• Search your connection using the Online Timetables
• Tickets for short distance connections can easily be bought using a slot machine. Enter the 4-digit code of your target destination. The default ticket is for one adult person. Just press the green button and insert the required amount of money. Surplus money will be returned.
• In the Central Stations you can get information and buy tickets at a counter of the "DB ReiseZentrum"
• In the Central Stations you need to know on which track your train will leave. Look out for the large yellow posters with the Departure Information. In Düsseldorf there are separate posters for long distance trains ("ohne S-Bahn") and for the local trains ("S-Bahn")

A personal recommendation:
If you do not have a direct flight connection to Düsseldorf or Cologne, I recommend to fly to Frankfurt and take the train via Cologne to Aachen.
Enjoy a pleasant travel at 300 km/h max. in a brand new high-speed train between Frankfurt Airport and Cologne. If you have a little spare time, take the opportunity for a short break in Cologne: The famous cathedral is right beside the central station, it is only a short walk to the bank of the Rhine river and there are plenty of shopping opportunities.

There is some more travel information available on the CCC web site (German).
Those traveling by car may want to look at another detailled map.

The first three hotels in the list are close to the Aachen central station (Hauptbahnhof). As the Computing Center is close to the station Aachen-West, it is very convenient to take a train. It is only a one stop ride and takes about 6 minutes. Walking distance would be 45 minutes approximately. In the morning the trains leave the central station at 8:02 (platform 1), 8:14 (platform 2 part a/b), 8:32 (1), 8:38 (3 a/b), 9:02 (platform 1), 9:14 (2 a/b), 9:32 (1), 9:38 (3 a/b), and so on. In the afternoon the trains back leave at the Aachen-West station at 10, 25, 37, 55 minutes after the full hour (always on platform 1).
You may as well take the bus number 33 from the stop Normaluhr at the upper end of the Theaterstraße (close to the hotel IBIS Normaluhr), which runs 4 times an hour and takes about 15 minutes to the Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße .

The last two hotels are in the city center. It will take about 25 minutes to walk to the Center. Alternatively you can take the bus number 33, which runs every 15 minutes and takes 8 minutes between Aachen Bushof H.14 and Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße. The central bus station (Bushof) at the Peterstraße is marked with a H in the above map. The H.14 stop is outside of the main building of the bus station in the Kurhausstraße. The busses leave at 11, 26, 41, 56 minutes after the full hour. Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße is the next stop after the bus passes through the tunnel beneath the Aachen-West train station. Going back to the city center the busses leave at the Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße at 8, 23, 38, 53 minutes after the full hour.

You can always purchase tickets in the bus. Please contact the bus driver.
Purchase the train tickets in a slot machine or at a counter of the Reisezentrum before you enter the train.

Find a detailed map of the area around the Computing Center here.

We plan to provide network access by WLAN (802.11 b), twisted pair (a few), and PCs running the Internet Explorer for E-mail access.

Follow this link to get to the Aachen tourist information website
Here you can find more information about the city of Aachen.
Currently there is a nice exhibition about Christian, Jewish and Muslim cultures around 800 AD called Ex oriente, which takes place in the historic Town Hall, the Cathedral treasury and part of the Cathedral. My recommendation: Start in theTown Hall und hire an AudioGuide.

The weather in Aachen is usually unpredictable. At that time of the year the temperatures will be most likely between 10 and 20 degrees Celsius. It might be very nice and sunny with colorful leaves, but sometimes it is also grey and rainy. So it is always a good idea to carry an umbrella. If you'll bring one, it might be sunny! Please be prepared to walk 10-15 minutes before and after lunch.

phone: +49-241-8024377 (mobile within the Center)
mobile: +49-175-2609782 (Sept. 21 - 26 only)
fax: +49-241-8022504
email: ewomp03@rz.rwth-aachen.de