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Oosthem

Oosthem is a village in Súdwest-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

Oosthem
Oosthem · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Oosthem is a village in Súdwest-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 420 in January 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Oosthem

One place 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
    Ylostins

    The Ylostins was a Frisian castle or a so-called stins in the city of IJlst, Friesland, Netherlands

    2.1 km · castle in Drylts, 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 Oosthem

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 66 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 97 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 142 km
Stations
Sneek railway station, 3.9 km · IJlst railway station, 1.1 km
  • Groningen → Oosthem
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · €9–12
  • Amsterdam → Oosthem
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · €12–17
  • Rotterdam → Oosthem
    143 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · €19–27
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Oosthem

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThe old harbour town of Harlingen is 30 minutes away, and is also the ferry terminal for services to the Wadden islands of Vlieland and Terschelling.

From Wikivoyage: Bolsward, 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
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    50 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    540 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    568 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    730 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    752 km

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

Around it

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