Union Station

Washington Union Station, known locally as Union Station, is a major train station, transportation hub, and leisure destination in Designed by Daniel Burnham and opened in 1907, it is Amtrak's second-busiest station and North America's 13th-busiest railroad station.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: main railway station in Washington, D.C.
  • Also known as: “Washington Union Station” and “Washington, DC Union Station”
  • Address: Washington, DC
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Mall and National Postal Museum.

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The , a national park, is a famous 2-mile-long tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly boulevard in stretching from the Capitol Building in the east to the Lincoln Memorial and Potomac River on the west.

Museum
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The , located in , is the primary postal museum in the United States. It covers large portions of the postal history of the United States and other countries. is situated 570 feet west of Union Station.

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The , often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government. is situated 2,900 feet south of Union Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include NoMa and Capitol Hill.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood of , located in Ward 6 of the city. The neighborhood encompasses the region north of Massachusetts Avenue located north and east of Union Station.

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is a venerable neighborhood just east of the Capitol building, best known as the main residence in the city for the legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government, and for the staffers who run the place.

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is D.C.'s old downtown quarter, east of 15th St, and includes the neighborhoods of Chinatown, Penn Quarter, Judiciary Square, and Mount Vernon Square. Most D.C. natives simply call this area Downtown.

Union Station

Latitude
38.89759° or 38° 53′ 51″ north
Longitude
-77.00616° or 77° 0′ 22″ west
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
Height
24 feet (7.3 metres)
IATA airport code
ZWU
Open location code
87C4VXXV+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
way 67100178
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­train_station
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
4140810
Wiki­data ID
Q3570
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Union Station” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Վաշինգտոնի Յունիոն կայարան”
  • Basque: “Union Station (Washington Hiria)”
  • Basque: “Union Station”
  • Belarusian: “станцыя Юньён”
  • Catalan: “Union Station”
  • Chinese: “华盛顿特区联合车站”
  • Chinese: “华盛顿联合车站”
  • Chinese: “华盛顿车站”
  • Chinese: “聯合車站”
  • Chinese: “華盛頓特區聯合車站”
  • Chinese: “華盛頓聯合車站”
  • Danish: “Union Station”
  • Dutch: “Union Station”
  • Esperanto: “Stacidomo Vaŝingtono Unuiĝa”
  • French: “Gare de Washington Union Station”
  • French: “gare de Washington Union”
  • French: “Washington Union”
  • Georgian: “იუნიონ სტეიშენი”
  • German: “Washington DC Hauptbahnhof”
  • German: “Washington Union Station”
  • Hebrew: “תחנת יוניון (וושינגטון)”
  • Hungarian: “Washington Union Station”
  • Indonesian: “Washington Union Station”
  • Italian: “Stazione di Washington Union”
  • Italian: “Union Station”
  • Italian: “Washington Union Station”
  • Japanese: “ユニオン駅 (ワシントンD.C.)”
  • Japanese: “ユニオン駅”
  • Japanese: “ワシントン・ユニオン駅”
  • Korean: “유니언 역”
  • Korean: “유니언역”
  • Navajo: “Kin Náhálgaaí Bił Hahoodzodi kǫʼ naʼałbąąsii ninádaaltłiʼígi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Union Station”
  • Persian: “يونيون استيشن”
  • Persian: “یونیون استیشن”
  • Polish: “Union Station w Waszyngtonie”
  • Polish: “Washington Union Station”
  • Portuguese: “Union Station”
  • Russian: “Юнион-Стейшн”
  • Slovak: “Union Station”
  • Spanish: “Union Station”
  • Swedish: “Union Station, Washington D.C.”
  • Swedish: “Union Station”
  • Turkish: “Union İstasyonu”
  • Urdu: “واشنگٹن یونین اسٹیشن”
  • Welsh: “Gorsaf reilffordd Union, Washington DC”
  • Welsh: “Gorsaf reilffordd Union”
  • Western Panjabi: “یونین سٹیشن”

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