Beykoz
Beykoz is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.
Beykoz is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 310 km2, and its population is 246,833 (2025). It is located in the Anatolian Side, at the northern end of the Bosphorus. The name is believed to be a combination of the words bey and kos, whichmeans "village" in Farsi. Beykoz includes an area from the streams of Küçüksu and Göksu to the opening of the Bosphorus into the Black Sea, and the villages in the hinterland as far as the Riva creek. Before the Turkish alphabet reform of 1928, it was sometimes Latinized variously as Beicos or Beikos.
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Things to do
A bosphorus tour is a must-do.
- 01Emaar Square
Complex with a shopping centre, a skydeck and an aquarium.
- 02Tarihi Çinili Hamamı
Çavuşdere Cd 204, Selamsız-Üsküdar ( M5 Bağlarbaşı 650 m, Marmara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi 650 m), men), +90 216 334 97 10 (women).
- 03Üsküdar Musical Society
- 04Nakkaştepe
A park right next to the Bosphorus Bridge.
- 05Hıdiv Kasrı
- 06Validebağ Park
Also Sultan Abdülaziz Hunting Lodge and Hababam Museum.
From Wikivoyage: Beykoz, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
Balık-ekmek(literally “fish-bread”, a grilled fish sandwiched inside half a bread) is an increasingly popular low-budget meal in buffets along the coast. Some of the various fish restaurants in the market area a little inland also sell balık ekmek and mussel sandwiches with garlic sauce onto the street. Other popular options include kokoreç and patso.
- 01İmren Restaurant
You could try kelle paca soup or doner here.
From Wikivoyage: Beykoz, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Beykoz
- Airports
- Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen (SAW), 32 km · İstanbul (IST), 34 km · Hasan Polatkan (AOE), 190 km
- Eskişehir → Beykoz193 km · quickest by road, 4h 28m · ₺510–670
- Edremit → Beykoz246 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · ₺650–870
- Ankara → Beykoz345 km · quickest by road, 5h 41m · ₺800–1,060
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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 Beykoz
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 Beykoz. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerries from Üsküdar and Kadıköy on the Asian Side dock at Beşiktaş quay and several others along the coast.
- Go nextFrequent buses and minibuses run from Sarıyer into the countryside north of the city.
- Go nextAnadolu Kavağı: take a ferry from Sarıyer to this pleasant village across the strait on the Asian coast, crowned by Yoros Castle on the hilltop, with views north over the Black Sea.
From Wikivoyage: Istanbul/European Bosphorus, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Beykoz
Beykoz is 12 km from Şişli, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.