--- title: "Leysin – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Leysin, Switzerland: Leysin is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in the Aigle district of Switzerland. Nearby: Aigle Castle, Berneuse, Fort de…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leysin" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leysin.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Leysin_seen_from_Le_Chamossaire%2C_Villars-sur-Ollon%2C_Ollon%2C_Vaud.jpg/1920px-Leysin_seen_from_Le_Chamossaire%2C_Villars-sur-Ollon%2C_Ollon%2C_Vaud.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Municipality in Vaud, Switzerland # Leysin Leysin is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in the Aigle district of Switzerland. ![Leysin](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Leysin_seen_from_Le_Chamossaire%2C_Villars-sur-Ollon%2C_Ollon%2C_Vaud.jpg/1920px-Leysin_seen_from_Le_Chamossaire%2C_Villars-sur-Ollon%2C_Ollon%2C_Vaud.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Leysin · Christian David The place Leysin is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in the Aigle district of Switzerland. It is first mentioned around 1231–32 as Leissins, in 1352 as Leisins. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leysin), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Leysin 3 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. Aigle Castle Aigle Castle is a castle in the municipality of Aigle of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. 2.7 km · castle in Aigle in Canton of Vaud, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigle_Castle) 2. Berneuse The Berneuse is a mountain of the western Bernese Alps, above Leysin in the canton of Vaud. It lies on the range east of the Rhone valley, culminating at the Tour d'Aï. 2.9 km · mountain · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berneuse) 3. Fort de Champillon The Fort de Champillon is a twentieth-century Swiss fortification located in the heights overlooking the Rhône valley from the north between Montreux and Monthey. Completed in 1944, the fort secures the road and rail lines running east from Lausanne to the mountainous interior of Switzerland. 3.7 km · artillery fort in Corbeyrier, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_de_Champillon) 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. See ## What Wikivoyage says to see People mainly come to Leysin to Do things like skiing, mountain biking, or horseback riding. That said, there are a couple of sites worthwhile for the casual traveler, even on a lunchtime excursion from Montreux or Lausanne The Berneuse Cable-Car, Place Large, about 100m east from the Leysin-Feydey station, info@teleleysin.ch. Open daily sunrise to sunset. From [Wikivoyage: Leysin](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Leysin), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Do ## Things to do Ski, access to most runs from the Berneuse ski station, Place Large. +41 24 494 16 35. If you are a total beginner of course it's best to take classes, but if you just want to brush up before you go for the gusto you should check out the beginner's slope just above the ski station which costs only Fr. 14 to use. It's a bit hard to find at first, so don't be afraid to ask. From [Wikivoyage: Leysin](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Leysin), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Eat ## Where to eat Kuklos, at the top of the Berneuse, accessible by cable-car. +41 24 494 31 41. Built to replace a Châlet which burned down in 1984, this revolving restaurant will be known by most winter-time visitors as a ski-lunch stop, but the real time to enjoy the restaurant is during the summer, when they (and the cable car) are open evenings for intimate classical and folk music concerts with a set menu dinner. From [Wikivoyage: Leysin](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Leysin), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Go there ## Getting to Leysin **Airports:** Geneva (GVA), 69 km · Turin (TRN), 136 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 146 km\ **Stations:** Aigle railway station, 3.3 km\ - Geneva → Leysin 68 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · CHF13–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-leysin) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Leysin) - Zurich → Leysin 163 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · CHF25–33 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-leysin) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Leysin) - Caselle Torinese (TO) → Leysin 139 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · €23–32 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/caselle-torinese-to-to-leysin) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Caselle+Torinese+%28TO%29&to=Leysin) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Leysin) 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 Leysin 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 Leysin. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around The TeleLeysin cable car \[http://www.teleleysin.ch\] runs both summer and winter. From [Wikivoyage: Leysin](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Leysin), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 67 km 2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 324 km 3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 779 km 4. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 785 km 5. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 829 km If you know how people move in Leysin – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cleysin&title=Leysin&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fleysin), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Leysin - [Aigle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aigle) town and municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 3.3 km - [Yvorne](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yvorne) municipality in Switzerland 3.8 km [The place page for Leysin](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/leysin) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Switzerland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-CH) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leysin, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt