It has its own tourist information booth and bureau de change. There is a taxi rank outside and a range of bus services. A Metro station is due to open here in late 1999, though few who know Lisbon expect construction to meet that deadline. Gare do Oriente station, built for Expo 98.
Passengers alighting here can take the metro into town.
Trains from the south of Portugal arrive on the southern bank of the Tagus in the working-class town of Barreiro. The ferry across to Lisbon offers wonderful views and is surely one of the most stunning ways to arrive in any city. Barreiro has nothing in the way of tourist information but the staff are helpful enough. Rossio station serves Queluz and Sintra. The latter has also benefited from a new link with Gare do Oriente.