--- title: "Leysin – what to see, and every way to get there | Mixroutes" description: "How to get to Leysin from Geneva, Zurich and Caselle Torinese (TO): every way compared, with today's quickest and its fare. Leysin is a municipality of…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/leysin" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/leysin.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Leysin_seen_from_Le_Chamossaire%2C_Villars-sur-Ollon%2C_Ollon%2C_Vaud.jpg/1920px-Leysin_seen_from_Le_Chamossaire%2C_Villars-sur-Ollon%2C_Ollon%2C_Vaud.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- ![Leysin](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Leysin_seen_from_Le_Chamossaire%2C_Villars-sur-Ollon%2C_Ollon%2C_Vaud.jpg/1920px-Leysin_seen_from_Le_Chamossaire%2C_Villars-sur-Ollon%2C_Ollon%2C_Vaud.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) # Leysin Leysin is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in the Aigle district of Switzerland. [Plan a trip to Leysin](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Leysin) [From Geneva](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Leysin) ## Every way there - Geneva → Leysin 68 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · CHF13–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-leysin) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Leysin) - Zurich → Leysin 163 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · CHF25–33 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-leysin) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Leysin) - Caselle Torinese (TO) → Leysin 139 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · €23–32 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/caselle-torinese-to-to-leysin) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Caselle+Torinese+%28TO%29&to=Leysin) 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 Leysin, 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 Leysin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leysin) What Leysin has - Y Scheduled flights Geneva (GVA), 69 km - Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 2 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time - Y Ferries Villeneuve, 9 km, Compagnie générale de navigation sur le lac Léman (CGN); sailings estimated - Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band - N Bike and scooter share 1 share feeds in Transitous, not surfaced yet - N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. 46.333°, 7.000° It is first mentioned around 1231–32 as Leissins, in 1352 as Leisins. Get in ## Getting to Leysin Leysin is served by the TPC (Transportes Publics du Chablais) which has a cog-wheel train which runs once per hour from the Aigle station, which is timed to connect with the main Swiss National trains arriving from Montreux on the Geneva-Brig line. On certain dates during the ski season there are direct TGV trains from Paris to Brig offering the same connection at Aigle. See ## Worth seeing People mainly come to Leysin to Do things like skiing, mountain biking, or horseback riding. That said, there are a couple of sites worthwhile for the casual traveler, even on a lunchtime excursion from Montreux or Lausanne The Berneuse Cable-Car, Place Large, about 100m east from the Leysin-Feydey station, info@teleleysin.ch. Open daily sunrise to sunset. Do ## Things to do Ski, access to most runs from the Berneuse ski station, Place Large. +41 24 494 16 35. If you are a total beginner of course it's best to take classes, but if you just want to brush up before you go for the gusto you should check out the beginner's slope just above the ski station which costs only Fr. 14 to use. It's a bit hard to find at first, so don't be afraid to ask. Eat ## Where to eat Kuklos, at the top of the Berneuse, accessible by cable-car. +41 24 494 31 41. Built to replace a Châlet which burned down in 1984, this revolving restaurant will be known by most winter-time visitors as a ski-lunch stop, but the real time to enjoy the restaurant is during the summer, when they (and the cable car) are open evenings for intimate classical and folk music concerts with a set menu dinner. How locals move ## Getting around Leysin the local way - Get around The TeleLeysin cable car \[http://www.teleleysin.ch\] runs both summer and winter. From [Wikivoyage: Leysin](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Leysin), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2025-07. Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leysin) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Leysin), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Christian David (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons. --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/places/leysin, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt