İpekyolu
İpekyolu is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey.
İpekyolu is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey. Its area is 956 km2, and its population is 348,046 (2022). The district İpekyolu was created at the 2013 reorganisation from part of the former central district of Van, along with the new district Tuşba. It covers the central and eastern part of the agglomeration of Van and the adjacent countryside. The name İpekyolu means Silk Road; Van was an important stop on the Silk Road.
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Worth seeing in and around İpekyolu
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.
- 01Urartu
Urartu was an ancient civilization and Iron Age kingdom centered on the Armenian highlands between Lake Van, Lake Urmia, and Lake Sevan. The territory of the ancient kingdom of Urartu extended over the modern frontiers of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Armenia.
3.8 km · Iron Age kingdom located in a large region around Lake Van · Wikipedia
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Getting to İpekyolu
- Airports
- Nakhchivan (NAJ), 200 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 208 km · Erbil (EBL), 254 km
- Stations
- Van Ferit Melen Airport, 1.1 km
- Nakhchivan → İpekyoluTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Ganja → İpekyolu351 km · quickest by road, 12h 43m · $55–75
- Baku → İpekyolu595 km · quickest by road, 13h 16m · $60–85
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No local-transport research exists yet for İpekyolu
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 İpekyolu. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThey leave Tehran W & Su at 12:30 for Tabriz at 01:30, then four hours of border procedures at Razi / Kapıköy, to arrive at Van ferry pier at 11:00.
- Get inThis is the main station, the ferry pier is not shown as a separate station.
- Get inFerries across the lake from Tatvan sail infrequently and irregularly and take 4 hours.
- Get aroundFor the castle and museum take a dolmuş signed "Kale", which means castle but also refers to the sprawling suburb north of it.
- Get aroundA dolmuş ride costs 20 TL in 2025, pay the driver as you get in.
From Wikivoyage: Van, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to İpekyolu
İpekyolu is 5 km from Van, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Tushparuined capital city of Urartu3.8 km