*POST UPDATED OCTOBER 2026
Hej hej, friends, happy weekend! I hope this post finds you well rested, correctly caffeinated, and, ideally, in your cosiest pair of fluffy socks. I’m interrupting your Sunday for just the briefest of times to share my short-but-sweet latest guide with you: An Afternoon in Uppsala, Sweden. In case you missed it, Husband and I travelled to Sweden back in November last year and fell totally head-over-heels for the place — it’s stunning! We spent four glorious days there: three were spent eating our way around Stockholm, and one was spent exploring the university city of Uppsala. If you missed my Stockholm guide you can catch the link here, but today’s post is all about Uppsala! Shall we?
Listed below is everything we got up to during our afternoon exploring the city. As per usual, I’ve divided the guide up into three familiar categories: getting there / where we ate / where we tourist-ed.
Enjoy, friends!
getting there
Getting to Uppsala from Stockholm is a breeze! Here’s how we made the journey:
from Stockholm Central Station, we purchased two train tickets at the desk bound for Uppsala Central. The tickets cost 140SEK each, and, seeing as there was no discount for buying return tickets, we opted to only get one-ways as we weren’t sure what time we’d want to leave Uppsala at.
the train departed Stockholm Central at 9:37am and arrived into Uppsala Central a speedy 38-minutes later. The journey was comfortable, with some lovely views of the Swedish countryside along they way.
Uppsala Central is about a 10-minute stroll away from the city centre.
for our journey back to Stockholm a few hours later, I downloaded the SJ app and purchased two tickets through that. We were going to buy them at a desk in Uppsala Central, but the guy at the desk told us it was cheaper to just get the app & buy them online, so that’s exactly what we did! Okay, at 120SEK each this time ‘round, the saving was small — but every little helps! Would recommend.
according to the internet, there are 75-93 trains going between the two cities every day, and the travel time varies between 38- to 49-minutes depending on what train you get. For more info on trains to Uppsala, click here. If you’re looking for info about getting the bus to Uppsala instead, click here.