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Üsküdar

Üsküdar
Üsküdar · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
What is there

Worth seeing in and around Üsküdar

10 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. 01
    Sultan Ahmed Mosque

    Historic mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey, also known as Blue Mosque

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Topkapı Palace

    Palace museum in Istanbul, Turkey

    2.7 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Rams Park

    Football stadium of Galatasaray SK

    9.2 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Süleymaniye Mosque

    Mosque in İstanbul, Turkey

    4.2 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Istanbul University

    Public university in Istanbul, Turkey

    4.3 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Galata Tower

    Historical tower in İstanbul

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bosphorus Bridge

    Bridge in İstanbul, Turkey

    3.1 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Dolmabahçe Palace

    Palace in Istanbul, Turkey

    2.1 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    2017 Istanbul nightclub attack

    Terrorist mass shooting that occurred at a nightclub in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on 1 January 2017

    3.4 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Second Council of Constantinople

    Council of the Christian church held from held from 5 May to 2 June 553

    3 km · 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 Üsküdar

Airports
Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen (SAW), 28 km · İstanbul (IST), 37 km · Hasan Polatkan (AOE), 185 km
  • Eskişehir → Üsküdar
    188 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · ₺495–660
  • Edremit → Üsküdar
    232 km · quickest by road, 4h 31m · ₺640–850
  • Gaziemir → Üsküdar
    340 km · quickest by air, 5h 10m · ₺2,430–3,740
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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 Üsküdar

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFunicular F1 connects its Kabataş station with Taksim on M2 metro.
  • Get inThe Tünel funicular (F2) connects Istiklal Caddesi with Karaköy at the sea level on the Golden Horn.
  • Get inFerries from Kadıköy across the Bosphorus moor at Karaköy and Kabataş, the two largest ferry piers in Galata.
  • Get inThere are also ferries across the Goldern Horn, from Sultanahmet.

From Wikivoyage: Istanbul/Galata, 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
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    284 km
  2. 02
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    363 km
  3. 03
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    407 km
  4. 04
    MykonosGR

    12 ways of moving, 23 sources

    509 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    536 km

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

Around it

Next door to Üsküdar

Üsküdar is 5 km from Şişli, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Istanbullargest city in Turkey4.7 km
  • Byzantiumancient Greek city, precursor of Constantinople2.7 km
  • Kadıköydistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey4.4 km
  • Fatihdistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey5.5 km
  • Beyoğludistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey3.3 km
  • Beşiktaşdistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey6 km