Toruń of Nicholas Copernicus 

and gingerbread...

Practical information for tourists

It is advised to contact Tourist Information Centre before arrival to Toruń.

The centre offers publications for tourists, souvenirs, folders, maps and postcards, informs about attractive tourist attractions in the city, has a database of lodgings in Toruń and the rest of Poland available for visitors and gives information about artistic, sports and cultural events.

You can also look into a tourist guide-book, for example a book published by Pascal Publishing House "Polska na weekend” (Poland for a Weekend), which contains easily accessible useful information for travellers. The guide-book is available in Polish bookshops, and should also be available in tourist information centres and travel agencies. It contains topographical, tourist and practical information, and on margins you can find historical and cultural digressions, legends and stories. Toruń is described in "Ziemia Chełmińska (the Land of Chełmno)" section.

Tourist Information Centre 
Rynek Staromiejski 25 
87-100 Toruń 
tel: (+48 56) 621 09 31, fax: (+48 56) 621 09 30
it@it.torun.pl
Open:
Monday: 9-16, Tuesday-Friday 9-18,
Saturday: 9-16, Sunday (V-VIII) 9-13

How to get here

from Warsaw, road No. 10
from Gdańsk, road No. 1
from Szczecin, road No. 10
from Poznań, road No. 15 (via Gniezno)
from Wrocław, road No. 15 (via Trzebnica)
from Bydgoszcz, road No. 80 or No. 10

Railway transport

Main PKP (Polish National Railway) Station
Kujawska street no.1
information office: + 48 56 9436, 6213044

To get to city centre from the railway station take bus no. 22 or 27

Eastern Toruń Railway Station
Skarbka square no.4
To get to city centre from the railway station take bus no. 19

Toruń City Railway Station
18 Stycznia street no. 4
A walk to the city centre - 10 min.

Bus transport

PKS (Polish Bus Transport) Station
Dąbrowskiego street no. 26
information centre: +48 56 6555333
The station is located in city centre.

"Polski Express" and "Komfort Bus" Bus Lines Station
Mickiewicza street

"Polski Ekspress" tickets available in "Bilety” (Tickets) office in the Old Town Hall in Rynek Staromiejski (Old Town Market) street, in "Kolporter" kiosk at Aleja Solidarności ave. or from the driver. "Komfort Bus" tickets available in Piekary street no.42 in "Morvi" office or from the driver.

City Transport

MZK (Municipal Transport Company) ticket prices:

• normal tram and bus ticket – 1.90 PLN; reduced – 0.90 PLN,

Whole day and whole week tickets available in MZK kiosk in Rapackiego square or in MZK office in Sienkiewicza street no. 24/26.

A night-time ticket costs twice the price of a ticket valid in day-time.

City transport time-table (pl):

Monitored parking places in city centre

- Bulwar Filadelfijski (Philadelphia Boulevard) /next to the road bridge/
- św. Katarzyny square
- Wały gen. Wł. Sikorskiego street
- Dominikańska street
- 18 stycznia square

Public toilets in the city centre

Rynek Staromiejski (Old Town Market) no.1 /in the Town Hall/
Rynek Nowomiejski (New Town Market) /at the end of św. Jakuba street/
Plac Teatralny (Theatre Square) /next to the Ethnographical Museum/

Cashpoints in the city centre

BOS - Dominikańska street no.9
Kredyt Bank - Fosa Staromiejska street no. 3
WBK – Old Town Market – Town Hall
City Bank - Rynek Staromiejski (Old Town Market) no. 38
Euronet - Szeroka street no. 12/Lukas Bank
Euronet - Szeroka street no. 35
Millennium - Rynek Nowomiejski (New Town Market) no. 21
PKO BP - Szeroka street no. 12/16
PKO BP - Plac Rapackiego square no. 4
PKO BP - Królowej Jadwigi street no. 5
PEKAO S.A. - Wielkie Garbary street no. 11

Polish Post

Rynek Staromiejski (Old Town Market) no. 15, tel. + 48 056 6194359

Road Service

tel. + 48 056 9633, 9637

Shops with gingerbread from Toruń

• "Kopernik" Rynek Staromiejski (Old Town Market) no. 6

• Kopernika street no. 42

• Żeglarska street