Liziba Monorail Station

Why it's worth it

The metro station that runs through a building — Line 2's monorail pierces the 19-storey Liziba residential block between floors six and eight, trains sliding through living rooms every few minutes since 2005. The city swallowed the railway and carried on.

Don't miss

• The train-entering-building moment from the street-level viewing deck — free theatre every three minutes
• Standing inside a middle carriage as the corridor of flats flashes past the windows
• The old stairwell murals about the station's construction story

Getting there

Line 2 to Liziba station; the viewing deck is at street level below the block, signed from Exit 2.

Tips

• Trains run both directions — catch one through the building, then watch the next from below
• Morning and late afternoon have the best light on the facade; midday flattens it
• It's residential: the deck crowd is welcome, the stairwells are not