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Jirnsum

Jirnsum is a village in Leeuwarden municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

Jirnsum
Jirnsum · Agnes Monkelbaan
The place

Jirnsum is a village in Leeuwarden municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 1,360 in January 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Jirnsum

2 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
    Prinses Margrietkanaal

    The Prinses Margriet Canal is a canal in Friesland, Netherlands. It is now part of the Lemmer–Delfzijl Waterway, that forms an inland connection between Rotterdam and northern Germany.

    2 km · canal in Friesland, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Protestant church of Grou

    The Protestant church of Grou or Saint Peter's church is a religious building in Grou, Netherlands, one of the many medieval churches in Friesland. The Romanesque church was built in the first half of the 13th century out of tuffstone.

    3.9 km · church building in Boarnsterhim, 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.

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Getting to Jirnsum

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 53 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 110 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 155 km
Stations
Grou-Jirnsum railway station, 2.4 km
  • Groningen → Jirnsum
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · €7–10
  • Amsterdam → Jirnsum
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · €14–19
  • Rotterdam → Jirnsum
    156 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · €21–29
  • 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 Jirnsum

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere is a ferry running from Enkhuizen in Noord Holland to Stavoren.
  • Get inIn the summer the ferry runs up to three times daily, but in April and October not as frequent.

From Wikivoyage: Friesland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    58 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    554 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    554 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    744 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    760 km

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

Around it

Next door to Jirnsum

  • Grouvillage in Leeuwarden, Netherlands3.6 km
  • Tersoalvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3.6 km
  • Raerdvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3.1 km
  • Friensvillage in Leeuwarden, Netherlands2.4 km
  • Poppenwiervillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3 km