🇨🇭 Chateau-d’Oex

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Jenis Major
Koordinat 46,475327, 7,132787
Zona Waktu Europe/Zurich
Koneksi 777
Kode UIC 8501394

Tentang Chateau-d’Oex

Château-d'Oex stasiun lies di yang canton dari Vaud di yang Pays-d'Enhaut region, di yang narrow-gauge Montreux–Berner Oberland-Bahn (MOB) scenic mountain railway that winds melalui yang Pre-Alps antara Montreux di Lake Geneva dan Zweisimmen di yang Bernese Oberland. Yang village is internationally known as a centre dari hot-air ballooning, hosting a prestigious annual international balloon festival each January, dan its traditional chalets dan mountain scenery have long made it a quiet alternative ke yang more fashionable resorts nearby. Yang Golden Pass Panoramic Express, which links Montreux dengan Interlaken Ost melalui a change di Zweisimmen, passes melalui Château-d'Oex, offering visitors satu dari yang finest scenic rail perjalanan di Switzerland.

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Chateau-d'Oex is on the MOB line between Montreux and Zweisimmen, about 60 minutes from Montreux. The GoldenPass route is scenic, climbing through vineyards and alpine meadows. The station is at the edge of the village centre.
MOB trains on the Montreux-Zweisimmen Golden Pass line stop at Chateau-d'Oex. Both regional and GoldenPass panoramic trains serve the station. The GoldenPass Express also calls here on its Montreux-Interlaken route.
Chateau-d'Oex station has basic facilities with a small ticket counter. The village centre with its chalets, restaurants, and cheese shops is within a short walk of the platform.
Chateau-d'Oex is world-famous for its International Hot Air Balloon Festival, held every January since 1979. The village was also the starting point of the first non-stop balloon flight around the world by Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones in 1999. A balloon museum commemorates this history.
Beyond the balloon museum and festival, Chateau-d'Oex is a traditional Pays-d'Enhaut village known for paper-cut art (decoupage) and alpine cheese-making. The surrounding mountains offer hiking and skiing, and the village maintains a distinctly French-Swiss pastoral character.

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Data terakhir diperbarui: 2026-02-27