Sighisoara Transportation

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Sighisoara is about 5 hours from Bucharest and about 8 hours from Budapest in Hungary. The same trains to Budapest will sometimes take you as far as Vienna. But apart from that it's mostly local traffic, and a few express trains to major Romanian cities like Brasov and Timisoara. The nearest major city of Tirgu Mures doesn't have good rail connections with Sighisoara.

The station is a little out of town, and about a 10-15 minute walk from the citadel. The walk is pleasant and the station is clean and safe, despite some stories I'd heard about it. One story related a dodgy character hanging around and approaching arriving guests, another told of how there was no sign on the station and the almost missed it. I didn't have any problems at all and there were plenty of officious looking staff on hand to deal with problems.

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Trains from Bucharest take 4 to 5 hours to cover the 294 km journey to Sighisoara. A second class ticket costs around 38 lei each way, depending on which type of train you travel on. There are currently eight trains per day each way, with the earliest departing Bucharest's Gara de Nord at 06:08 and the last train leaving at 23:30.

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We took the regular train to Sighasoara. At the time, the express train didn't go there. We met a Romanian man who had just returned from living in the USA for 10 years. In addition the vendors on the train added to the adventure. I really enjoyed the train ride.
To get into the walled city you have to climb stairs. Or you can hire a taxi (I prefer walking). But the walk from the train to the city was unexpected (with luggage).

All trains departing from Bucharest Gara de Nord arriving Sighisoara.

R374 6:08 - 10:42
A1748 7:08 - 12:09
IC525 12:30 - 16:51
IC531 13:30 - 17:47
IC533 16:30 - 20:43
R346 16:50 - 21:04
R370 18:30 - 23:06
R741 18:30 - 23:06
A1741 19:30 - 00:13
R633 22:30 - 02:56

this pic is the main avenue of the city or almost where the train station and bus station is... everywhere is at hand dont be worry about cabs or whatever... as much you can rent a bycicle i guess its a good point
if you see this pic there is a "bar" on the top where you can behold the whole city... look into my page for the view when we stayed there after a treeking across the mountain ..a beautiful and green one

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There are several sort of trains some faster and other slowers but in Romania likr IC (intercity) the fastest, euronights both with a compulsory reservation in advance, and also Accelerat and Rapid.. the most usual trains and slowers at the same time where you meet locals easily (so friendly people) and easy as well to enjoy with landscapes ...slower cos stops in all stations in its route

Among Cluj and Sighisoara there is 203 kms and the fastest train takes 3hours the price is around 33 LEI so 11 or 12 euros...really expensive....
Transportation in eastern europe is the most expensive stuff once you want to travel there and waste money !! so use your mind

I took my ticket trains through Sighisoara at 14h after some troubles with cues and people not much polite, or maybe i was wrong lol
Well it was really weird to get tickets (cardboards) like those...3 in 1..i figured out that each one is a fare counted by Km and sort of train...
The journey was good and i could understand some of the speech of my romanian "companions" on the compartment cos romanian is quite similar to latin languages,,,actually is a roman heritage... and one of them (a moldavian guy) talk a good english and he was explaining me sth of Sighisoara and whatever you can talk in a train ...about cultural differences about or people, countires, money, style of life .....and so on...really amazing
You can see in this how many prejudices we (westerns) have against romanians and bulgarians and others!! wow such a beautifull people and normal lifes they get ...they dont look so different to us !!! at all !!

Sighisoara is on the main line that runs border to border across Romania, making it v. easy to get to. Other popular destinations like Brasov, Sinaia and Medias are on the same line (as is Bucharest) and trains are cheap, regular and reliable. There are 4 types of trains in service; the newest is the inter-city service, slightly faster than the accelerat and rapid and a bit more expensive. The cheapest option are the personal trains, but they are very slow and stop every few kilometres. In terms of journey times there isn't much difference between the accelerat, rapid and inter-city services. From Sighisoara you can also take overnight trains to Budapest and Sofia, or beyond to Vienna and Istanbul.