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Soaking up the punky-funky all-feel of eastern Kreuzberg or northern Neukölln in
search of your favourite drinking den around Kottbusser Tor.
Foraging for unusual gifts for you and yours in the charming boutiques along
Bergmannstrasse .
Immersing yourself in multicultural bounty on a crawl through the bustling Türken-
markt .
Explore: Kreuzberg & Neukölln
Kreuzberg gets its street cred from being delightfully edgy, bipolar, wacky and, most of all,
unpredictable. While the western half, around Bergmannstrasse, has an upmarket, genteel
air, eastern Kreuzberg (still nicknamed SO36, after its prereunification postal code) is a mul-
ticultural mosaic, a bubbly hodgepodge of tousled students, aspiring creatives, shisha -
smoking Turks and Arabs, and international life artists. Spend a day tracking down fabulous
street art, scarfing a shawarma , browsing vintage stores and hanging by the canal, then find
out why Kreuzberg is also known as a night-crawler's paradise.
All that hipness has spilled across the Landwehrkanal to the northern part of Neukölln,
sometimes also called Kreuzkölln. Once making headlines for its crime and poor schools,
the district has catapulted from ghetto-gritty to funkytown-hip in no time. At least partly
thanks to an influx of young, creative neo-Berliners (including many from Italy, Spain and
Australia), the quarter sees trash-trendy bars, performance spaces and galleries coming on-
line almost daily. If you need a break from all that hipness, head over to the vast Tempel-
hofer Park, an urban playground on the airfield of Tempelhof Airport.
Local Life
Bar-hopping Kreuzberg and Kreuzkölln deliver some of the city's most happening night-
time action, especially around Kottbusser Tor, along Schlesische Strasse and on Weser-
strasse.
Shopping Delightfully devoid of high-street chains, shopping in Kreuzberg is all about
individual style. Join locals in putting together that inimitable outfit from vintage shops,
local designers and streetwear boutiques.
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