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Yrshek

Yrshek is a village in the former municipality of Kashar in Tirana County, Albania.

The place

Yrshek is a village in the former municipality of Kashar in Tirana County, Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Tirana.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Yrshek

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. 01
    Agricultural University of Tirana

    The Agricultural University of Tirana is a public university located in Tirana, Albania. It offers education in agronomy, veterinary, forestry, ecology, agribusiness, and similar subjects.

    2.2 km · university in Tirana, Albania · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kamëz Stadium

    The Kamëz Stadium is a sports stadium in Kamëz, Tirana County, Albania. The ground is owned and managed by the Municipality of Kamëz, and it is the home ground of Kamza 05 and Kastrioti.

    4 km · Albanian sports stadium · 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.

Go there

Getting to Yrshek

Airports
Tirana Mother Teresa (TIA), 8 km · Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle (OHD), 85 km · Podgorica / Podgorica Golubovci Airbase (TGD), 120 km
Stations
Kashar Railway Station, 1.2 km
  • Ohrid → Yrshek
    92 km · quickest by road, 3h 43m · $11–15
  • Podgorica → Yrshek
    128 km · quickest by road, 4h · $12–17
  • Ilinden → Yrshek
    169 km · quickest by road, 5h 14m · $23–32
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Yrshek

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inShared taxis (mini-busses) are also an option to go to Albania from Ulcinj.
  • Get inJust make sure you don't delay, as the furgon (minibus) to Gjirokastra won't wait for one extra passenger and you will be forced to haggle with predatory cab drivers.
  • Get inFerries to Durrës arrive from Bari (9 hr, daily, €50), Ancona (19 hr, triweekly, €70) and Trieste (14 hr, weekly, only during high season).
  • Get inFull price information A high-speed service operates from Bari (3 hr, €60).[http://www.apdurres.com.al] There is also a reliable overnight ferry service operated by European Seaways from Brindisi to Vlore.
  • Get inFerries from Corfu to Saranda every day.[http://www.portisarande.com.al] Ferry between Brindisi and Shengjin by A-Ships operating year round.

From Wikivoyage: Albania, 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
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    240 km
  2. 02
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    280 km
  3. 03
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    335 km
  4. 04
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    408 km
  5. 05
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    420 km

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

Around it

Next door to Yrshek

Yrshek is 6 km from Tirana, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • KamëzCity in Albania.4 km
  • Laprakëneighbourhood of Tirana, Albania3.9 km
  • Mezezvillage in Tirana, Albania2.3 km
  • Yzberishtvillage in Albania4 km
  • Domjevillage in Tirana, Albania3.3 km
  • Gropajvillage in Tirana, Albania2.3 km