Artashar
Worth seeing in and around Artashar
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01
- 02Metsamor site
Remains of an old fortress located to the southwest of the Armenian village of Taronik, in the Armavir Province.
1.7 km · Wikipedia - 03
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Artashar
- Airports
- Zvartnots (EVN), 19 km · Shirak (LWN), 76 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 150 km
- Gyumri → Artashar81 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · $9–12
- Nakhchivan → ArtasharTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Tbilisi → Artashar184 km · quickest by road, 5h 53m · ₾31–42
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Artashar
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Artashar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMarshrutkas to Echmiadzin (line 203) start from the central (Kilikiya) bus station in Yerevan, at least every 30 mins, more often in busy periods, and take 20-30 mins.
- Get aroundZvartnots is 5 km east, back towards Yerevan: take a marshrutka (several alternatives to the 203 for this short hop) or taxi.
From Wikivoyage: Echmiadzin, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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If you know how people move in Artashar – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Artashar
Artashar is 29 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.