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IJlst

IJlst is a city in Friesland, Netherlands.

IJlst
IJlst · Wikimedia Commons
The place

IJlst is a city in Friesland, Netherlands. It is located about 3 km southwest of Sneek. It lies within the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân and had a population of approximately 3,140 in January 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around IJlst

4 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
    Protestant church of Bolsward

    St. Martin's Church is a Protestant church in Bolsward, Netherlands, and one of the medieval churches in Friesland.

    8 km · church building in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Protestant church of Boazum

    The Protestant church of Boazum or Saint Martin's church is a medieval religious building in Boazum, Friesland, Netherlands. It is a late 12th century Romanesque church with inner walls of brick and outer walls of tuffstone with a 13th-century tower built out of yellow and red brick.

    9.7 km · church · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Fries Scheepvaart Museum

    The Fries Scheepvaart Museum is a maritime museum in the Kleinzand area of Sneek, Netherlands. Located in the province of Friesland, it contains a library, film viewing room, and focuses on local seafaring life.

    3.6 km · museum · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ylostins

    The Ylostins was a Frisian castle or a so-called stins in the city of IJlst, Friesland, Netherlands

    1.3 km · castle in Drylts, Netherlands · 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 IJlst

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 65 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 97 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 142 km
Stations
Sneek railway station, 2.9 km · IJlst railway station, 200 m · Sneek Noord railway station, 4 km
  • Groningen → IJlst
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · €8–12
  • Amsterdam → IJlst
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · €13–18
  • Rotterdam → IJlst
    144 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · €19–27
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for IJlst

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThe old harbour town of Harlingen is 30 minutes away, and is also the ferry terminal for services to the Wadden islands of Vlieland and Terschelling.

From Wikivoyage: Bolsward, 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
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    51 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    541 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    567 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    731 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    753 km

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

Around it

Next door to IJlst

  • Sneektown in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3.4 km
  • Súdwest-FryslânDutch municipality in Friesland5.2 km
  • Bolswardtown in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands8.1 km
  • Oudegavillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands5.3 km
  • Goëngavillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands6.6 km
  • Ysbrechtumvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands2.9 km