--- title: "Otopeni – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Otopeni, Romania: Otopeni is a town in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, neighbouring the north of Bucharest along the DN1 road to Ploiești. Nearby: Zoo…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/otopeni" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/otopeni.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/20140703_leaving_Otopeni_09.jpg/3840px-20140703_leaving_Otopeni_09.jpg" --- Town in Ilfov, Romania # Otopeni Otopeni is a town in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, neighbouring the north of Bucharest along the DN1 road to Ploiești. ![Otopeni](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/20140703_leaving_Otopeni_09.jpg/3840px-20140703_leaving_Otopeni_09.jpg) Otopeni · Wikimedia Commons The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otopeni), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Zoo 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_B%C4%83neasa) 2. Băneasa 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%83neasa_Shopping_City) 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. Go there ## 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) → Otopeni 131 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · lei37–49 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/brasov-ghimbav-to-otopeni) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bra%C8%99ov+%28Ghimbav%29&to=Otopeni) - Craiova → Otopeni 182 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · lei55–75 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/craiova-to-otopeni) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Craiova&to=Otopeni) - Constanța → Otopeni 208 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · lei55–70 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/constanta-to-otopeni) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Constan%C8%9Ba&to=Otopeni) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Otopeni) 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 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in It'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 around The palace is a 600 meters walk from the main road where the buses and minibuses stop. From [Wikivoyage: Mogoșoaia](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mogo%C8%99oaia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Thasos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/thasos) GR 10 ways of moving, 17 sources 434 km 2. [Gökçeada](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gokceada) TR 11 ways of moving, 39 sources 488 km 3. [Mount Athos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mount-athos) GR 9 ways of moving, 21 sources 509 km 4. [Mljet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mljet) HR 9 ways of moving, 28 sources 717 km 5. [Korčula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/korcula) HR 9 ways of moving, 33 sources 739 km If you know how people move in Otopeni – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cotopeni&title=Otopeni&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fotopeni), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Otopeni Otopeni is 13 km from [Sector 6](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sector-6), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. 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