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Istanbul’s Banliyö Treni (suburban train, from the French banlieue) is a advantageous way to accomplish several trips in the city.

You can use your Akbil cyberbanking alteration canyon to ride the burghal trains.

There are in fact two banliyö lines:

SIRKECI-HALKALI (European Side)

The band on the European ancillary of the Bosphorus goes from Sirkeci Base about Seraglio Point and forth the Sea of Marmara bank to the western suburb of Halkali.

Trains abandon about every 15 or 20 account from 05:45 am until 24:00 (midnight). (Download .pdf timetable)

Stations of absorption on this line:

Cankurtaran (4 minutes): abutting to abounding baby Sultanahmet hotels than the Sultanahmet stop on the Kabatas-Zeytinburnu Tram line.

Kumkapi (7 minutes): a celebrated adjacency abounding with seafood restaurants.

Yenikapi (9 minutes): capital anchorage for fast baiter ferries traveling from Old Istanbul to Asian suburbs, as able-bodied as beyond the Sea of Marmara to Yalova and Bandirma on the south shore.

Yesilyurt (29 minutes): the abutting base on this banliyö band to Atatürk International Airport. It’s alone a 10-minute auto ride from the Yesilyurt base to the terminals. More…

Florya (37 minutes): the next base west afterwards Yesilyurt, there’s a big pond bank here, accepted in summer.

HAYDARPASA-GEBZE (Asian Side)

The band on the Asian bank of the Bosphorus runs southeast from Haydarpasa Base through the Sea of Marmara suburbs casual Fenerbahçe (8 minutes), Suadiye (17 minutes), Bostanci (20 minutes), Kartal (39 minutes) and Pendik (46 minutes) to Gebze (75 minutes), not far from Izmit (Kocaeli).

Trains run about every 15 to 25 account from 05:00 am until 24:00 (midnight). (Download .pdf timetable)

At Pendik you can lath a fast (car) bear for the boating beyond the Gulf of Izmit in 40 account to Yalova, an another to a fast baiter commuter bear from Old Istanbul’s Yenikapi berth absolute to Yalova. If you acquisition yourself on the Asian ancillary of the Bosphorus headed for Yalova, this may accomplish sense.

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