North Rhine-Westphalia’s excellent motorway network plan makes travel by car easy and comfortable and allows you to enjoy maximum flexibility on site. Take the major Rhine-Ruhr motorways A52, A3, A40 and A42 to reach Messe Essen. The signs for the exhibition centre will guide you easily to our site where you find ample parking spaces. From there, you can reach Messe Essen easily on foot or with the exhibition centre bus.

Arrival via A52
Coming from Bochum and Düsseldorf, please take exit no. 27 (Essen-Haarzopf), resp. no. 28 (Essen-Rüttenscheid). Follow “Norbertstraße” for about 880 m and then turn left into “Messeplatz”. After about 30 m, you will reach the entrance to the parking space P1 on the right.

Arrival via B224
Coming from downtown Essen or the A 40, turn right into “Norbertstraße” and then after about 110 m right again into “Messeplatz”. After about 30 m, you will reach the entrance to the parking space P1 on the right.

Address for navigation systems: Messeplatz 1, 45131 Essen

You can reach Messe Essen quickly and sustainably by rail, and make good use of your travel time. The ideally connected Essen Central Railway Station is a hub for over 120 daily ICE, InterCity, EuroCity and InterRegio connections in all directions. From there, you can reach the exhibition venue in only 5 minutes with the Underground line 11.

Excellent connections to Düsseldorf Airport enable quick and convenient travel, even from afar. Düsseldorf Airport is only 20 minutes' drive from the Essen exhibition grounds and is also well-connected by rail. With more than 500 daily departures and arrivals, it offers flights to over 170 cities in Germany and abroad. There is a separate information counter for Messe Essen in the middle of the arrivals level of Terminal B.