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Nature park in Büyükada, Istanbul, Turkey

Büyükada Nature Park

Büyükada Nature Park is a nature park in Istanbul Province, Turkey.

Büyükada Nature Park
Büyükada Nature Park · Zeynep Ayta
The place

Büyükada Nature Park is a nature park in Istanbul Province, Turkey.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Büyükada Nature Park

2 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.

  1. 01
    Büyükada Greek Orthodox Orphanage

    The Prinkipo Greek Orphanage is a historic 20,000-square-meter wooden building on Büyükada, one of the nine Princes' Islands off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey, in the Sea of Marmara. It is considered the largest wooden building in Europe and second largest in the world.

    1.3 km · historical building in Büyükada, Adalar, Istanbul · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hesed Le Avraam Synagogue

    The Hesed Le Avraam Synagogue, also known as the Büyükada Synagogue or the Hesed Beit Avraham Synagogue, is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the Sirkeci area of Büyükada, in the Adalar district of Istanbul, in the Istanbul Province of Turkey. Completed in c. 1920s, the synagogue is open for services only during summer months, like the other synagogues of the Princes' Islands.

    2.8 km · synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia

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.

Go there

Getting to Büyükada Nature Park

Airports
Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen (SAW), 17 km · İstanbul (IST), 58 km · Hasan Polatkan (AOE), 165 km
  • Istanbul → Büyükada Nature Park
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Eskişehir → Büyükada Nature Park
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Edremit → Büyükada Nature Park
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Büyükada Nature Park

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 Büyükada Nature Park. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inNo bridge, tunnel or airstrip so you get here by ferry from Istanbul city.
  • Get inMavi Marmara ferries sail hourly from Bostancı to Heybeliada and Büyükada.
  • Get inIDO ferries sail further out to the Marmara Islands and don't call at the Princes' Islands.
  • Get inYassıada has no ferry but is being converted into a museum island, so boat trips or heli-tours may visit.
  • Get aroundBetween islands, the ferries are frequent enough for day-trips.

From Wikivoyage: Istanbul/Princes' Islands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    288 km
  2. 02
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    372 km
  3. 03
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    413 km
  4. 04
    MykonosGR

    12 ways of moving, 23 sources

    500 km
  5. 05
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    525 km

If you know how people move in Büyükada Nature Park – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Büyükada Nature Park

Büyükada Nature Park is 10 km from Maltepe, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Princes' Islandsgroup of islands in the Marmara Sea and a district of Istanbul, Turkey3.8 km
  • Dilburnu Nature Parkprotected area of natural habitats and historically significant structures in Turkey700 m