Swedish state railways, from Hamburg Altona direct to Stockholm, going through Denmark entirely at night, meaning it gets you to Stockholm much faster. The SJ train also has private sleeper compartments if you dont wanna be in a couchette.
@@drdewott9154 Soon enough the SJ train also goes as far as berlin, giving it an advantage to snälltåget when they don't run year round to Berlin
hello kuga looks like another great andventure your taking us on can't wait.😃
The Europeans can learn a lot about aesthetics and comfort from the Japanese.
It's not like they are not aware of it. Check out the ÖBB's new coaches coming next year. Other companies are struggling to justify upgrading their trains because sleeper trains popularity has been on the decline for a long time.
As always thanks for taking us along God Bless and be safe.
Здравей от България!
Много интересно видео!
Благодаря ти!
Entertaining series of videos, and you fit in just fine! Thank you 🙏
I really appreciate your sense of humour, Kuga..and your videos are first class...👍
What a journey! Love it! Incredible zest and full of life! Thanks a lot! : )
Thanks for another interesting shared trip. I was wishing you had a fancier room for that fare price. Hope you enjoy Norway!
Kuga, I like your European holiday-traintrips very much and this video is very nice. Fyi the restaurantcar is attached to the train in Malmo.
Enjoyed traveling with you. Thanks!
Very nice video, good pacing and audio integration. Thanks for the enjoyable overnight ride!
Thank you it was a joy to watch till the end,
Wonderful video! All 3 countries happen to be on my travel plans for 2023 and beyond. Thanks plenty!
Thanks for having us along for the ride!
Thanks for sharing all the trains and all the travel, always nice.
Fun to watch your travel. Cindy 👋
i love this long sleeper train rides, i come from Stuttgad but live now in norway and i take this trains evry year 2-3 times to visit family. It is so effortless, i even can play CS:GO with my friends on my laptop haha
Enjoyed, very much, thanks. D
Nice video Kuga - as always 🙂 and I hope you had a great time in Scandinavia. I know it is still pretty early when the train crosses the Great Belt, but it is for sure also a stunning sight. Knowing that you also like ferries: Next time you are in beautiful Stockholm, take the overnight ferry to either Helsinki or Turku/Åbo in Finland. The Stockholm archipelago is, in my eyes, the most scenic and beautiful maritime environment 😀 and the ferries from Viking Line/Silja Line are really top of the range when it comes to car ferries and not dedicated cruise ships. Cheers from Denmark. 🛳
Thanks Kuga. Your dry sense of humour is appreciated. Also appreciated is that you took this train so that I now know it’s a waste of money.
"I'm afraid this might be the wrong platform" - well nice to see you got to enjoy the usual charm of going by train in germany ;) surprisingly the train seemed to arrived at the right time, not an hour later!
The pattern of the seats is common in germany, seems like this part was a german train once, the overall design reminds me of older german trains. The seats seem to have seen many passengers...
Beeing waken up at 2am by the Border Police wouldn't be my ideal night, but I like that you enjoyed the trip nonetheless. Keep your positive attitude! :)
Very good guidelines of Germany to Sweden train journey. Best wishes to you.
You feel the history of the sheets. Well,I wonder about the pillow & blanket,did they feel fresh?🤔. That bread you had sure needed that distraction to taste "exceptional"😅. And having one's passport checked at 2am🥴. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I remember the Stockholm train station! I was there in 1989 to take the train to Oslo...it was very interesting! I wish I could have stayed in Stockholm to explore it. It's a beautiful city💖
Welcome to Scandinavia! As a Dane I would drive to Stockholm, but the train looks amazing too. I didn’t even knew we had such nice trains here! Haha. Looking forward to watching your Scandinavian videos!
I mean to be fair the Swedish rail network is one of the most liberalised in the world. There is a lot of competition between different operators, and Snälltåget operates in direct competition with the State railways SJ, and while their trains are not as fast as the X2000, they're competing by having a lower price and better ammenities onboard like a full restaurant. Snälltåget runs several departures per day from Malmö to Stockholm which is their flagship route, but they also operate the Berlin Night Express during the summer, and the Ski train from Malmö and several Danish cities to Austria during December. Ads for it have appeared across train stations in all of Denmark now.
Really enjoying your videos and sense of humour.
Aww you would fit in anywhere you go! Thank you for the awesome video
Oh I know that anxiety far far too well. That it isn't the right platform.. that it isn't the right time.. that I have the wrong ticket. .all of it!! Go you for doing this!
Domo arigarou for this video Kuga 🥰
Well that was a nice surprise to look at mr Kuga san att a modern Swedish nigth train! Hope you found the travel and Stockholm positivt! 🚈🚇🚉🕊🇸🇪
What a delightfully charming travel video. Thank you for sharing your expeexperience with us!
Thank you thank you thank you It’s wonderful to share your train experience with you….I live in London Ontario Canada and it’s always a treat to see another part of the world 😊😊😊
I enjoyed the video. Thank you. You are funny 😂
Thanks for posting, hopefully I get to visit those places someday
like always of all these train videos, showing so much the food!
That looked pretty bleak..."kinda unique", as you said.... love your videos, and really glad you share your very interesting trip. Thanks!
It’s beautiful video....... i love it. Quiet, breezing, bring the situation out there into my room. .....amazing.
I got to experience this train ride back when the train rode onto a ferry. It was a very strange experience being on a train that rolls onto a boat, and then being able to exit the train and hang out on the boat for the duration of the boat ride, then back down to the train when the boat starts getting close to shore. I believe this current route is temporary and that it will go through the Fehrman Belt Tunnel when it's completed.
Same here! It felt pretty wild to roll onto the ferry!
It was a really great experience.Thanks a lot Kuga's Travel
Thanks for the video. It was pleasantly relaxing. The end brought back so many good memories. I have been to Stockholm many times before the pandemic and am very familiar with Stockholm Central Station. I miss Stockholm. It is one of my favorite cities. So beautiful, especially (of course) in summer. There used to be a direct flight from Los Angeles where I live, to Stockholm. So it was very convenient.
Snälltåget = the nice train :D This video is indeed super nice and inspiring!
It must be hard, scary and exciting to travel through Europe. All the different languages is hard enough. But English seems to be a life saver! I guess now you have a much better appreciation for the bullet trains of Japan! You have undoubtedly the best trains and rail staff in the world in Japan. When you get home, you'll have to ride one just to shake off the trains of the EU!! Great video! 🙂
When I was 22 I got a rover ticket for an entire month and travelled all around Europe on the trains. People were so friendly, I never found the language barrier to be a big problem, there was always ways to communicate. However when you went behind the iron curtain and found the message 'do not lean out of the window' in five languages but not one of them being English, then you felt you were going into the unknown, LOL. But for Japanese it must be ten times harder. And yes those shinkansen's, they are the Rolls Royce of travel.
i wish we had bullet trains in Sweden but it's way to expensive for us :/
@@kristofferhellstrom you got a fast one that goes from Stockholm to Gothenburg, I know it's not like a shinkansen, but when I went on it in 1996 it was a pretty fine train.
@@malcolmfairman5494 Well, everything's relative. We'll never have as fast as Japan not only because it's expensive but also because our landscape. We would have to rebuild our entire railroad network.
@@kristofferhellstrom Still yours are better then the high speed trains we have here, on the normal ones that go 125 mph (Is that really high speed??) the leg room means you have your legs under your chin. But totally agree the Shinkansens are in a class of their own.
Just discovered your channel (and subscribed!)...this is my third 'trip'🚅 with you so far (Bernina to Italy and Swiss Grindewald/Lauterbrunnen) and they are all absolutely gorgeous...thank you...!!🙏👍
And love your sense of humor😅...keep up the great work👏...look forward to all your journeys...!!✌
21:15...You're fitting in perfect. Sweden is happy to have you as a guest. 🙂
Thank you for this Video. Didn´t know that connection still existed. subscribed
Liked your video, I have still to do this trip myself from hometown Stockholm to a great favourite - Berlin. And also it is always refreshing to see my home country and trains from someone else's foreign view, to learn what is maybe not att all as obvious as we may think!
Thanks for sharing 👍
This is a great connection, so cool to see you took it.
I hope you enjoyed your stay here in Sweden 😊 greetings from Gothenburg
Very nice trip report. 🌹🙏
Great video , thanks
Beautiful trip.never seen the sleeper train version before
The Japanese sleeper trains already looked comfortable, and the Swedish took what worked and applied to their trains 🚅😴
great video bro
I like your awareness of others and your courtesy!
I really enjoyed your video. 🫶🏼 Thanks for Sharing! 👍🏼💕
Greetings from Albania. 🇦🇱
Heh, you keep showing me memories from my youth!
Many years ago, my family did a big tour of Scandinavia by car (I would have preferred rail but not my parents). On the third day, we went from Germany to Sweden. In the evening, we found a camping place near Tranås. I well remember when, coming from Lake Vättern on a small road, we reached the main railway in a valley lit beautifully by the low Sun - and you included a clip just at that spot at 21:24 - 21:38!!!
such a simple but interestig sweet memories
such a simple but interestig sweet memories
💛💖beautiful video 💖💛
Thanks, I enjoyed your video. That $448 price scared me though but I understand you wanting to travel in comfort.
That 8 kilometer bridge ride from Denmark to Sweden was great fun.
Thanks for the trip
Beautiful video Kuga, thank you from your new Canadian fan! There is something about this video that makes me think of "Harry Potter", the train.....your hair and glasses LOL! Arigato gozaimasu! =^.^= Such a wonderful adventure! 💜
Hi, I'm from Los Angeles. I've been to Stockholm several times. It's one of my favorite cities. And because there is a direct train line from the airport to the city center, I have been to Stockholm's Central station many times. But since the pandemic I have stopped traveling for the time being. Love watching your videos but this one was especially nice for me because I got to see Stockholm Central station again. Thank you.
The trains in Japan seem much more modern and luxurious.
True, still trains in europe are real workhorses, being used by way more people on more tracks and for longer distances than any train could do on a small island like japan. That is like comparing a 1 mio. miles 40ton truck to handwashed, weekend used bentley. Even worse in this case is that sleeper trains are not very common in europe any more since it takes quite long to travel with them. So often those still in use are quite old and in a bad condition.
@@craddocraddoc Japan is not a 'small island'.. it is almost as long as Spain, France and Germany, end-to-end. I do agree though that sleeper trains in europe are not the greatest. But that's fueled by the fact that they became fairly unpopular and a lot of them got cancelled, so companies are not willing to invest more into it.
Yes I agreed with you
@@hfb_blaacc2591 Depends on where you are from. Greetings from the US!
Very interesting video. Good photography.
we enjoyed the trip with u ...thank u
amazing journey！i,d like try it in.summer with long time with sunshine.and keep watching, sounds excited!
Wow. This is so much nicer than the overnight I took back in 1965 from Paris to Berlin. Things sure have changed.
Nice overview of the inside of the train. Would like to have seen a little more scenery, but your clip was fascinating. More, more, more.
Hi Kuga- glad you had fun on that trip. You should try our Amtrak Zepyher Train that goes from Seattle to California (USA) and also the Empire Builder as well. Also Amtrak has a 27 day vacation package where you can take train trips around the country by Amtrak. :D Thanks for showing your Video. :D Hope all is well with you.
Excellent 👌
I'm so happy you visited my home town of Oslo! I wish I knew you were in Norway so I could've said hi to you 😂