Otopeni
Otopeni is a town in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, neighbouring the north of Bucharest along the DN1 road to Ploiești.

Otopeni is a town in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, neighbouring the north of Bucharest along the DN1 road to Ploiești. It has 21,750 inhabitants, of which 99.0% are ethnic Romanians. One village, Odăile, is administered by the city.
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Worth seeing in and around Otopeni
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.
- 01Zoo Băneasa
Zoo Băneasa is a zoo in Bucharest, Romania, located in the northern district of the city called Băneasa. The park was founded in 1955 as a service of the Municipal Household Section of the People's Council of the Capital.
4.5 km · zoo in Romania · Wikipedia - 02Băneasa Shopping City
Băneasa Shopping City is a shopping center in the north of Bucharest, Romania, opened on 18 April 2008. Located in the Băneasa neighborhood of Sector 1, it is part of the Băneasa Developments owned by Aurel Gabriel Popoviciu and Radu Timofte.
5 km · shopping mall in Bucharest, Romania · Wikipedia
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Getting to Otopeni
- Airports
- Bucharest Henri Coandă (OTP), 4 km · Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu (BBU), 6 km · Brașov-Ghimbav (GHV), 135 km
- Stations
- Henri Coandă International Airport, 2.5 km · Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport, 5.8 km
- Brașov (Ghimbav) → Otopeni131 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · lei37–49
- Craiova → Otopeni182 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · lei55–75
- Constanța → Otopeni208 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · lei55–70
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Otopeni
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 Otopeni. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt's also possible to reach Mogoşoaia by minibus (the ones heading to Buftea or to Ploieşti via Buftea); they leave several times per hour from an area just east of Gara de Nord train station.
- Get aroundThe palace is a 600 meters walk from the main road where the buses and minibuses stop.
From Wikivoyage: Mogoșoaia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Otopeni
Otopeni is 13 km from Sector 6, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.