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Places in this article: Tashkent
Where to stay in Tashkent: the best areas for a first trip
From Did you know? Tashkent’s Chorsu dome is younger than the city’s metro Trade at the old crossroads is centuries old, but the domed building opened only in 1990, thirteen years after the metro. Architects Vladimir Azimov and Sabir Adylov gave it a main dome of 86 m ringed by seven smaller ones. Read more → in the old city to Tashkent's main railway station is six stops on the blue Did you know? A metro designed to ride out a magnitude-9 earthquake The three original lines of the Tashkent Metro were built to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 9.0, and the tunnels lie unusually shallow, only 8–25 m below the street. Read more → line. Alisher Navoi, the station for the theatre and Tashkent City, is two stops in. Sleep close to that line and most of the city is a short ride away; far from it, every evening starts with a taxi.
We are a tour operator from Tashkent, and we book hotels here for our guests all year round. This is where to stay in Tashkent on a first trip, on a business trip and before an early train, and how we choose the hotel with you.
In short
- First trip: stay in the centre, around Did you know? Legend: “Strength lies in justice” were Timur's own words The equestrian statue of Amir Timur in central Tashkent, unveiled in 1994, bears the motto “Strength lies in justice” in four languages. Tradition attributes the words to Timur himself, but historians cannot confirm he said them. Read more → and the .Did you know? An opera house with a foyer for every region The Alisher Navoi Theatre, opened in 1947, has six halls carved in the styles of Tashkent, Fergana, Bukhara, Samarkand, Khiva and Termez, each led by a master of that school. Read more → Museums, Broadway and the metro are a walk away.
- Evenings and business: Tashkent City, the new district built around a park with a 15-hectare lake and a musical fountain.
- Old city: by Tashkent's old bazaar under a big blue-green dome, not far from Hazrati Imam. Bring cash in so'm. Read more → and ,The religious heart of old Tashkent: madrasahs, a Friday mosque and mausoleums. Right next to it stands the new Center of Islamic Civilization, opened in 2026. Read more → about 4 km from Amir Timur Square, for early mornings at the bazaar.
- Early Uzbekistan's high-speed train: Tashkent to Samarkand in about 2 hours 10 minutes, Tashkent to Bukhara in about 4 hours. Tickets are tied to your passport. Read more → or night flight: a hotel near Tashkent Central station, or simply the centre, since the airport is only about 6 km away.
- Every hotel registers your passport at check-in. We book the room for you, from our list of hotels in Tashkent.
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Contents
The centre: Amir Timur Square and the Navoi Theatre
For a first visit we put most of our guests here. After the 1966 earthquake the centre was rebuilt with wide avenues, parks and modernist buildings, and nine of the ten buildings that UNESCO inscribed as Tashkent modernism in 2026 stand in it.
From a hotel in the centre you walk to Amir Timur Square, to Broadway, the pedestrian street of painters next to it, to the State Museum of History and to the fountain by the Navoi Theatre. Several metro stations are within a few minutes on foot. The square and Broadway stay busy in the evening, so if you sleep lightly, ask for a room facing the courtyard.
From here our guide takes you to the old city and the metro stations on the full-day Tashkent tour. With two days, the Tashkent modernism tour shows the buildings of the UNESCO list around you.
Tashkent City: the new district with the fountain
Between Alisher Navoi Avenue and Islam Karimov Avenue a business district of glass towers has grown up in the last few years. Its heart is Tashkent City Park, opened in October 2019 around an artificial lake of 15 hectares. In the evening a 200-metre musical fountain plays along the water.
This is where the newest high-rise hotels stand, next to the park and the Tashkent City Mall, with the Pakhtakor and Alisher Navoi metro stations within walking distance. The district suits business trips, conference guests and anyone who likes an evening walk by the water. For groups we build the programme around these hotels: see Conference in Tashkent. What to do here after dark is in our guide to Tashkent in the evening.
The old city: Chorsu and Hazrati Imam
The old city around Chorsu bazaar and the Hazrati Imam complex is low houses, mosques and the market under its blue dome of 1990. It lies about 4 km from Amir Timur Square, and Chorsu has its own station on the blue metro line.
Stay here if you want to walk into the bazaar as it opens or see the Hazrati Imam square in the early light. The evenings are quieter than in the centre or Tashkent City. Most of our guests stay in the centre and come here in the morning, by metro or with our guide. More on the bazaar itself is in our Chorsu Bazaar guide.
Before an early train or a night flight
The Afrosiyob to Samarkand leaves from Tashkent Central, the station locals call the North station, and the Toshkent metro station is right next to it. For an early train, a hotel near the station spares you the morning rush. Check your ticket first: most overnight sleepers leave from the South station, about 7 km away.
The airport is inside the city, about 6 km south of the centre, and on a quiet evening a car gets there in 15–20 minutes. So for a night flight you rarely need an airport hotel. Stay in the centre, and our driver takes you to the terminal on a private airport transfer. Changing planes in Tashkent? Our layover guide shows what fits into a few hours.
How we choose and book your hotel
In Tashkent the location and the room matter more than the number of stars. Before we book, we look at how far the hotel is from the metro, whether the car can stop at the door and whether the room faces the street or the courtyard.
The hotel registers your passport at check-in, so you do not have to deal with registration yourself; the details are in registration and customs. Our list of hotels in Tashkent runs from two to five stars. Send us your dates, and the manager confirms the room and the price.
If you travel on with us, the hotel goes straight into the programme: two days in the city with the Tashkent extension, or Tashkent and Samarkand in our Uzbekistan in 3 days tour. Want to sleep in the mountains instead? The Mountains and Spa near Tashkent tour takes you to a resort hotel with a spa in the Beldersay area. For Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, see where to stay in the Silk Road cities.
Tell us your dates and flights, and we will choose the area first and then the hotel that fits your route.
