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Shopping Districts: Tauentzienstraße and Kurfürstendamm

Right in front of Zoo station is Breitsheidplatz, a popular meeting and hangout place for people of all ages. From here, two of Berlin’s busiest shopping streets spread out, the wide tree-lined Kurfürstendamm to the west and Tauentzienstraße, with the famous Kadewe store, to the east. The Kurfürstendamm was laid out as a four-lane boulevard similar to the Champs Elysées by Otto von Bismarck. Although Germany has more memorials to Bismarck than any other single figure, Berlin – typically – has denied him a statue on the one street where he really wanted one!