Napoli Stazione Centrale

This station is pretty nice and organized. There’s large screens everywhere that tell you where your train will be departing from, there’s shops and cafés on the lower level and there’s also a luggage holding spot in case you want to step out of the station but leave your luggage behind. The only place with free Wi-​Fi is a café on the –1 level call Vyta. Enjoy!

Pretty good signage. Well-​lit. Relatively clean downstairs bathroom.
Feels safe, considering the area around it. Be careful outside of here… Lots of aggressive people and pick-​pocketers.

Easy to navigate station with clearly marked signs for the tracks, tickets and taxis. I gave it only 3 stars bc you can smoke in the station. While the station is (kind of) an open air station, it has a roof, glass doors and shops and smoking can be really unpleasant if you are sitting on a bench waiting for a train and someone lights up next to you.

Napoli Centrale, located in Piazza Garibaldi, is the main train station in Naples, Italy. This train station is the sixth largest train station in Italy and contains 25 tracks. There are several casual dining spots in Napoli Centrale as well as a variety of stores selling everything from clothing, accessories, make up and newspapers.
The station is very organized and clearly marked with signs so we were able to quickly make our way to the taxi stand outside. The taxi area outside was a bit chaotic, but one of the taxi drivers decided to take over and started directing the line to each cab.

The two stars here should be taken as a sign of encouragement because this is a station that is trying hard to get better (and it is better than it used to be. (I’ve been passing through at least a dozen times a month for four years, i should know.
Like it’s cousin Termini Station in Rome, Napoli Centrale has been modernizing and spiffing up. Many of the stores that have set up shop are quality italian and European brands (Mango, Molleskine, Desigual). Security has improved. Like any major city train station you have to keep an eye out, but compared to the chaos of Piazza Garibaldi the station is an oasis. And i no longer get harassed by «helpers» at the automatic ticket machines (like the last two times i was in Rome).
The drawbacks are the same as everywhere else in Naples — while the passage to the metro or the Circumvesuviana train lines are clean, well-​lit and easy to go through they are not easy for new-​commoners mainly because they are poorly marked. Late at night (after 9 pm) only one store in the huge place is selling metro tickets and there are no automatic machines. And no clear makings at all for what tram or but to get to go to the boat terminal.
The real test will be after work on piazza Garibaldi is finally finished. If that starts to improve the quality of life out there, things can only get better inside.
The question is when.

We connected here from Rome to a smaller local train line which services Pompeii and Sorrento on the Amalfi Coast.
It was easy enough to figure out, and we figured out our transfer in plenty of time. After coming from Termini in Rome, this honestly seemed like cake.