Leiden is a beautiful regional city located between Amsterdam and The Hague. It is known that this city is home to the oldest university in Netherlands. 

National Museum of Ethnology

This museum houses over 200 thousands of precious exhibits on centuries-old Ethnology from Asia, Africa, South and North America, Oceania, and Indonesia. 

Fortress in Leiden

Fortress in Leiden (NL: Burcht van Leiden) lies on a hill located in the city center 15 minutes walk away from Leiden central station. It was started to build at the beginning of 9 century and completed after 300 years. From the top of the fortress with its 6 meters hight, you can have a panoramic view of Leiden. 

Japan museum SieboldHuis

Have you ever heard about Siebold? He was a German doctor whom Dutch let in charge of staying in Japan to collect information. 

In this museum rebuilt from where Siebold used to live, precious Japanese historical stuff he brought from Japan are on display. 

National Museum of Antiquities

This museum houses full of antiquities from all over the world such as Egypt, Greece and Rome. 

The birthplace of Rembrandt

Rembrandt, one of well-known artist, was born in Leiden, 1606. He had lived there until he moved to Amsterdam in 1631. Although the house where Rembrandt used to live doesn’t exist, still there is the trace of it as Rembrandtpark. Next to this park, there is a plate showing the birthplace of Rembrandt, and his statue of his early days facing canvas. 

Hortus Botanicus 

Hortus Botanicus is one of the most oldest botanical garden in the world. The most remarkable part of it is tropical plants. When you are there, you will feel as if you were in a real jungle. 

Here is the end of this list. I hope you find it helpful. Enjoy your trip in Leiden! 

Delft is a little charming city located between The Hague and Rotterdam. This city is famous for “Delft blue” which is a kind of pottery developed in Delft dating back to 17 century. It is also known as the birthplace of Johannes Vermeer. Although Delft has enough of attraction, this city itself still has an old city view of mediaeval time and prefect for waking around. 

Royal Delft

This is a museum all about “Delft blue” with a factory in practice. Their potteries are on display along with their history. Among them, there is the “Night Watch” made of pottery.

In the end of your visit, you can have a look of how “Delft blue” is made in the specific factory. There, professional workers engage themselves in producing its delicate pottery by hand. There is also a cafe inside the museum where you can enjoy some coffee served with a real “Delft blue”. 

Blue Heart

Blue Heart (NL: Blauwe Hart) is in the city center right next to New church. Its blue comes from the image of “Delft blue”, which is the symbol of this city. 

Old Church

Take a closer look! This old church (NL:Oude Kerk) is apparently leaning. In the course of construction, it turned out that the ground isn’t strong enough. However, construction was carried on and this church became as it looks like now.

Vermeer Centrum Delft

Johannes Vermeer, who is one of the most well known artist in the world, is from Delft. In this museum, replicas of all the arts by Vermeer are shown in the order of history. Vermeer is known as the Master of light, as he was good at expressing lights in different ways. That said, they also have an exhibition of how the lights work in his arts. 

Museum Prinsenhof Delft

Do you ever know the founder of Netherlands ? His name is Willem I. He contributed to protecting Netherlands from Spain and building up its country. Thus, he is considered to be the origin of the kingdom of Netherlands. Unfortunately, he was murdered right here in 1584. Its actual bullet hole still remains. The main part of this museum isn’t only this, but they have full of exhibitions about the history of Netherlands. 

Here is the end of this list. I hope you find it helpful. Enjoy your trip in Delft! 

Rotterdam is the second biggest city in Netherlands. In this city, distinctive modern buildings are found all around with full of charming attractions. It takes around 1 hour by a direct train from Amsterdam. Here is a simple must-do list to discover this great city.

Cube House

Cube House is one of examples of unique building in Rotterdam. However, this building is not only for tourist attraction. Actually people live in! Moreover, hostel is included in Cube House. If you are interested in how it is like to live in such a slanted house, stay for one night!

Market Hall

Next to Cube House, you will easily find a remarkable huge building, which is Market Hall. Go inside the building and you will be surprised at its marvelous ceiling.

People actually live here as well. You can have several Dutch food here as well as international ones. One top of that, there is a large supermarket under the ground. 

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

This modern building surrounded all around by grass is a museum known as Boijmans Van Beuningen. It houses a full of modern arts. When taking a break after appreciating arts, there is a cafe on the rooftop with city view.

Rotterdam zoo

Rotterdam zoo (NL:Diergaarde Blijdorp) is the most popular zoo in Netherlands. It has as much as 25 hectare area, even trains run trough it. Its area is classified into the world region like South America, Africa Asia. 

Euromast

This is the best place to have a panoramic view of Rotterdam. They have the observatory that you can go onto, and some playful attraction that you can go up higher with exciting music as optional. 

Here is the end of this list. I hope you find it helpful. Enjoy your trip in Rotterdam!