The Railways in Jungfrau region

It is an UNESCO world Heriatge site, situated at 3454 m above sea level. The Jungfraujoch is arguably the highest train station in all of Europe. Snow and ice are guaranteed all year round. The Sphinx Terrace with its fantastic view onto the Aletsch Glacier, the Ice Palace and the Walking Plateau for walks in eternal snow are attractions that are open year round.

The Route: You can try the round trip.Interlaken Ost - Lauterbrunnen - Kleine Scheidegg - Jungfraujoch - Grindelwald - Interlaken Ost.Check the timetables.

The Discounts :The Good Morning Ticket includes a reduction for the Kleine Scheidegg - Jungfraujoch section.

You pay the normal fares to Kleine Scheidegg. Holders of Half-fare Cards, Swiss Cards and Eurail, Swiss & Flexi Passes already enjoy a better reduction than the Good Morning Ticket and don't have to travel on the first two trains. Click for Fares for the Jungfrau region.

This trip by cogwheel railway takes us first to Kleine Scheidegg, altitude 2061 metres, at the foot of the Eiger North Wall. Then the trip continues through the Eiger tunnel to the stations at Eigerwand and Eismeer, with a five minute halt at each. If the weather is fine spectacular views from the large observation windows made in the solid Alpine rock.
On arrival at the Jungfraujoch, in the heart of a glacier one can proceed to see the superb views extending as far as the Vosges Mountains in France and the Black Forest in Germany. The Great Aletsch Glacier, at 22 km the longest ice-stream in the Alps, begins on the Jungfraujoch-Top of Europe.

The Trip To MatterHorn

We caught an early morning train for Zermatt from Geneva via Brig (you can come through visp if you do not take a Cisalpino train as the same does not stop at Visp). At Brig we changed over to the train operated by Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn,a narrow gauge train operating from a differant station a few minuteswalk away.

Zermatt is a small car free village at the foot of Matterhorn. Electric-cars and horse-drawn sleighs are the only allowed modes of transport .

The Matterhorn glacier paradise: (3,883 metres above sea level) is the highest point in Europe which is accessible by cableway.

How to reach: The yellow-green electric bus leaves the entrance of Zermatt railway station, takes us to the bottom station of Matterhorn glacier paradise (the cable car station which transports skiers nad tourists) or you could just walk down on seeing the signboard of Matterhorn Glacier Paradise enter and take the lift that takes you to the ticket counters. Buy the tickets from the Counter for the cable ride.

Fares: The Half fare to the top was around 42.5 Swiss Frans. Check the actual fare by clicking here (if you have the Half-Fare card/Swiss card/ Swiss Pass). With Junior card the children from 9-16 years are free when accompanied by one of the Parents. See the Swiss Travel System page for Details. The 8-seater Matterhorn-Express cable railway takes you up to the Furi station. From here the cableway takes you further up to Trockener Steg, where there is a restaurant. The highest cableway in Europe transports visitors up past giant crevasses to the Matterhorn glacier paradise and into a breathtaking mountain landscape of glaciers and permanent snow. The exciting tour from Zermatt to the Matterhorn glacier paradise takes about 40 minutes. It is one of the largest summer skiing areas with 365 days of ice. You get a different view of the MatterHorn ( than the more famous on ) when you are at the top than what you see from the bottom. We took the lift built into the rock to the sightseeing platform claimed to be the highest in Europe, it does offer a 360° panoramic view of the Swiss, Italian and French Alps with a total 38 four-thousand-metre peaks.