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

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.
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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.
- 01KayseRay
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 - 02Abdullah 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 - 03Kayseri 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 - 04Kayseri 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 - 05Köşkmedrese
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 - 06Kayseri 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 - 07Mounted 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 → Kocasinan76 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · ₺165–220
- Tarsus → Kocasinan215 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · ₺530–700
- Ankara → Kocasinan266 km · quickest by road, 4h 44m · ₺640–850
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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 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.
- 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.
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- Kaysericity in Turkey1.3 km
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- Sahabiye Madrasamadrasa in Kocasinan District1.1 km