Basel, Switzerland Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. It is located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet. Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany, with 830,000 inhabitants in the tri-national urban agglomeration. Basel is Switzerland's second-largest metropolitan area. Located in northwest Switzerland on the river Rhine, Basel functions as a major centre for the chemical and pharma- ceutical industry. The Basel region, culturally extending into German Baden-Wurttemberg and French Alsace, reflects the heritage of its three states in the modern Latin name: Regio TriRhena. Basel is mainly German- speaking. 　 (L) Basel Badischer Bahnhof ( BBB ) (R) Restaurant Holzschopf, Basel (No smoking ) A green Basel tram is passing through a church. A bus service is relatively frequent in the city of Basal. A green Basel tram A quite inner street of Basal (L) Outdoor sale in Basal (R) Mittlere Brucke and River Rhine (L) A pig-shaped tram running in front of the Hotel Les Trois Rois (R) Mittlere Brucke, Basel (L) Basal Marketplatz (R) Historishes Museum Basal, located in Barfussenplatz (L) Mittlere Brucke (R) Basal Marketplatz ( L) A pig-shaped and ' I love' tramcars (R) McDonald's Basal Marketplatz As seen in other European cities, an outside terrace seat of restaurants is quite common. It is the same in the city located in Barfussenplatzof Basal. Basal has an extensive public transportation network serving the city and connecting to surrounding suburbs, including a large tram network, and has long held an important place as a rail hub. Basel SBB is the central railway station in the city of Basel in Switzerland. Trains run by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) to destinations within Switzerland use this station, as well as Deutsche Bahn ICE trains to Germany as well as Zurich, Interlaken and the Cisalpino service across the Alps to Milan in Italy. Basel Badischer Bahnhof is on the opposite side of the city. Barfussenplatz, Basal 　 (L) A Basal tram runs beside the Zoo Basal Zoo (Zoologisher Garten ) (R) The tram terminal at the front of Basel SBB railway station (L) Victoria Hotel Basel (R) Basel SBB railway station Hotel Victoria Basel is located in front of the Basal SBB Bahnhof. This hotel provides a total of 107 rooms/all non-smoking. Ramada Hotel Basel Conference Center is a tall building, and has a total of 224 rooms. The number of smoking rooms is 25, equivalent to 11.2% of the total. Swiss Hotel Plaza Basel has 238 guest rooms, of which five smoking rooms, consisting of 2.1% of total rooms. Mercure Hotel Europe Basel has 18 smoking rooms among the entire 158 guest rooms. The percentage of smoking rooms to the total is 11.4%. Two restaurants are non-smoking. Smoking is allowed in the bar in this hotel. H Smoking Restriction at Hotels in the World: Actual Survey The ratio of a non-smoking guest room to the total hotel rooms was calculated, based on-the-spot investigation. Heidelberg 2013 Munchen 2013 Geneva 2013 Bern 2013 Ovronnaz 2013 Travel by Train 海外鉄道紀行 All railway trains should be completely smoke -free. 　Italia Rail: Trenitalia 　Rail Travel Ireland 　Railways in Helsinki, Finland 　Train in Norway, Trondheim to Oslo 　Amtrak Acela Express: Boston-Newyork 　Washington DC Metro/Union Station 　Chicago CTA Rail 　Miami Metro Rail 　Stockholm Arlanda Airport and Express 　Stockholm County Railways 　X2000:Stockholm-Copenhagen Express 　Greater Copenhagen Railways 　Paris Rail Terminals 　Paris Metro-RER-Tram 　Korea Train Express, Airport Express and Metro 　Bangkok Mass Transit/Thai Railways 　Indian Railway 　Dehli Metro 　Airport Express and MTR, Hong Kong 　Taiwan High-Speed Rail 　China High-Speed Rail 　Portugal Metro, Railways 　Amsterdam Rail 　High-speed train in Spain 2010 　Barcelona Railways 　Railway Travel in France 2011 　Railway Travel in Germany 2011 　High-speed train in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 2013 　Vancouver Skytrain 　Edomonton Metro 　VIA train, Vancouver to Jasper 　Amtrak: Seattle to Glacier National Park 　San Francisco: cable-car, tram and Bart 　Alaskan Railroad 　Moscow Metro 　Saint Petersburg Metro 　Sapsan, high-speed train of Russia 　Allegro, high-speed train between Finland and Russia 　Railways connecting Canberra and Sydney, Australia 　Gold Coast Light-Rail 　NZ Rail: Tranz Alpine/Scenic 　Brief Journey by Australian Rail 　Narita Airport-City Rail Service 　Japanese high-speed train 'Hayabusa' 　Japanese high-speed train 'Super-Komachi' Smoking ban in the railway trains of the world スイス北西部、ライン川のほとりに位置し、ドイツ、フランス、スイス3国の国境が接する地点にある。ユーロ圏では なく、バーゼル駅の店ではユーロは使用できない。スイス・フランはユーロを使用する欧州連合の狭間にあって孤島の ような存在となっている。しかし、世界でも最も安定した通貨であり、ドル、ユーロ、日本円とともに重要な地位に あることに変わりない。ノヴァルティスおよびロッシュの本社があり、製薬業の世界的都市でもある。 鉄道駅は賑やかなSBB駅と住宅地を控えたBBB（バーゼル・バディッシャー）駅との二つの駅と線路が市街地を囲んで いる。フランスやドイツ国用のユーロパスでもバーゼル駅を利用することが出来る。レストランとカフェは公共的空間 に含まれ、禁煙であると定められているが、罰金を伴う法的規制か自主的規制を期待したものか明確ではない。 バーゼルのバーでは喫煙出来る。 France, Germany and Switzerland Paris 2011 Mont Saint-Michel Marseille Nice Monaco Lyon Strasbourg Freiburg Basel Berlin Railway Travel in Europe 2011 Smoking restrictions in France, Germany and Switzerland バーゼル、フランス、ドイツに隣接するスイスの大都市圏 2011年6月執筆 　2011年5月写真撮影　2013年7月加筆 執筆　医学博士　宮本順伯 ★This Web site is link-free. This information was provided by the Smokefree Hotel and Travel. The photographs were taken in May, and the article was written in June 2011, and revised in July 2013, by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.