Last updated on 06/30/2026
Discovering Berlin away from the well-worn tourist trails works especially well with the right tours. The neighbourhood and explorer tours by art:berlin take guests into the corners that are missing from the guidebook, while Foxtrail Berlin turns the city into a tricky scavenger hunt. With the Berliner Unterwelten you head down into bunkers and disused tunnels beneath Wedding. If you like to keep moving, you can jog past the sights with Mike's SightRunning, and k3 stadtfuehrungen shows the diverse Neukoelln from the perspective of the people who live there. Each of these tours tells a different story of the city. Which of these journeys of discovery would you set off on first?
Ellen Mehrhoff-Roddewig
I know Berlin well and still enjoy being shown around, because every tour opens up a new perspective. I found the descent with the Berliner Unterwelten and the Foxtrail scavenger hunt across Mitte the most exciting. For this list I gathered the tours that go far beyond the usual sightseeing rounds.
With art:berlin's neighborhood and discovery tours, you'll experience Berlin's history and architecture intensely. Schöneberg, in particular, offers exciting insights into literature, art, and sustainability, far from classic sightseeing paths.
The operators "Eat the World" offer a culinary city walk through Berlin for gournets.
Discover Berlin on the tracks of the fox: Launched in August 2018, Foxtrail is an exciting mix of Berlin Rally, city tour, scavenger hunt and escape game.
With "stadt im ohr" (city in your ear), you can experience Berlin in a whole new way: audio tours transform the districts of Mitte, Wedding, Friedrichshain, and Friedenau into lively radio plays. The neighborhoods reveal stories, historical sounds, and music while you take a relaxing stroll.
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City walks by young Berliners for young people - this is the motto of "Wir sind Berlin" ("We are Berlin").
You can experience the best sights of Berlin on the run and have a workout at the same time with a tour from Mike's SightRunning.
On his tour on Jewish life in Berlin guide Jörg Benario treats the touchy subject of the Holocaust rather with wit and a sense of Jewish humour than with uptight embarrassment.
City walks for men and dogs alike - this idea of tourism-professional Melanie Kies kicked her into second gear.
Do you have any idea how the ghost station Oranienburg, the Gasometer or Volkspark Humboldthain look like underground?
Where was the Berlin Wall? This is the question city guides get asked most frequently.
