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Accessible sightseeing in Berlin
Imposing buildings and local neighbourhoods. Experienced guides and accessibility-tested cruise boats. And attractive accessible tours from our visitBerlin partners – from travelling by bus urban-style to an old-fashioned steamer out on the water or the cutting-edge Segway.
Berlin is accessible – and so it is also wheelchair friendly and offers many tours for people who are hard of hearing or deaf or partially sighted or blind. There are, for example, a range of city tours on offer for visitors with disabilities. These include comfortable bus or coach tours, as well as tours for people in wheelchairs to explore individual neighbourhoods. For a different perspective on the city, take a boat tour with our partner tour boat companies. The boats have been checked for accessibility and are suitable for disabled visitors. Tours with cycle taxis are especially suitable for people with limited mobility or who are partially sighted or blind. The cycle taxi drivers not only provide the pedal power, but also recount stories about the city – offering a different take on Berlin. For an overall picture of the city, visit one of the scale touch models – or enjoy a birds-eye view from an accessible viewing platform high above the rooftops. So many good reasons to take a closer look at Berlin’s wealth of attractions!
What can you find on this page?
Take a different perspective on the city – with an accessible boat tour. The cruise boats and steamers of our partner tour boat companies offer tours every day in many different languages. Not only do the boats travel Berlin’s many waterways and lakes through the inner city, but also visit the surrounding countryside. All boat tours listed here by visitBerlin have been checked for accessibility under the Tourism for All scheme.
Stern und Kreisschiffahrt boat tours
The MS Moby Dick tour boat can take up to 12 guests in wheelchairs at the same time – including six in motorised wheelchairs. And what’s more, the service staff on all the tour boats in the Stern und Kreisschiffahrt fleet have considerable experience in looking after guests with disabilities.
Let others take the strain – and enjoy a relaxing tour or see the city through different eyes. That’s so easy on a city tour by bus or coach, or by velotaxi or cycle rickshaw.
In particular, for visitors with limited mobility the classic city tour by coach or bus offers a great way of exploring Berlin’s attractions in comfort. People who are hard of hearing benefit especially from bus and coach tours with audio guides, since they can adjust the volume to suit their individual needs.
The Berlin Treptow-Köpenick Tourism Association offers tours of local neighbourhoods for wheelchair users, people who are blind or visually impaired, and for visitors who are hard of hearing. An audio guide available on hire from the Tourist Info Centre at Schlossplatz in Köpenick takes you through the old town of Alt-Köpenick.
Explore Berlin with the Velotaxi cycle taxis – not just a great way to see the main sights, but perfect to discover neighbourhoods and quiet corners. On a Velotaxi tour, you’ll find drivers who love the city and can tell local stories and anecdotes about Berlin and the Berliners. Above all, though, for their guests who are blind or visually impaired, the drivers can vividly describe the city.
Climb aboard, lean back and listen ... Berlin Rikscha Tour is a visitBerlin partner and, among other services, offers the following themed city tours: The top sights from the TV Tower to the Reichstag parliament building, Through the government quarter to Potsdamer Platz, Where the Berlin Wall once stood, The green Tiergarten park, The bustling Hackesche Höfe courtyards, Kreuzberg – always worth a visit, City Lights, Berlin to the west, Charlottenburg Palace and Old Town.
Berlin Rikscha Tour offers a range of cycling tours and services for guests with disabilities able to join a regular guided city tour around Berlin or explore the city on their own on a hire bike.
The free accessBerlin app – currently including six tours to over 59 attractions and sights – is highly recommended for wheelchair users. Here, we are presenting two other tips specifically for people in wheelchairs.
Wheelchair holidays – Exploring the waterways around Berlin
The Rolly Tours catamarans are specially designed for wheelchairs users, ensuring you can enjoy a truly accessible holiday. Rolly Tours offers accompanied boat tours through Berlin’s waterways and lakes, as well as trips to the surrounding countryside. But whether you are interested in a short tour or chartering a boat for a week, you can look forward to the same comfort – wheelchair-friendly door widths, free access to the outside deck and the steering station as well as a wheelchair accessible toilet and shower.
Exploring Berlin’s neighbourhoods by wheelchair
Upstairs and downstairs? Not on this tour! Together with the non-profit organisation SOZIALHELDEN (Social Heroes), visitBerlin has used the online Wheelmap tool to compile a local tour of Kreuzberg, Neukölln and Mitte for wheelchair users. You can look forward to fresh air, delicious food, great views, art and culture and a colourful night life – making your wheelchair tour a top accessible neighbourhood experience!
The Berlin Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ABSV) can help you explore the city and give you a range of helpful tips for your visit.
Touch tours for Berlin and its surroundings
Berlin visitors with limited mobility can enjoy a Segway tour in a Segway Freee F2, an innovative and highly intuitive electric wheelchair. The tours, arranged by tour operator “Betreute Erholung und mehr Meer Leben GmbH”, take either groups or individuals on a sightseeing tour through Germany’s capital city.
For breathtaking views of Berlin, you can choose between a number of viewing points high above the city. Fans of panoramic views will enjoy browsing the following tips:
The Gardens of the World in Marzahn are ideal for a special taste of countryside in the city. The spreading gardens here have been awarded the Accessible Berlin icon. The complex provides step-free access to the individual gardens as well as wheelchair accessible toilets. Wheelchair users even have free admission.
Then just drop by one of the Berlin Tourist Info Centres! visitBerlin promotes accessible tourism and is happy to advise you.
You can find the respective opening hours here.