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Istanbul’s Teutonic pseudo-castle railway base on the Asian bank of the Bosphorus is the abuttals for trains to and from Asian Turkey, including the all-important Istanbul-Ankara route, as able-bodied as trains to Kayseri, Konya, and credibility east and south.

Haydarpasa Base has admission sales offices, a rather addled cat-and-mouse room, shops affairs drinks and snacks, Left Luggage/Baggage lockers, and a archetypal railroad restaurant, the Gar Lokantasi, alms appropriate acceptable Turkish cuisine and drinks at reasonable rates. A three-course banquet with one alcohol charge bulk no added than YTL18. A ablaze meal can be had for YTL10.

Clientele in the Gar Lokantasi is a assembly of bounded audience rather than travelers, 95% male, chatting over meze and glasses of raki. It’s a aged scene. Women are absolutely welcome. There’s a fair bulk of cigarette smoke. The waiters yield acceptable affliction of everybody.

Ferries from Karaköy (Galata), at the arctic end of the Galata Bridge, cantankerous the Bosphorus frequently to Haydarpasa and Kadiköy. Most ferries stop at both docks. Any bear appointed Haydarpasa stops appropriate at the station’s own bear dock. If you end up in Kadiköy by mistake, it’s alone a abrupt auto ride or 15-minute airing arctic to the station.

Suburban trains (banliyö treni) abandon Haydarpasa and biking southeast forth the Sea of Marmara bank as far as Gebze, not far from Izmit. More…

The neoclassical Haydarpasa Base building, a allowance to the Sultan from Kaiser Wilhelm II, was congenital by the Anatolia-Baghdad Corporation amid 1906 and 1908. Its foundation is 1100 lath piles, anniversary 21 meters (69 feet) long, apprenticed into the doughy bank by beef hammer.

Haydarpasa was an important hotlink in the railway alternation of the Kaiser’s Berlin-to-Baghdad railway scheme, allotment of the German Empire’s cardinal Drang nach Osten (”Drive to the East”) during the after 19th century.

If you’re a alternation buff, yield the bear from Europe over to the base in Asia, aberrate around, again lath the next bear aback to Karaköy. The intercontinental boating will bulk beneath than YTL3.

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