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# Odense

Odense is the third largest city in Denmark and the largest city on the island of Funen.

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## Every way there

- Billund → Odense 89 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · kr70–95 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/billund-to-odense) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Billund&to=Odense)
- Aarhus → Odense 85 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · kr100–130 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/aarhus-to-odense) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Aarhus&to=Odense)
- Copenhagen → Odense 140 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · kr110–150 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/copenhagen-to-odense) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Copenhagen&to=Odense)

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

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What Odense has

- Y Scheduled flights Odense (ODE), 10 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 1 timetable feed for this country, 1 with real-time
- 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.

55.396°, 10.389°

As of 1 January 2026, the city proper had a population of 187,558 while Odense Municipality had a population of 213,168, making it the fourth largest municipality in Denmark. Eurostat and OECD have used a definition for the Metropolitan area of Odense, which includes all municipalities in the Province of Funen, with a total population of 504,066 as of 1 July 2022.

Get in

## Getting to Odense

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1. Hans Christian Andersen Airport The small airfield has been reduced to handling periodic charter flights for package holiday operators.

See

## Worth seeing

1. Brandts Klædefabrik
2. Hans Christian Andersen Museum
3. Danish Railway Museum Dannebrogsgade 24, fax: +45 66 19 02 20, jbmuseum@dsb.dk.
4. Hans Christian Andersen's House Hans Jensens Stræde 45, museum@odense.dk.
5. Hans Christian Andersen's Garden Large flower arrangements, a river and an ice cream shop make this park an ideal location for a picnic.
6. Odense Zoo One Denmark's biggest tourist attractions is the Odense zoo, covering almost 4 hectares on both sides the Odense River.

Do

## Things to do

1. Odense Golfklub Green fees: M-Th 275 kr, weekends and holidays 325 kr.
2. Odense Go-Kart-Hal Cikorievej 32, fax: +45 70 25 02 20, info@gokart-hal.dk.

Eat

## Where to eat

1. Emils Hot House Happy Chicken, Vestergade 17 (next to the Town Hall),.
2. Cafe du Nord Vestergade 20 (near the Town Hall),.
3. Cuckoo's Nest Stylish but relaxed cafe-bar in the front, with a courtyard restaurant in the back.
4. Restaurant Hans Christian Claus Bergsgade 7 (near Odense Train Station).
5. Café Chino Brandts Passage 6-8, chino@cafechino.dk.

How locals move

## Getting around Odense the local way

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- Get around If you have not brought your own bike, the company Donkey Republic rent out bikes through an app.

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

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


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