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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Kaunas","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"The interwar capital: a modernist city built in twenty years, two wooden funiculars from the 1930s, a museum of devils, and the consulate where one man wrote thousands of visas that saved lives.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1304012","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"1920\u20131939 | When Kaunas was Lithuania's capital\r\n1.6 km | Laisves aleja, one of Europe's longest pedestrian streets\r\n2022 | European Capital of Culture","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"A capital for twenty years, and it built like one","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Between 1920 and 1939 Vilnius was held by Poland, and Lithuania made Kaunas its temporary capital. The country spent those two decades building a modern state in a provincial town \u2014 ministries, banks, a university, thousands of apartment blocks \u2014 in an optimistic modernist style all its own.\r\n\r\nThat architecture is the reason to come. It earned Kaunas a European Heritage Label and it is unlike the interwar modernism of anywhere else, partly because it was built fast, cheaply and with local materials by architects who had trained abroad and come home.\r\n\r\nThe city also holds two pieces of Second World War history that should be visited together. Sugihara House was the Japanese consulate, where Chiune Sugihara issued thousands of transit visas to Jewish refugees in 1940 against his government's instructions. The Ninth Fort, on the edge of the city, is where tens of thousands of people were murdered.\r\n\r\nKaunas was European Capital of Culture in 2022 and has the student population and the street art to show for it. Two days.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | Train from Vilnius 1 hour, about \u20ac7. Airport is a budget hub with a bus into town\r\nGetting around | Trolleybuses and buses about \u20ac1. The centre is walkable and flat\r\nCurrency | Euro\r\nThe funiculars | Two from the 1930s, still running, about \u20ac1 each way\r\nNinth Fort | A mass killing site on the edge of the city. Free grounds, small museum fee\r\nStudents | Term time September to June, and the city is noticeably livelier","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"An old town at the river junction, a modernist new town east of it.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"13","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"Old Town | First-timers | At the meeting of two rivers: the castle, the town hall square, restaurants and most beds. | 54.8970 | 23.8860 |  | \nNew Town and Laisves aleja | Modernism and life | East along the pedestrian avenue: the interwar architecture, the bars, the caf\u00e9s and the students. | 54.8970 | 23.9230 |  | \nZaliakalnis | Views and quiet | Up the funicular: a hillside district of wooden houses and the Christ's Resurrection basilica. | 54.9040 | 23.9210 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Kaunas","hw_hub_city_do_body":"Walk Laisves aleja, the 1.6-kilometre pedestrian avenue, and look up. The interwar modernist buildings along it and in the streets around are the city's real subject \u2014 banks, ministries and apartment blocks from the 1920s and 30s, built in a distinctive national style. The tourist office runs a modernism route and it is worth following.\r\n\r\nRide a funicular. Two of them, both from the 1930s, both still running with original wooden carriages, at about \u20ac1. The Zaliakalnis one comes out near the Christ's Resurrection basilica, whose roof terrace gives the best view of the city.\r\n\r\nSugihara House, about \u20ac5, was the Japanese consulate where Chiune Sugihara issued thousands of transit visas to Jewish refugees fleeing east in 1940, working against his own foreign ministry's instructions. It is a small museum and a large story.\r\n\r\nThe Ninth Fort, on the edge of the city, is a tsarist fortification used by the Nazis as a killing site \u2014 tens of thousands of people died there. The grounds and monument are free.\r\n\r\nThe Devils' Museum, about \u20ac5, holds some three thousand depictions of the devil from around the world and exists nowhere else.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"Interwar modernism | Free to walk, and the reason the city has a Heritage Label\r\nThe 1930s funiculars | About \u20ac1, with original wooden carriages\r\nSugihara House | About \u20ac5, and a story worth the hour\r\nDevils' Museum | About \u20ac5, and unlike anywhere else","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Kaunas","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Kaunas","hw_hub_city_free_body":"The modernist architecture is free \u2014 Laisves aleja, the streets around it and the New Town grid are an open-air survey of interwar building.\r\n\r\nThe old town, the castle grounds, the town hall square and the river confluence cost nothing.\r\n\r\nThe Ninth Fort grounds and the enormous concrete monument there are free, with only the museum charging a small fee.\r\n\r\nKaunas street art is extensive and free to find, including several large and well-known murals that have become city landmarks.\r\n\r\nPazaislis monastery, a baroque complex on the edge of the city by the reservoir, is free to walk to and charges only a small amount inside.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"The modernist streets | Free, and the point of the city\r\nNinth Fort grounds | Free, with the monument\r\nStreet art | Extensive, and several murals are landmarks\r\nThe river confluence | Free, where the Nemunas and Neris meet","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Kaunas","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Kaunas","hw_hub_city_food_body":"Cheaper than Vilnius across the board. A main is \u20ac8 to \u20ac14 and lunch specials \u20ac5 to \u20ac8.\r\n\r\nThe Lithuanian repertoire applies: cepelinai, the zeppelin-shaped potato dumplings, and saltibarsciai, the cold pink beetroot soup in summer.\r\n\r\nKaunas also has a good modern restaurant scene for its size, a legacy of the 2022 Capital of Culture year.\r\n\r\nThe central market is cheap and good for produce and smoked goods.\r\n\r\nA beer is \u20ac2.50 to \u20ac4.50, and the Lithuanian farmhouse beer tradition is well represented here \u2014 ask for kaimiskas styles rather than the industrial lagers.\r\n\r\nStudent caf\u00e9s along and around Laisves aleja do the cheapest eating in the city.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Cheaper than Vilnius | Mains \u20ac8\u201314, lunch specials \u20ac5\u20138\r\nCepelinai | The national dumplings, and very filling\r\nFarmhouse beer | \u20ac2.50\u20134.50, and worth seeking out\r\nStudent caf\u00e9s | The cheapest eating, around Laisves aleja","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Kaunas","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Kaunas","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Student-driven and cheap. Several universities put tens of thousands of students in a city of under three hundred thousand, and term time from September to June is when it works.\r\n\r\nThe bars are concentrated along and just off Laisves aleja, with more in the old town.\r\n\r\nA beer is \u20ac2.50 to \u20ac4.50 and cocktails \u20ac6 to \u20ac10, noticeably below Vilnius.\r\n\r\nThe 2022 Capital of Culture year left a stronger venue and events scene than the city had before, and there is a reasonable amount of live music.\r\n\r\nSummer moves onto the avenue, which has terraces along much of its length and stays busy into the evening.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Laisves aleja | The avenue and the streets off it\r\nCheap | Beer \u20ac2.50\u20134.50, cocktails \u20ac6\u201310\r\nTerm time | September to June, with a big student population\r\nA better scene since 2022 | The Capital of Culture year left venues behind","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Kaunas","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Kaunas","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"Trolleybuses and buses cost about \u20ac1, and the centre is flat and walkable \u2014 the old town to the eastern end of Laisves aleja is about half an hour on foot.\r\n\r\nThe two funiculars, both from the 1930s, run up to Zaliakalnis and Aleksotas for about \u20ac1 and are transport rather than an attraction, although they are also an attraction.\r\n\r\nTrains from Vilnius take an hour and cost around \u20ac7, running frequently.\r\n\r\nKaunas airport is a budget hub with routes across Europe, and a bus runs into the city for a couple of euros. For many visitors this is the cheapest way into Lithuania.\r\n\r\nBuses reach Klaipeda and the coast in about three hours, and Riga in about four.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"About \u20ac1 a ride | Trolleybuses and buses\r\nThe funiculars | Working 1930s transport, about \u20ac1\r\nVilnius | One hour by train, about \u20ac7\r\nThe airport | A budget hub, and often the cheapest way into the country","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Kaunas","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Kaunas costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Cheaper than Vilnius, and Vilnius is already cheap. Dorms are \u20ac9 to \u20ac20, a main \u20ac8 to \u20ac14, and a beer \u20ac2.50 to \u20ac4.50.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac26 to \u20ac50.\r\n\r\nLithuania uses the euro, so these are the prices you pay.\r\n\r\nThe modernist architecture, the Ninth Fort grounds and the street art are free. The paid sites \u2014 Sugihara House, the Devils' Museum, the fort museum \u2014 are about \u20ac5 each.\r\n\r\nLunch specials at \u20ac5 to \u20ac8 are the main saving.\r\n\r\nThe airport being a budget hub means Kaunas is often the cheapest entry point to the Baltics, and staying here rather than Vilnius saves money throughout.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u20ac9\u201320\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac26\u201350\r\nMuseums about \u20ac5 | Each, and there are only a few\r\nA cheap way into the Baltics | Via the budget airport","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Kaunas","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Kaunas","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Kaunas is a safe city and crime against visitors is low.\r\n\r\nPetty theft happens around the bus and train stations and on Laisves aleja at weekends, at ordinary levels.\r\n\r\nWinter brings ice on pavements, roof ice falling into the street and short days \u2014 about seven hours of light in December.\r\n\r\nThe Ninth Fort is a place where tens of thousands of people were murdered, most of them Jews from Kaunas and from across Europe. It is a memorial rather than an attraction: keep to the paths, and do not photograph yourself at the execution sites or the monument.\r\n\r\nThe same applies at Sugihara House, which is a small museum about a rescue rather than a feel-good story \u2014 around six thousand visas were issued, and most of the community they were issued from did not survive.\r\n\r\nEmergency number is 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"Winter ice | On pavements and falling from roofs\r\nThe Ninth Fort | A mass killing site. No photographs of yourself there\r\nPetty theft | The stations and the avenue at weekends\r\nEmergency | 112","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Kaunas","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Kaunas","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"A baroque monastery, a hill of crosses and the capital an hour away.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Hill of Crosses | 2 hours | Bus via Siauliai, about \u20ac12 | Hundreds of thousands of crosses on a mound, bulldozed repeatedly by Soviet authorities and rebuilt overnight each time. |  | 1304005\nVilnius | 1 hour | Train, about \u20ac7 | The capital, with the baroque old town and Uzupis. |  | 1304007","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Kaunas","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May to September, and term time for the city at full strength.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. Kaunas is inland and continental like Vilnius, with roughly seven hours of daylight in December against seventeen in June, and the student calendar matters as much as the weather.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | -2 | 2 | Freezing and dark. Cheapest, students in\r\nFebruary | -1 | 2 | Cold and snowy. Quiet\r\nMarch | 5 | 3 | Cold but brightening\r\nApril | 12 | 3 | Thaw. Terraces starting on the avenue\r\nMay | 18 | 5 | Excellent. The avenue comes alive\r\nJune | 21 | 5 | The best month. Long light and Pazaislis festival\r\nJuly | 23 | 4 | Warm, with students away\r\nAugust | 22 | 4 | Warm and quieter\r\nSeptember | 17 | 5 | Superb. Term restarts and the city refills\r\nOctober | 11 | 4 | Autumn and good value\r\nNovember | 4 | 2 | Dark and grey. The hardest month\r\nDecember | -1 | 3 | Cold, with a Christmas market on the town hall square","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"A baroque music festival in a monastery, and a legacy of Capital of Culture year.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Kaunas","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/lithuania\/kaunas\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Pazaislis Music Festival | June to August | Pazaislis monastery | Classical concerts in a baroque monastery on the reservoir, running through the summer. |  | \nKaunas Jazz | Spring | Citywide | A long-running festival bringing international acts to venues across the city. |  | \nModernism route | Year-round | Laisves aleja and the New Town | A self-guided architecture trail through the interwar buildings that earned the city a European Heritage Label. |  | \nTerm time | September to June | Citywide | When tens of thousands of students fill the bars and cheap caf\u00e9s. |  | \nChristmas market | December | Town Hall Square | A market in the old town, smaller and calmer than Vilnius. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros \u2014 Lithuania uses them.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"Lithuania is in the eurozone, so these are the prices you will pay. Kaunas runs below Vilnius across the board.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2\r\nMiddle of the road | 18 | 17 | 3 | 10\r\nComfortable | 34 | 30 | 5 | 22","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Kaunas","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"A small scene in the old town and along the avenue, cheaper than Vilnius. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Kaunas","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/lithuania\/kaunas\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Kaunas travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"Why was Kaunas the capital? | Because Vilnius was held by Poland between 1920 and 1939. Lithuania made Kaunas its temporary capital and spent two decades building a modern state there \u2014 ministries, banks, a university and thousands of apartments in a distinctive modernist style that earned the city a European Heritage Label.\r\nWhat is Sugihara House? | The former Japanese consulate, where Chiune Sugihara issued thousands of transit visas to Jewish refugees in 1940, working against his own foreign ministry's explicit instructions. It is a small museum, about \u20ac5, and the story is worth the hour. It is not a comfortable one \u2014 most of the community those visas came from did not survive.\r\nShould I visit the Ninth Fort? | Yes, and treat it as a memorial. It is a tsarist fortification that the Nazis used as a killing site, where tens of thousands of people were murdered, most of them Jews from Kaunas and from elsewhere in Europe. The grounds and the enormous concrete monument are free. Keep to the paths and do not photograph yourself there.\r\nWhat are the funiculars? | Two working funicular railways from the 1930s, with original wooden carriages, running up to the Zaliakalnis and Aleksotas districts for about \u20ac1. They are ordinary public transport that happens to be nearly a century old, and the Zaliakalnis one puts you near the best view of the city.\r\nIs it cheaper than Vilnius? | Yes, across the board. Dorms \u20ac9 to \u20ac20 against \u20ac11 to \u20ac25, a beer \u20ac2.50 to \u20ac4.50, a main \u20ac8 to \u20ac14, and a day around \u20ac26 to \u20ac50. The airport is also a budget hub, which often makes Kaunas the cheapest way into the Baltics.\r\nWhat is the Devils' Museum? | A museum holding around three thousand depictions of the devil collected from around the world, which exists nowhere else and costs about \u20ac5. It began as one artist's private collection and grew from there.\r\nHow long do I need? | Two days. The modernist architecture and Laisves aleja take a day, and Sugihara House, the Ninth Fort and Pazaislis fill the second. Vilnius is an hour away by train if you want both.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Kaunas hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. Then meet the people already there in the app.","hw_hub_city_cta_buttons":"Find hostels in Kaunas | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/lithuania\/kaunas\/\r\nGet the app | https:\/\/hostelworld.onelink.me\/IdiK\/f5a50nhd","hw_hub_city_newsletter_title":"Get the good stuff monthly","hw_hub_city_newsletter_body":"New city guides, deals and route ideas. 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