Subway in Tashkent
This is a very easy way to get around the city. You’ll problably never wait more than 5 minutes for a train and the stations are quite clean and quite safe. To go in you have to pass a metal detector. For backpackers like me, a huge backpack will be very confusion. They need to check your bag to see if you have some bomb. The Subway in Tashkent was design to be a bomb shelter and nuclear shelter so no pictures are alowed inside. There are 3 main lines for subway in the city: red line, blue line and green line. The Uzbekistan and the Chilanzar, and the third under construction (the green one).
The cost of a ticket is 15SUM and system runs until 5am to 12pm.
Tashkent’s subway is the one and only in Central Asia so people seem quite proud of it. Actually Its quite nice and fast. I’ve never took such a fast metro before, nor NYC, Berlin, Paris, Lisbon, Madrid, no, the fastest so far was in Central Asia?!
For a map on Tashkent subway map please click on the following link:
