--- title: "Sarkan – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Sarkan, Iran: Sarkan is a city in the Central District of Tuyserkan County, Hamadan province, Iran. Nearby: Alvand, Jameh Mosque of Sarabi. Every way…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sarkan" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sarkan.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Black_kite_impersonating_an_osprey.jpg/1920px-Black_kite_impersonating_an_osprey.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- City in Hamadan province, Iran # Sarkan Sarkan is a city in the Central District of Tuyserkan County, Hamadan province, Iran. ![Sarkan](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Black_kite_impersonating_an_osprey.jpg/1920px-Black_kite_impersonating_an_osprey.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Sarkan · Prasan Shrestha The place Sarkan is a city in the Central District of Tuyserkan County, Hamadan province, Iran. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarkan), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Sarkan 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. Alvand Alvand is a subrange of the Zagros Mountains in western Iran located 10 km south of the city of Hamadan in Hamadan province. Its summit has an elevation of 3,580 m. 7.7 km · mountain in Iran · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvand) 2. Jameh Mosque of Sarabi The Jameh Mosque of Sarabi is a Shi'ite Friday mosque, located in the Sarabi area of Tuyserkan, in the province of Hamadan, Iran. The mosque was completed during the Qajar era. 7.8 km · Iranian national heritage site · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jameh_Mosque_of_Sarabi) 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 Sarkan **Airports:** Payam (PYK), 252 km · Imam Khomeini (IKA), 262 km · Mehrabad (THR), 287 km\ - Tehran → Sarkan Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tehran-to-sarkan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tehran&to=Sarkan) - Karaj → Sarkan Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/karaj-to-sarkan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Karaj&to=Sarkan) - Ahvaz → Sarkan Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ahvaz-to-sarkan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ahvaz&to=Sarkan) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Sarkan) Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Sarkan 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 Sarkan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yeghegnadzor) AM 9 ways of moving, 32 sources 637 km 2. [Sheki (Şəki)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sheki) AZ 10 ways of moving, 46 sources 742 km 3. [Gyumri](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gyumri) AM 12 ways of moving, 47 sources 798 km 4. [Vardzia and the Javakheti plateau](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vardzia) GE 12 ways of moving, 57 sources 879 km 5. [Gori](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gori) GE 10 ways of moving, 16 sources 904 km If you know how people move in Sarkan – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Csarkan&title=Sarkan&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fsarkan), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Sarkan Sarkan is 23 km from [Hamadān](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hamadan), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Tuyserkan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tuyserkan) city in Hamadan Province, Iran 5.6 km - [Shah Zeyd](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shah-zeyd) village in Iran 7.8 km - [Kolanjan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kolanjan) village in Iran 5.3 km - [Rivasijan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/rivasijan) village in Iran 3.2 km - [Rud Avar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/rud-avar) village in Iran 6.7 km - [Sanjuzan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sanjuzan) village in Iran 8 km [The place page for Sarkan](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/sarkan) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Iran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IR) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sarkan, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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