Rome Train Station: Your Guide to Roma Termini

Roma Termini station, or simply Termini as everyone calls it, is the city's most important train station. From here you can take the day trips from Rome that are genuinely worth doing.

It connects to the Rome metro via lines A and B, and outside the building numerous public and private bus routes come and go all day.

Traveling around Italy by train from Roma Termini

This is where the Leonardo Express departs from, the direct link to Rome's main airport: Fiumicino (Leonardo da Vinci Airport)

Among the national and international train lines that move more than 500,000 passengers through this station every day is Trenitalia. Head to their site and check the deals to nearby cities.

Termini is also the starting point for many of the excursions you can do near Rome. From here you can travel around Italy by train in very little time, to places as varied as Naples (the jumping-off point for a trip to Pompeii), Florence, Milan and Venice, among many other destinations.

Staying near Roma Termini

Roma Termini station sits in Esquilino, one of the neighborhoods known for its attractive accommodation prices. If you want to stay right in this area, take a look at our pick of hotels in Rome near Termini with the best value for money.

Services at Termini

Inside the station, everything is clearly signposted, and the ticket machines and staffed counters work efficiently to handle the 170 million passengers who pass through here each year.

On the lower level of Roma Termini station there's a shopping center, the Forum Termini, with shops of every kind.

Inside Termini you'll find fast food restaurants, a hairdresser, shoe shops, tobacco and newspaper kiosks, clothing stores, a bookshop and a medical point. Everything a traveler needs and then some. You can see it all in more detail on the station's official website.

Getting to Termini

Termini has a metro station of the same name.

To get to Termini from Rome's airports you have several options, and one of the cheapest and most convenient is the private bus companies. Check out Fiumicino or Ciampino for more.

As in any busy station, keep an eye on your luggage and watch out for pickpockets, both inside the station and in the streets around it.

Read more about transport in Rome.