Σταθμός Λαρίσης · district
Larissa Station scores 9 out of 100 for overall safety — high crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 9,219 people at 16,579 people per km².
The score is absolute, not a ranking: 50 is the offence rate for Greece as a whole, 100 the safest end of the scale and 0 the least safe, and every doubling of the rate costs the same number of points wherever you are. Regional units are scored from Eurostat's police-recorded offence rates per 100,000 inhabitants. Greece publishes nothing finer, so municipalities and districts share out their region's measured rate by how built-up they are and by documented local reporting — treat those two levels as an estimate, not a count of reported crime.
The strip either side of Athens' main railway station, opened in 1904 at the end of Ioulianou on Domokou, with its own metro stop on Line 2. It is a functional arrival-and-departure zone hemmed in by tracks: budget hotels, kiosks, car hire, the Peloponnese station shed opposite, and behind it a stock of abandoned neoclassical and industrial buildings occupied by homeless people, migrants and drug users. Almost nobody chooses to be here except to catch a train.
Trains and the metro keep people moving until late, but the surrounding blocks are badly lit, largely shuttered and read as bleak; this is a wait-inside-the-station-not-outside-it place.
Only worth it for an early train, and then only in a hotel with a staffed 24-hour desk. Everyone else pays a little more and sleeps in Koukaki, Psyrri or Syntagma, twenty minutes away by metro.
Reputation against reality. Travellers arriving here at midnight regularly report feeling uneasy, and forum advice is consistent — take a taxi from the rank straight to the hotel. That is sensible without meaning the area is violent; it is empty and neglected rather than predatory.
Streets and squares: Domokou · Ioulianou · Deligianni · Karaiskaki Square · Filadelfeias