St Pauli is the district for party animals and street-art spotters. Visit the alternative shops too!
For raw, alternative Hamburg, St Pauli is the place to be. The old sailors' quarter is the city's entertainment mecca. It stands for going out and partying, for alternative and underground, but also for seedy clubs and drugs. The urban streetscape full of street art and graffiti fits right in. The crowd you meet here is therefore very mixed. Tourists, hipsters and alternative locals: everyone knows where to find St Pauli. Both on the Reeperbahn and in the giant container port, everything goes on 24 hours a day. Still, even here you can find many nice spots to look out over the harbour with a beer in your hand.