A large station, arrived and departed from here, used a hub for S Bahn most days here. Plenty of food outlets and as you can imagine a lot of people milling about. Bit uncomfortable outside main entrance due to "hanging about people" which I'm afraid doesn't give a good impression to first time visitors to Hamburg that arrive by train.

We didn’t catch a train to or from here but caught a bus to here to get on the hop on hop off bus! we were very surprised at the amount of restaurants, and the food hall and shopping available inside the station, and a lot of the vendors spoke English. Very impressed! If only we had known the food hall was there before we ate a very mediocre and expensive for what we ordered meal at the cafe outside and served by unfriendly rude owners, who couldn’t even force a smile, or be polite enough to say Thankyou when being paid. Clean toilets in the complex but directions were a bit hard to follow to find them so had to ask some security guards there who were most helpful!

This is a suitably impressive and imposing main station. There are large concourses which are well stocked with shops and food and beverage outlets and the main platform area is huge. Well located in central Hamburg.

An extremely busy train station with hundreds of people coming and going. We bought our tickets from a machine and it took some effort to get the machine to accept our credit card. Otherwise all went well. There are some characters about so watch your wallet and belongings. Very, very busy.