Take a tour of the hottest new neighborhood in Berlin

Courtesy of Café PförtnerHipsters love Café Pförtner, located inside inside a colorfully converted bus.For years, Berliners have been saying that Wedding, a 3.5-square-mile working class neighborhood in Berlin, is on the verge of exploding, perched on the precipice of becoming Berlin's hot new neighborhood.

Now it seems like Wedding's time is actually coming, as cool new bars, shops, and restaurants are sprouting up, and the neighborhood is rife with bearded and bunned locals.

Indeed, Wedding is gentrifying rapidly, but manages to retain its authentic, multicultural vibe. While there are still some rough spots in the area, generally, upscale mingles with rundown, new rubs shoulders with old, and rent is still affordable for the many artists and students who call it home.

Let's take a tour.