Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
TRAVEL FROM UZHHOROD TO HUNGARY & SLOVAKIA
Chop, 22km west of Uzhhorod and 44km northwest of Mukacheve, is the interna-
tional rail crossing between Ukraine and Hungary or Slovakia. Here, the broader
Ukrainian rail gauge meets the narrower standard gauge of central Europe, and
there's a delay of anything between one and three hours while your train's car-
riages are lifted in the air and onto different bogies.
Trains affected are long-distance services like the Budapest-Moscow or Ky-
iv-Bratislava, but half the time these delays occur barely noticed in the wee hours.
The other half of the time, you could use the delay as an excuse to break your jour-
ney in Uzhhorod or Mukacheve. As Chop is treated as the last stop on the Hungari-
an rail system, several additional services (eg Budapest-Chop, Bratislava-Chop)
originate from and terminate at its station.
On services heading west from Kyiv and Lviv, domestic trains stop at Chop be-
fore reaching Uzhhorod; international services don't stop at Uzhhorod at all (think
of it as being on a little rail appendix).
The quickest way between Chop and Uzhhorod is to take a marshrutka(fixed-
route minibus). It's also possible to catch buses from Uzhhorod to Hungary and
Slovakia.
Getting There & Away
AIR
Uzhhorod's 'international'
airport
( vul Sobranetska 145)
, 1.5km northwest of the city
centre, has just one flight daily to/from Kyiv's Zhulyany airport (1000uah, 1¾ hours) op-
BUS
There are long-distance buses to Lviv (93uah, 6½ hours, up to 12 daily). Services also
run to Rakhiv (80uah, three hours, 11 daily) and Mukacheve (16uah, one hour, every 15
to 20 minutes).
Marshrutka
145 goes to Chop (10uah, 50 minutes, every 15 minutes) from the side of
the bus station facing the train station. Cross-border buses link Uzhhorod most usefully
ates overnight services to Prague (644uah, 14 hours).
TRAIN
Trains to and from Western Europe don't stop in Uzhhorod; you must go to nearby Chop.
