Jugendherberge Hamburg

St Pauli & Reeperbahn


This busy and well-run youth hostel is a terrific deal, with tidy rooms (some of the dorms have harbour views!) and a handful of bars where you can hook up with other travellers.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby St Pauli & Reeperbahn attractions

1. Rickmer Rickmers

0.12 MILES

The 1886 three-masted steel windjammer Rickmer Rickmers is now a museum ship; from the restaurant on deck you have fine harbour views.

2. Tanzende Türme

0.25 MILES

Watching over the eastern gateway to St Pauli since 2011, the 'Dancing Towers' are a Hamburg icon. The two towers buck and weave by up to 3m from the…

3. Panoptikum

0.29 MILES

If wax museums are your thing, Hamburg has a decent version with more than 120 figures spread over four floors. Everyone gets a run, from Queen Elizabeth…

4. St Michaelis Kirche

0.3 MILES

‘Der Michel’, as it is affectionately called, is one of Hamburg’s most recognisable landmarks and northern Germany’s largest Protestant baroque church…

5. Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte

0.3 MILES

Hamburg's history museum has lots of kid-friendly features: it's chock-full of intricate ship models, has a large model train set (which runs on the hour)…

6. St Pauli Nachtmarkt

0.32 MILES

Wednesday late afternoon and evening is a terrific time to be in St Pauli when the weekly night market takes over Spielbudenplatz with food stalls, live…

7. Krameramtswohnungen

0.36 MILES

In an alley off Krayenkamp 10 are the Krameramtswohnungen, a row of tiny half-timbered houses from the 17th century that, for nearly 200 years, were…

8. Johannes Brahms Museum

0.37 MILES

Master composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was born in Hamburg. Although the house where he was born was destroyed in 1943, this fine 18th-century…