Insein Township
Insein Township is located in northern Yangon.
Insein Township is located in northern Yangon. The township comprises 21 wards, and shares borders with Shwepyitha township in the north, Hlaingthaya township in the west, Mingaladon township in the east and Mayangon township in the south. Insein is home to the Insein Prison, the most notorious prison in the country that houses hundreds of political prisoners.
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Worth seeing in and around Insein Township
5 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.
- 01Yangon Technological University
Yangon Technological University is the premier engineering university of Myanmar. It is located in Insein, Yangon.
2.8 km · university in Myanmar · Wikipedia - 02Kyauktawgyi Buddha Temple
Kyauktawgyi Buddha Temple is a Buddhist temple located on Mindhamma Hill on Insein Township, Yangon, Burma. The temple houses a 37 feet tall Buddha called the Loka Chantha Abhaya Labha Muni, which is carved out of a single piece of white marble quarried in Sagyin Hill, Madaya Township, Mandalay Region.
2.8 km · Buddhist temple in Yangon, Myanmar · Wikipedia - 03University of Medical Technology, Yangon
The University of Medical Technology, Yangon [sʰébɛʔ sʰàɪɰ̃jà nípjɪ̀ɰ̃ɲà tɛʔkəθò ]; formerly, the Institute of Paramedical Science, Yangon) is one of two universities of medical technology in Myanmar. The university offers four-year Bachelor of Medical Technology and two-year Master of Medical Technology degree programs in physiotherapy, medical laboratory technology and medical imaging technology.
2.6 km · higher education institute in Yangon, Myanmar · Wikipedia - 04West Yangon Technological University
West Yangon Technological University is a public technology university, located in Hlaingthaya, Yangon, Myanmar. WYTU is the third-best engineering university in Myanmar after Yangon Technological University and Mandalay Technological University.
2.7 km · higher education institute in Yangon, Myanmar · Wikipedia - 05Bayinnaung Market
Bayinnaung Market, located in northwestern Yangon, is the largest agricultural commodities trading market in Myanmar. The market complex measures 17.880 acres, consisting of 2,549 two-story shop houses with floor areas of 1,200 and 2,400 square feet.
3.1 km · shopping mall in Yangon Division, Myanmar · Wikipedia
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Getting to Insein Township
- Airports
- Yangon (RGN), 4 km
- Stations
- Insein Railway Station, 1.3 km
- Naypyitaw → Insein Township421 km · quickest by road, 10h 40m · $50–70
- Mandalay → Insein Township240 km · quickest by road, 6h 51m · $30–41
- Chiang Mai → Insein Township697 km · quickest by road, 22h 19m · ฿1,870–2,490
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Insein Township
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 Insein Township. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAncient buses ferry passengers to their aircraft.
- Get in150 years ago, boats were the way to get to places from Yangon and IWT (Inland Water Transport) passenger ferries still ply the major rivers.
- Get inThe ferry leaves Pyay every Friday at 06:30 and arrives in Yangon on Sunday at 21:40.
- Get inA luxury ferry (the Delta Queen) recalls the colonial era on the Yangon-Pathein route (about 20 hr, US$170/person).
- Get inThe IWT ferry to Pathein takes 15 hr for the overnight trip (US$35/10).
From Wikivoyage: Yangon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Insein Township
Insein Township is 6 km from Hlaingthaya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Insein Districtdistrict in Yangon Region, Myanmar1.1 km
- Mayangon Districtdistrict in Yangon, Myanmar3.5 km
- Hlaingthaya East Townshiptownship in Yangon, Myanmar3.8 km