Plan your visit

Every successful visit is planned from home. Here we give answers to all sorts of practical questions. Find information about parking and transport, admission to the Tower, food and drink etc.

No more than 40 people are allowed in the View at a time. Visitors must expect to wait or queue for security checks.

Admission to the Tower

Visitors enter the Tower via the Royal Gate entrance, a large gate facing the Grand Square. At the entrance, there are two queues: one for the View and one for the restaurant. To access either, visitors are subject to security measures that resemble airport security procedures. Through security, you take the elevator up to the Tower.

Take the elevator to level 1 for the restaurant. If you have booked a table, your journey ends here.

If you wish to visit the View, take the elevator to level 2. There are then stairs to the next floor. At level 2, there is an exhibition in an area previously known as Pulterkammeret (the Box Room).

Practical information

Address

The Tower at the Royal Gate entrance
The Danish Parliament
Christiansborg Palace 
1240 Copenhagen K

Opening hours

The View
Monday: Closed
Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00-21:00
Sunday: 11:00-17:30

The Restaurant
Monday: Closed
Tuesday-Saturday: 11:15-16:30
Sunday: Closed

Note: Last admission 15 minutes before closing time. Visitors should expect to queue. Please arrive in good time.

Car parks

There are no public car parks at Christiansborg Palace, and there are very few parking spaces nearby. Visitors are recommended to check parking opportunities on VisitCopenhagen's website.


Public transport

Any of the following bus routes takes you directly to Christiansborg Palace: 2A, 37, 26, 31 and 23. The nearest metro station is Gammel Strand Station, right next to Christiansborg Palace. Two other metro stations, Kongens Nytorv and Nørreport, are about one kilometre from the Tower.

For more information about public transport, visit rejseplanen.dk.

The Tower is accessible to everyone.

There are four disabled parking spaces in Tøjhusgade only a short distance from Christiansborg Palace and the Tower. If you have questions about parking for the disabled and disabled access to the Tower, please contact the Danish Parliament’s Visitors Service.

Prams and pushchairs (including fold-down models) are not permitted in the Tower. You are welcome to park your pram or pushchair at the Royal Gate entrance. You leave your pram or pushchair here at your own risk.

There are nappy changing facilities in the restaurant toilets.

Animals are not permitted in the Tower. However, guide dogs and other service dogs accompanied by their owner are welcome at the restaurant and the View.

The cloakroom on the restaurant floor is reserved for restaurant guests. The cloakroom is unmanned. You leave your belongings here at your own risk. Small bags and cases are permitted provided that they measure no more than 55x40x23 cm. We regret that we cannot offer to store suitcases, bags and other types of baggage.

Visitors to the Tower are not permitted to bring their own food and drink. However, you are welcome to visit the restaurant in the Tower. We recommend that you book a table in advance.

Photography is permitted provided that you take photos for personal use only. Commercial recordings and recordings that require special equipment may only be permitted by agreement with the Danish Parliament. Please use the #taarnet hashtag when you post images of the Tower on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.

Contact the Danish Parliament's Visitors' Service

Telephone +45 3337 3210  (Tuesday-Friday 9.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.)

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