Find below a Rio de Janeiro Subway Map aimed at foreign tourists visiting Brazil — you can find this map in PDF in My Rio Travel Guide. This metro map will help you to get around Copacabana, Ipanema, Centro (downtown) and other districts in Rio where taking the underground subway might be useful to visit places of interest.
This Map of Rio de Janeiro Subway has been extracted from My Rio Travel Guide (the must-have travel guidebook in PDF format). In order to simplify the map and the e-book, to save space and decrease file size, stations farther into the suburbs (after Maria da Graça Station) have been eliminated from the original subway map. However, 99,99% of the tourists do not venture to the Rio de Janeiro suburbs, so the average tourist will not miss any station near by a tourist attraction.
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Note 1: the stations’ locations on the subway map are approximate.
Note 2: on Sat., Sun. and holidays the interchange between lines 1 and 2 occurs ONLY at Estácio Station.
Note 3: on weekdays the interchange between lines 1 and 2 occurs anywhere between Central and Botafogo Stations.