Houten
Houten is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.
Houten is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Houten
One place 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.
- 01Dutch Water Defence Lines
The Dutch Water Defence lines is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Netherlands comprising the New Dutch Waterline and Stelling van Amsterdam. The Stelling van Amsterdam was added as a World Heritage Site in 1996, and was extended in 2021 with the New Dutch Waterline in 2021.
2.8 km · World Heritage site in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Houten
- Airports
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 41 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 51 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 66 km
- Stations
- Houten railway station, 100 m · Houten Castellum railway station, 2 km · Utrecht Lunetten railway station, 3.9 km · Bunnik railway station, 3.8 km
- Amsterdam → Houten43 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · €5–7
- Rotterdam → Houten49 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · €6–9
- Eindhoven → Houten69 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · €8–11
- 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 Houten
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 Houten. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere is also a small ferry (pedestrians/cyclists €1.25/€1.75) across the river Lek to Vianen.
- Go nextUtrecht IJsselstein Vianen is a short ferry ride away across the river (or a short bicycle, car or bus ride across the motorway bridge)
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Next door to Houten
Houten is 7 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.