Cincinnati
Cincinnati is the most populous city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat.
Cincinnati is the most populous city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky. It is the third-most populous city in Ohio, and the 66th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 309,317 at the 2020 census. Cincinnati serves as the economic and cultural hub of the tri-state Cincinnati metropolitan area, Ohio's most populous metropolitan area and the nation's 30th-largest, at over 2.3 million residents.
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Worth seeing in and around Cincinnati
10 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.
- 01University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1819 and had an enrollment of over 53,000 students in 2024, making it the second-largest university in Ohio.
3.7 km · public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA · Wikipedia - 02Paycor Stadium
Paycor Stadium, previously known as Paul Brown Stadium, is an outdoor football stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the home venue of the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League and opened on August 19, 2000.
600 m · stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States · Wikipedia - 03Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden
The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is the second oldest zoo in the United States, founded in 1873 and officially opening in 1875. It is located in the Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
5 km · second oldest zoo in the United States · Wikipedia - 04TQL Stadium
TQL Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is the home of Major League Soccer team FC Cincinnati, who have played there since the stadium opened on May 16, 2021.
1.5 km · soccer stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA · Wikipedia - 05Cincinnati Art Museum
The Cincinnati Art Museum is an art museum in the Eden Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies, and is one of the oldest in the United States.
2 km · art museum in Cincinnati, Ohio · Wikipedia - 06Xavier University
Xavier University is a private Jesuit university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the United States.
6.5 km · Jesuit university located in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States · Wikipedia - 07Contemporary Arts Center
The Contemporary Arts Center is a contemporary art museum in Cincinnati, Ohio and one of the first contemporary art institutions in the United States. The CAC is a non-collecting museum that focuses on new developments in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art and new media.
300 m · art gallery in Cincinnati · Wikipedia - 08Carew Tower
Carew Tower is a 49-story, 574-foot Art Deco skyscraper in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The second-tallest building in the city, it was Cincinnati's tallest from 1930 until 2011, when it was surpassed by Great American Tower at Queen City Square.
100 m · skyscraper in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States · Wikipedia - 09Heritage Bank Center
Heritage Bank Center is an indoor arena in downtown Cincinnati, adjacent to Great American Ball Park. It was completed in September 1975 and named Riverfront Coliseum because of its placement next to Riverfront Stadium.
700 m · multipurpose indoor arena in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States · Wikipedia - 10Nippert Stadium
James Gamble Nippert Memorial Stadium is an outdoor stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, located on the campus of University of Cincinnati. Primarily used for American football, it has been home to the Cincinnati Bearcats of the Big 12 Conference in rudimentary form since 1901 and as a permanent concrete stadium since 1915, making it the fourth-oldest playing site and fifth-oldest stadium in college football, respectively.
3.5 km · football stadium at the University of Cincinnati · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Some highlights of the city include a menagerie of museums like the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Taft Museum of Art, the natural history/children's Cincinnati Museum Center, and the American Sign Museum. For more natural experiences, there are the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and Krohn Conservatory.
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Things to do
Cincinnati has quite an impressive assortment of 19th century architecture. Parts of town will remind a visitor of large east coast cities like Boston or Brooklyn. With a renewed interest in the oldest parts of the city there are an increasing number of tours highlighting Cincinnati's golden age when it was one of the largest cities in the US.
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Where to eat
Cincinnati is famous for its unique chili, based on a Macedonian recipe. It contains finely-ground meat, no beans or onions, and usually contains spices such as cinnamon or cocoa powder, and not as much tomato as traditional recipes.
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Getting to Cincinnati
- Airports
- Cincinnati Northern Kentucky (CVG), 15 km · Louisville Muhammad Ali (SDF), 148 km · Indianapolis (IND), 168 km
- Stations
- Cincinnati Union Terminal, 2.5 km · Cincinnati Municipal Lunken Airport, 8.1 km
- Louisville → Cincinnati145 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · $13–18
- Indianapolis → Cincinnati158 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · $14–19
- Columbus → Cincinnati160 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · $14–19
- 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 Cincinnati
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 Cincinnati. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThe following are accessible as day trips: Indianapolis.
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