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![Bukhara](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Kalon-Ensemble_Buchara.jpg)

# Bukhara

Bukhara is the seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan by population, with 305,500 residents as of 2026.

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## Every way there

- Samarkand → Bukhara 217 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · $24–33 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/samarkand-to-bukhara) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Samarkand&to=Bukhara)
- Urgench → Bukhara 377 km · quickest by air, 3h 17m · $130–190 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/urgench-to-bukhara) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Urgench&to=Bukhara)
- Tashkent → Bukhara 437 km · quickest by air, 3h 26m · $140–210 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tashkent-to-bukhara) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tashkent&to=Bukhara)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Bukhara, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Bukhara](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bukhara)

What Bukhara has

- Y Scheduled flights Bukhara (BHK), 5 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Kogon Shahri, 12 km.

39.767°, 64.423°

It is the capital of Bukhara Region. Since ancient times, Bukhara was one of the most prosperous cities in Transoxiana alongside neighbouring Samarkand owing to its location on Silk Road. Today its historic core is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Get in

## Getting to Bukhara

1. Bukhara International Airport This has several flights a day from Tashkent, and daily from Urgench, Moscow and Istanbul.
2. Bukhara Railway Station

See

## Worth seeing

1. Synagogue There's been a substantial Jewish community in Bukhara since the 8th century.
2. Magok-i-Attari Mosque The oldest surviving mosque building in Central Asia, dating back to the 800s, reconstructed in the 1500s and now a carpet museum.
3. Khoja Gaukushan A complex similar to Lyab-i Hauz built in 1570, with a mosque, medressah and hauz.
4. Toqi Telpak Furushon This one was the bazaar of the cap-makers.

Do

## Things to do

Hammam Borzi Kord, Mehtar Ambar 55 (within Toqi Telpak Furushon),. Daily 06:00-23:00. Traditional bath house, mornings only for local men then after 14:00 for tourists of mixed gender. Hammom Kunjak, Nurobobod (100 m west of Kalan Mosque),. Daily 09:00-21:00. The women's bathhouse. Most reckon it's an overpriced tourist trap.

Eat

## Where to eat

Sometimes local people invite for dinner to their home (i.e. near Kalyan mosque). Consider this authentic experience and leave locals some money after. Bolo Khauz Teahouse, Afrosiab St (next to Bolo Khauz Mosque). Atmospheric restaurant but touristy prices. Doston House, Kokill Kalon 5 (100 m east of Lyab-i Hauz bus stop),. Daily 12:00-15:00, 18:00-21:00.

How locals move

## Getting around Bukhara the local way

- Get in Shared taxis also arrive here, covering the route in half the time for twice the fare.
- Get in Shared taxis run from Qarshi (90 min), Shakhrisabz (4 hours), Termiz on the Afghan border (6 hours) and Denau (6 hours).
- Get around They're sometimes described as marshrutkas or dolmuşes but they have fixed stops and run to a fixed timetable, though its details are known only unto Allah.

From [Wikivoyage: Bukhara](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Bukhara), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukhara) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Bukhara), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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