Attic Hostel Torino
The two-minute-walk-from-Porta-Nuova hostel that actually books walking tours and bike rides — small, social, station-side.
Attic Hostel Torino is a small (40-bed) social hostel in a 19th-century Centro Storico building, two minutes from Porta Nuova station. The owner runs an event program — Val di Susa trekking, river bike tours, night walking tours of Turin — and the lounge is set up for evening hangouts, not just sleeping.
Attic Hostel Torino occupies the top three floors of a 19th-century building on Piazza Pietro Paleocapa, two minutes' walk from Porta Nuova train station. The building is genuinely old — the stairs creak, there's no elevator, the windows are the original tall-and-thin shape — and the hostel has leaned into that instead of papering over it. Floors are wood, walls are exposed brick where possible, the lounge furniture is mismatched-on-purpose.
There are 40 beds across mixed and female dorms (some 4-bed, some 6-bed, some 8-bed), and a couple of private twin and double rooms. The dorm-bathroom split is mixed: the more expensive dorms have a private bathroom inside the room, the cheaper ones share two bathrooms on the floor. AC in every room (the building has no thermal mass — you need it from May to September), and a key-card locker per bunk.
The lounge is the differentiator. It runs the full top-floor width, with a long table, a sofa pit, a bookshelf with travel guides in five languages, and the kitchen on one wall. This is where the walking-tour group meets at 18h45 before going out, and where guests end up sharing pasta and wine after coming back from Murazzi at midnight.
The event program is owner-run: a daily night walking tour of Centro Storico (€10, 90 minutes, includes one Negroni stop), weekly Val di Susa trekking day trips (€35, includes train and lunch), bike tours along the Po river (€20). The events page is on the Attic Hostel Torino Facebook, not the booking confirmation.
Location is the headline: Porta Nuova at the doorstep means easy arrival, the Egyptian Museum is 6 minutes on foot, San Salvario starts 8 minutes south. The Mole is 14 minutes east. Tram 4 (the all-night line) stops two blocks away.
- 01Owner is hands-on — books the walking tours personally, not via a third party
- 02The lounge is genuinely the social heart, not a token reception couch
- 03Small enough (40 beds) that you actually meet other guests within a day
- 04Walking distance to San Salvario aperitivo (8 min) and Quadrilatero Romano (12 min)
- 05Air conditioning in every room, which Turin summers will make you grateful for
- Two-minute walk from Porta Nuova station — the closest hostel to long-distance trains
- Owner-run event program: Val di Susa trekking, bike tours, night walks of Turin
- Proper lounge with the kind of sofa-and-table setup that forces conversation
- Mix of dorms with private bathrooms and dorms with shared facilities — pick your price
“Good location and the room was quite nice. Bathrooms were clean even though shared on the floor. Lounge was the best part — by night two I knew everyone.”
“2 minutes walk from Central Station to where I arrived by train from Rome — the easiest hostel arrival I have ever had. The night walking tour the owner runs is excellent.”
“Le salon, sans aucun doute, et pouvoir se retrouver dans cet espace pour préparer la soirée. Ambiance hostel à l'ancienne, pas industrielle. Je recommande.”
- Porta Nuova Train Station180 m
- Egyptian Museum450 m
- San Salvario aperitivo strip600 m
- Mole Antonelliana1.1 km
- Piazza Castello800 m
- Tram 4 stop (Vittorio Emanuele)160 m
