This is the bookish, well-fed corner of the west — a square ringed with cafés, bookshops wedged into railway arches, and the city's best Asian eating along one long street. Two and a half kilometres, an afternoon, nothing strenuous about it.
Start at Savignyplatz, a square cut in two by the S-Bahn viaduct, with gardens on each side and tables on the pavement. Take a coffee, then duck under the arches to the Bücherbogen, where art and architecture books fill the brick vaults and the trains pass overhead.
Onto Kantstraße, which over the years became Berlin's Asian canteen — note where you'll come back for noodles — and past the Stilwerk design centre. Loop down to the Theater des Westens, an 1896 pile worth a long look from across the street, then south into Fasanenstraße.
Here is the close. The Literaturhaus Berlin sits in an 1889 villa with a glasshouse café in the garden behind — the quietest coffee in the district. A few doors on, the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum will hollow you out in half an hour. End at Uhlandstraße, one stop from anywhere.
