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Tashkent State Circus: The Dome, Animals, Shows & Tickets
Tashkent State Circus: why the 1976 flying-saucer dome is the city's best Soviet building, what the 2025 animal ban means, show times and ticket prices.
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Monuments, bazaars, museums and day trips, with ticket prices, opening hours and how long to allow.
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Tashkent Railway Museum: Locomotives, Tickets, Hours
Tashkent Railway Museum: the 1914 Ov-1534, a P36 and a German Kriegslok beside the main station, plus hours, closed days and what tickets cost now.
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State History Museum of Uzbekistan: Tashkent Visitor Guide
Tashkent's State Museum of History reopened in July 2026: the Fayaz Tepa Buddha, Kushan and Timurid rooms, new hours, the 100,000 som ticket and the metro.
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Alay Bazaar Tashkent: Smaller, Pricier, Easier Than Chorsu
Alay Bazaar on Amir Temur: how it compares with Chorsu on price and crowds, the dried fruit and nut rows, Korean salads, hours, and the nearest metro.
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Japanese Garden Tashkent: Tickets, Hours and Worth It?
Tashkent's Japanese Garden in 2026: the 30,000 som ticket, hours, the tea pavilion and wedding shoots, the POW story, and whether it's worth the taxi.
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Tashkent Broadway: Sayilgoh Street's Painters and Stalls
Tashkent Broadway (Sayilgoh Street): what a street portrait costs, when it's liveliest, the 2026 rebuild plan and the paperwork to take a painting home.
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Amir Timur Square: The Statue That Keeps Changing
Kaufman, Stalin, a giant Marx head, then Timur: who stood on Tashkent's central plinth, the Timur museum's hours and exhibits, and what else is around.
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Independence Square Tashkent: Storks, Memorial, History
What the storks on the Ezgulik arch mean, where Lenin stood, finding the Mourning Mother, and what you can't photograph on Tashkent's main square.
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Navoi Opera and Ballet Theatre, Tashkent: Visitor Guide
Tashkent's Navoi Opera Theatre: the Japanese POW plaque, Shchusev's six regional foyers, 2026 ticket prices, dress rules and the metro stop to avoid.
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Minor Mosque Tashkent: The White Marble Mosque Guide
Minor Mosque in Tashkent: opened 1 October 2014, 38 m minarets, white marble. Where the name comes from, non-Muslim dress rules and the best metro stop.