İzmir
Worth seeing in and around İzmir
10 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.
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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.
Getting to İzmir
- Airports
- Adnan Menderes (ADB), 13 km · Balıkesir Koca Seyit (EDO), 127 km · Milas Bodrum (BJV), 137 km
- Stations
- Port of İzmir, 3.5 km · Basmane railway station, 1.2 km · Alsancak railway station, 3 km · ESBAŞ railway station, 8.4 km · Gaziemir railway station, 9.6 km
- Edremit → İzmir132 km · quickest by road, 3h · ₺365–485
- Bodrum → İzmir155 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · ₺420–560
- Dalaman → İzmir234 km · quickest by road, 4h 35m · ₺520–700
- 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 İzmir
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 İzmir. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in6 Eylül Ekspresi ("6th of September Express"), 6½ hr daily from Bandırma (with ferries from Istanbul) via Balıkesir and Soma, departing around 08:00.
- Get inAs of 2024 there are no ferries to Izmir beyond local services round the bay; no blame attaches to Scylla or Charybdis.
- Get inSee Çeşme#By boat for the ferry from Chios.
- Get aroundİzmirim Kart is the contactless smart card used for all modes of public transport, available from multiple locations including the airport, ferry piers, and railway and metro stations.
- Get aroundIZBAN railway (shown in green) runs north-south: South Line runs from Tepeköy (for Torbali) in the south via the airport and Menderes town to Hilal (for Metro) and Alsancak (for trams, city ferries and the North Line).
From Wikivoyage: Izmir, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in İzmir – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to İzmir
İzmir is 3 km from Karabağlar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Karşıyaka districtdistrict of İzmir, western Turkey7.7 km
- Smyrnaancient Greek city, located in present day İzmir, Turkey800 m
- Konakdistrict of İzmir Province in Turkey1.1 km
- Gaziemir districtdistrict of İzmir, western Turkey9.7 km
- Buca districtdistrict of İzmir, western Turkey4 km
- Bayraklı districtdistrict of İzmir, western Turkey6 km