Art Hostel

Tashkent

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This sociable hostel sets the bar high for Tashkent's budget accommodation. The pine fresh rooms and shared bathrooms are spotlessly clean and the clued-in owners understand backpacker needs, from individual bed lights and lockers to cheap laundry, luggage storage, female-only dorms and a shared kitchen. There are tapchans (bedlike platforms) and hammocks for socialising and even a plunge pool to beat the summer heat.

The hostel can also arrange letters of invitation (US$50) and will pre-book train tickets.

Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

  • The State Museum of History of Uzbekistan in Tashkent.

    History Museum of the People of Uzbekistan

    0.95 MILES

    The History Museum is a must-visit for anyone looking for a primer on the history of Turkestan from its earliest settlements 5000 years ago to the present…

  • People shop in the meat section of the Chorsu Bazaar in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

    Chorsu Bazaar

    2.41 MILES

    Tashkent’s most famous farmers market, topped by a giant green dome, is a delightful slice of city life spilling into the streets off the Old Town’s…

  • Museum of Applied Arts of Tashkent.

    Museum of Applied Arts

    0.22 MILES

    The Museum of Applied Arts occupies an exquisite house full of bright ghanch (carved and painted plaster) and carved wood. It was built in the 1930s, at…

  • State Fine Arts Museum

    State Fine Arts Museum

    0.83 MILES

    The four floors of this excellent museum walk you through 1500 years of art in Uzbekistan, from 7th-century Buddhist relics from Kuva and the Greek…

  • Earthquake Memorial

    Earthquake Memorial

    1.82 MILES

    The New Soviet men and women who rebuilt Tashkent after the 1966 earthquake are remembered in stone at the Earthquake Memorial just north of Mustaqilik…

  • View of Hazrati Imam Mosque and Muyi Muborak Madrasah (Moyie Mubarek Library Museum) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

    Moyie Mubarek Library Museum

    2.89 MILES

    The primary attraction of Khast Imom square is this library museum, which houses the 7th-century Osman Quran (Uthman Quran), said to be the world’s oldest…

  • Minor Mosque, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

    Minor Mosque

    2.69 MILES

    The striking new Minor Mosque, also known as the white mosque for the colour of its marble, is proof that Uzbekistan still knows how to create sublime…

  • Entrance to Assumption Cathedral in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

    Assumption Cathedral

    1 MILES

    It's impossible to miss the handsome gold onion domes, pastel blue walls and 50m bell tower of the impressive Assumption Cathedral. Built in 1958 and…

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Nearby Tashkent attractions

1. Museum of Applied Arts

0.22 MILES

The Museum of Applied Arts occupies an exquisite house full of bright ghanch (carved and painted plaster) and carved wood. It was built in the 1930s, at…

2. State Fine Arts Museum

0.83 MILES

The four floors of this excellent museum walk you through 1500 years of art in Uzbekistan, from 7th-century Buddhist relics from Kuva and the Greek…

4. Assumption Cathedral

1 MILES

It's impossible to miss the handsome gold onion domes, pastel blue walls and 50m bell tower of the impressive Assumption Cathedral. Built in 1958 and…

5. Wedding Palace

1.1 MILES

Southeast of the Friendship Palace is the Soviet-era Wedding Palace – a vulgar, crooked chunk of Khrushchev-era concrete.

6. Senate Building

1.1 MILES

The shiny white edifice on the western side of the Independence Square is the Senate building. The president's office and most ministries take up the…

7. Alisher Navoi Monument

1.17 MILES

Near the Oliy Majlis in Navoi Park is a vast promenade and this post-Soviet Monument to Alisher Navoi, 15th-century Turkic poet and Uzbekistan's newly…

8. Romanov Palace

1.19 MILES

The animal-festooned brick facade of the Tsarist-era Romanov Palace is worth a quick look but the building itself is closed to the public.