The original roof
The 1854 structure over the modern restaurants.
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By train, which is the simplest and fastest option: trains leave the airport station directly below the arrivals hall and reach Oslo Central in about twenty to twenty-five minutes. There are two services — the dedicated airport express and ordinary regional trains that call at the airport — and the second is clearly cheaper for only a few minutes more, so ask for it. Buses are cheaper still but much slower in traffic. Taxis in Norway are very expensive.
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Østbanehallen is the original building of Oslo's East Station, opened in 1854 for Norway's first railway — the line that connected the city to Eidsvoll in the north to carry timber. The building, with its brick front and arched windows, is what remains of that first station after modern Oslo Central grew up around and swallowed it. For years it stood half-empty and neglected; it was restored and reopened in 2015 as a food hall, with small restaurants, cafés and shops under the original roof. Its value to a visitor is practical rather than sightseeing. It adjoins the central station and is the first thing you see if you arrive in Oslo on the airport train, and it is a reasonable place to eat and sit between trains without paying the tourist-restaurant prices of Karl Johans gate. **Alcohol is served at most of its outlets**, as is usual in Norway.
The 1854 structure over the modern restaurants.
Right beside the central and airport-train station.
Jernbanetorget 1, 0154 Oslo