Esenler
Esenler is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.
Esenler is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 43 km2, and its population is 445,421 (2022). It is on its European side. Esenler is mainly densely packed, working class residential in the midst of its industrial neighbouring districts of Gaziosmanpaşa, Güngören and Bağcılar. The mayor is Tevfik Göksu.
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Getting to Esenler
- Airports
- İstanbul (IST), 30 km · Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen (SAW), 38 km · Hasan Polatkan (AOE), 194 km
- Eskişehir → Esenler198 km · quickest by road, 4h 38m · ₺520–700
- Edremit → Esenler226 km · quickest by road, 4h 47m · ₺670–890
- Gaziemir → Esenler337 km · quickest by air, 4h 47m · ₺2,520–3,910
- 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 Esenler
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 Esenler. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe main dolmuş routes, which run virtually round the clock, are from Taksim to Bakırköy, Ataköy and Yeşilköy.
- Get inThere are several ferry routes connecting piers along the coast with central and eastern Istanbul.
From Wikivoyage: Istanbul/Western Suburbs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Esenler
Esenler is 3 km from Bağcılar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.