Budapest
Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.
Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is Hungary's primate city with 1.7 million inhabitants and its greater metro area has a population of about 3.3 million, representing one-third of the country's population and producing more than 40% of the country's economic output. Budapest is the political, economic, and cultural center of the country, among the ten largest cities in the European Union and the second largest urban area in Central and Eastern Europe. Budapest stands on the River Danube and is strategically located at the center of the Pannonian Basin, lying on ancient trade routes linking the hills of Transdanubia with the Great Plain.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
The Danube. This is what's unique about Budapest, the urban river landscape. This feature can be admired in several ways: from panoramic points, such as Fisherman's Bastion or Gellért Hill's Citadella in South Buda, promenading along the river banks, or from the river's perspective, from a boat. For romantic views of the city, go at night.
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Things to do
The simplest, and perhaps best of all: get a map, circle the things you want to see, divide up your time and stroll around in the city. Spend time in charming cafés or restaurants, preferably not right at the main tourist sites, look at the market stands, walk on a bridge in the evening.
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Where to eat
Hungarian food deserves to be (and often is) mentioned among the country's main sites. As in other cultures, the Hungarian approach to food combines pride in their own traditions with a readiness to accept outside influences. The result is a vibrant restaurant scene where an Asian-Hungarian fusion restaurant may well be of genuine interest.
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Getting to Budapest
- Airports
- Budapest Liszt Ferenc (BUD), 17 km · M. R. Štefánik (BTS), 157 km · Pécs-Pogány (PEV), 178 km
- Pécs → Budapest170 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · Ft4,100–5,450
- Debrecen → Budapest194 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · Ft4,640–6,200
- Bratislava → Budapest161 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · €20–28
- 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 Budapest
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 Budapest. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFour to seven people will cost Ft21000 oneway, Ft41000 return per minibus.
- Get aroundAnnual Passes (Éves bérletek) Quarterly passes (Negyedéves bérletek) Semester passes (Szemeszterre szóló bérletek) Ferry tickets (Révjegyek): valid for a single trip on ferry line D14.
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Next door to Budapest
Budapest is 2 km from Buda, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.