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Things worth doing, places worth discovering and experiences recommended by people who actually live here.
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The painted timber houses of Odunpazarı
A hill of ochre, blue and rose Ottoman houses with their upper floors leaning over the lanes — the town Eskişehir grew out of, and still the first walk.
Kurşunlu, the meerschaum museum and the carvers of Atlıhan
A sixteenth-century mosque complex under lead domes, and the soft white stone the city carves into pipes.
Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM)
Kengo Kuma's stack of timber boxes in the middle of the Ottoman quarter — a serious contemporary art museum in a city of students.
Çibörek, the city's Crimean Tatar pastry
A thin half-moon pastry with raw mince sealed inside, fried in seconds so the meat steams in its own juice — eat it with your hands and lean forward.
The Porsuk: footbridges, boats and the riverside evening
A slow river through the middle of town, crossed by a dozen footbridges, with tour boats, gondolas and half the city walking beside it after dark.
Barlar Sokağı and the Adalar: the student night out
A bar street in a city of students — cheap pints, live bands, shouting over music and a crowd that is mostly under thirty.
What kind of Eskişehir are you looking for?
Same city, very different trips.
Eskişehir today
Eskişehir after dark
The second shift is just getting started.
A night with the city symphony or the City Theatres
A municipal orchestra and a theatre company that fill their halls all season — Eskişehir's culture-city reputation, earned on stage.
Balaban, met helvası and the rest of the Eskişehir table
Meatballs on butter-soaked bread under tomato and yogurt, a pulled halva that isn't the tahini kind, and a simit with its own protected name.
Hamamyolu and the hot-water baths
A long pedestrian park strip over the city's hot springs, with old neighbourhood hamams on either side — the centre's everyday evening walk.
Where to start
A hand-picked few — not enough saves yet to rank Eskişehir by what members love.
Eskişehir Collections
Eat Well
Çibörek, the city's Crimean Tatar pastry
A thin half-moon pastry with raw mince sealed inside, fried in seconds so the meat steams in its own juice — eat it with your hands and lean forward.
Balaban, met helvası and the rest of the Eskişehir table
Meatballs on butter-soaked bread under tomato and yogurt, a pulled halva that isn't the tahini kind, and a simit with its own protected name.
For Free
The painted timber houses of Odunpazarı
A hill of ochre, blue and rose Ottoman houses with their upper floors leaning over the lanes — the town Eskişehir grew out of, and still the first walk.
Kurşunlu, the meerschaum museum and the carvers of Atlıhan
A sixteenth-century mosque complex under lead domes, and the soft white stone the city carves into pipes.
The Porsuk: footbridges, boats and the riverside evening
A slow river through the middle of town, crossed by a dozen footbridges, with tour boats, gondolas and half the city walking beside it after dark.
Sazova Park and the fairy-tale castle
A castle of 26 towers, a pirate ship on a lake, a Japanese garden and a zoo — the city's weekend park, unashamedly playful.
Escape the Crowds
A sand beach in the middle of Anatolia
Three hundred and fifty metres of real sea sand, a lake, an Olympic pool and sunloungers — hours from the nearest coast.
Seyitgazi and Midas City: a Phrygian Valley day
A hilltop Seljuk shrine to a legendary warrior, then a seventeen-metre temple façade the Phrygians carved into a cliff for their mother goddess.
Sivrihisar's forest of wooden columns
Sixty-seven wooden columns holding up a Seljuk mosque on the Ankara road — Eskişehir's first UNESCO World Heritage listing.
Beyond the Obvious
Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM)
Kengo Kuma's stack of timber boxes in the middle of the Ottoman quarter — a serious contemporary art museum in a city of students.
Hamamyolu and the hot-water baths
A long pedestrian park strip over the city's hot springs, with old neighbourhood hamams on either side — the centre's everyday evening walk.
A night with the city symphony or the City Theatres
A municipal orchestra and a theatre company that fill their halls all season — Eskişehir's culture-city reputation, earned on stage.
The Yılmaz Büyükerşen Wax Museum
Two hundred wax figures, most of them sculpted by the city's own long-serving mayor — gloriously odd and very Eskişehir.
The Devrim car, Turkey's first homemade automobile
The car railway engineers built in about four and a half months in 1961 — and the story of the hundred metres that made it famous.
Eskişehir by season
The year changes what's worth doing.
Autumn
NowStill warm, much quieter.Find your people
Clubs for what you love
Sailing, hiking, brunch, live music — communities around every experience.
Explore clubs →Do it together
Experience it at a Smileys event
Sailing, dinners, walks, live music — organized and waiting.
Browse events →Right now
Someone's probably doing it today
Spontaneous coffees, walks and plans — join a hangout.
See hangouts →Understand Eskişehir
Residence permits, banking, transport, quick links — the Handbook.
Read the Handbook →Find what you need
Cafés, restaurants, services — member-vetted businesses.
Browse the Directory →Visiting first?
Post your dates — locals reach out.
Settling in?
The Handbook — long-form how-tos.
Planning a season?
Experiences — seasonal picks & series.
Neighborhoods
The hill of restored Ottoman timber houses — Kurşunlu Mosque, glass workshops and the Odunpazarı Modern Museum
Hamamyolu's long park strip with the old thermal baths, the centre's evening walk
The south bank of the Porsuk in the middle of town — riverside cafés, footbridges, the tourist boats
Across the river on the Tepebaşı side — Barlar Sokağı and the centre's late nights
Bağlar — the tram stop, Espark mall, student flats between the centre and Anadolu University
Anadolu University's Yunus Emre campus and the student streets around it