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District and municipality in Kayseri, Turkey

Kocasinan

Kocasinan is a municipality and district of Kayseri Province, Turkey.

Kocasinan
Kocasinan · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kocasinan is a municipality and district of Kayseri Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,471 km2, and its population is 409,005 (2022). It covers the northern part of the agglomeration of Kayseri and the adjacent countryside.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kocasinan

7 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
    KayseRay

    Kayseray is a light rail street-tram system operating in the city of Kayseri in Turkey. The tracks and station structures were completed and the line opened in 2009.

    1.3 km · light rail in Kayseri · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Abdullah Gül University

    Abdullah Gül University is a public university located in Kayseri, Turkey. Established in 2010, Abdullah Gül University the university began admitting students in the 2013–2014 academic year.

    900 m · state university in Kayseri, Turkey · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kayseri Archaeology Museum

    Kayseri Archaeology Museum is a museum in Kayseri, Turkey. Kayseri Archeology Museum, which has been serving here for about 50 years, has been moved to the new museum building within the Kayseri Castle and has been opened to visitors since 19 October 2019.

    1.5 km · Museum in Kayseri, Turkey · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kayseri Castle

    Kayseri Castle is a castle built in antiquity and first mentioned in a coin during the rule of Gordian III between 238 and 244 AD. It went through multiple additions starting with the Romans, continuing with the Byzantines, Danishmends, Seljuqs, Dulqadirs, Karamanids, and Ottomans. The castle, located in the eponymous city, is made of an inner and an outer section with a total of 18 towers.

    1.4 km · castle in Kayseri, Turkey · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Köşkmedrese

    Köşkmedrese is a khanqah located on Mount Köşk to the southeast of the city of Kayseri in central Turkey. According to the inscriptions on the building that ceased to exist, it was built by Eretna in memory of his consort Suli Pasha in 1339.

    3 km · building in Kayseri, Turkey · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kayseri Atatürk Stadium

    Kayseri Atatürk Stadium, opened in 1960, was a multi-purpose stadium in Kayseri, Turkey. It was mainly used for football matches, and was shared by the two largest clubs in the region, Kayserispor who currently play in the Süper Lig and Kayseri Erciyesspor who became dissolved.

    1.6 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Mounted Atatürk Monument

    The Mounted Atatürk Monument Süvari Atatürk Anıtı is as equestrian statue of Atatürk by Gürdal Duyar that was erected in 1974 on the Republic Square in Kayseri. It was covered in a tarp for years and was later moved to the Kültürpark.

    1.3 km · statue in Kayseri, Turkey · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kocasinan

Airports
Kayseri Erkilet (ASR), 4 km · Nevşehir Kapadokya (NAV), 82 km · Çukurova (COV), 208 km
Stations
Kayseri railway station, 600 m
  • Nevşehir → Kocasinan
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · ₺165–220
  • Tarsus → Kocasinan
    215 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · ₺530–700
  • Ankara → Kocasinan
    266 km · quickest by road, 4h 44m · ₺640–850
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kocasinan

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThey continue east to Sivas (another 4 hours) then diverge: via Malatya and Elazığ to Tatvan (Vangölü Ekspresi), with dolmus connections to Van, for the train to Tabriz and Tehran.

From Wikivoyage: Kayseri, 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
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    595 km
  2. 02
    AbkhaziaGE

    10 ways of moving, 23 sources

    665 km
  3. 03
    Jvari and the Enguri valleyGE

    10 ways of moving, 37 sources

    708 km
  4. 04
    KutaisiGE

    9 ways of moving, 40 sources

    724 km
  5. 05
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    726 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kocasinan