City Backpackers

Top choice in Stockholm


The closest hostel to Centralstationen has clean rooms, friendly staff, free bike hire and excellent facilities, including sauna, laundry and kitchen (with a free stash of pasta). En suite private rooms are also available. Bonus for female guests: there are four- and eight-bed female-only dorms if you prefer, and you can borrow a hairdryer from reception.

The hostel also has six-bed apartments (from 1800kr) for rent, with bunks, their own kitchens and bathrooms – a great option if you're in town for a while and want to cook your own meals.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Stockholm attractions

1. Strindbergsmuseet

0.19 MILES

The small but evocative Strindbergsmuseet in the Blue Tower is the well-preserved apartment where writer and painter August Strindberg (1849–1912) spent…

2. Sergels Torg

0.42 MILES

Stockholm's living room, this circular square (which was undergoing major repairs on our last visit, but was still accessible to foot traffic) is a little…

3. Bonniers Konsthall

0.43 MILES

This ambitious gallery keeps culture fiends busy with a fresh dose of international contemporary art, as well as a reading room, a fab cafe and a busy…

4. Kulturhuset

0.44 MILES

This architecturally divisive building, opened in 1974, is an arts hub, with a couple of galleries and workshops, a cinema, three restaurants, and…

5. Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum

0.45 MILES

This ultramodern building houses an art gallery with interesting temporary exhibitions (recently a collection of August Strindberg's paintings, borrowed…

6. Stadsbiblioteket

0.52 MILES

The main city library is just north of the city centre. Designed by architect Erik Gunnar Asplund and sporting a curvaceous, technicolor reading room, it…

7. Dansmuseet

0.57 MILES

Located on a heavily trafficked pedestrian shopping street and boasting a chic cafe (mains 165kr to 225kr), Dansmuseet (or the Rolf de Maré Dance Museum,…

8. Stadshuset

0.58 MILES

The imposing Stadshuset (City Hall) defines the Stockholm skyline, with its blocky silhouette and waterside perch. It looks stern and weighty from afar,…