GETTING TO KOÇ UNIVERSITY Arriving from Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport Sabiha Gökçen Airport is located on the Anatolian shore of Istanbul at Pendik / Kurtkoy, at a distance of 70 km from Koç University main campus and 50 km to Taksim. You can get to Taksim from Sabiha Gökçen Airport using: 2. Taxi 3. Bus More information can be found here: http://www.sgairport.com/havaalani/eng/ulasim.asp Havaş is a bus system which runs buses specifically to and from the airport to the main points of the city center. Upon arriving in Sabiha Gökçen Airport, you may choose to use the Havaş bus which operates from the front of the Arrivals terminal. There are three different locations that Havaş operates to. You will be going to Taksim (as seen on the map). Your final destination (where our campus is), marked on the map with a big red circle is in Sarıyer. Therefore from Taksim you may choose to take a taxi, bus or the metro. The Havaş bus costs 13 TL (approximately $7) to Taksim. For more information and timetables of Havaş please visit: www.havas.net/en
2. Taxi From Sabiha Gökçen you can also use private taxis. Taxi's are available outside the terminal. Then it can be rather expensive if you intend travelling all the way to central Đstanbul. Cars are available on request. (Phone number: +90 216 588 00 35-36) 3. Bus A public bus operates from Sabiha Gökçen Airport in front of the Arrivals section which takes you to 4. Levent. The bus is E-3 and will take you to 4. Levent, which is the final stop of the E-3 bus line. From 4. Levent you can either take the metro to Darüşşafaka, or take a taxi. Here is the timetable of the E-3 bus:
Arriving from Istanbul Atatürk Airport Atatürk Airport is located in Yeşilköy, on the European side of İstanbul. Airport distance is 28 km to Taksim and 68km from our university campus. There are various modes of getting to Taksim from Atatürk Airport: 2. Metro 3. Taxi 4. Bus More information can be found here: http://www.ataturkairport.com/en- EN/Transportation/Pages/AirportTrasnportation.aspx Havaş is a bus system which runs buses specifically to and from the airport to the main points of the city center. Upon arriving in Atatürk Airport, you may choose to use the Havaş bus which operates from the front of the Arrivals terminal. There are three different locations that Havaş operates to. You will be going to Taksim (as seen on the map). Your final destination, marked on the map (with a red star) is in Sarıyer. Therefore, from Taksim, you may choose to take a taxi, bus or the metro.
The Havaş bus costs 10 TL (approx. $6) to Taksim. For more information and timetables visit: www.havas.net/en 2. Metro Atatürk Airport is linked to the Istanbul metro system. Upon arriving in the airport you will follow the signs which will lead you to the metro. The metro runs from: Weekdays: 6:00 am-00:15 am Saturdays: 6:00 am-00:15 am Sundays 6:25 am-00:15 am Below is the map of the Istanbul Metro System (or see the link http://www.istanbululasim.com.tr/images/raylisistemler.jpg) As you can see the final stop for the Airport line is Aksaray. From Aksaray you may choose to take a taxi, which will cost approximately 60 TL (approx. $35), or you can: a. Take the T1 line to Kabataş and then use F1 to get to Taksim. Please visit point 5a for how to get to the campus from Taksim. Please note that to interchange from Aksaray to the T1 line there is a long walk which could be inefficient, especially if you have baggage.
3. Taxi Airport Taxi The airport taxi firm offers a transfer service which can be arranged before your arrival. As the International Office we would prefer if you used this service. You pay the amount on the taxi meter, with no additional charge for booking a taxi and greeting you at the arrivals terminal. Below is the contact information of the transfer service, you can call in advance and book your taxi. The service will greet you at the arrivals lounge and direct you to the taxi: Atatürk Airport Taxi Transfer Service: +90 535 491 9827 Website: http://www.havalimanitaksi.com/site/transfer.html The taxi fare is approximately 70 TL (approx. $45) from Atatürk Airport to the Koç University campus. If anything goes wrong regarding your transfer, there will be a number of taxis in front of the Arrivals Terminal which you can use for a similar price. 4. Bus A public bus operates from Atatürk Airport in front of the Arrivals section and takes you to Taksim. The bus line is 96T and operates between 07.00 and 21.00 approximately every 40 minutes. Coming to campus from Taksim As noted, Taksim is the transportation center for Istanbul. Therefore, many of the previous alternatives will take you to Taksim. From Taksim you again have various options: Taxi Bus Metro i. You may choose to take the taxi from Taksim directly to our campus. Providing the driver with the address will be enough. It will cost about 45 TL (approx. $25). ii. If you choose to take a bus, you will use line 25T which will take you to Sarıyer. However, our campus is not in Sarıyer center, so from there you may take a taxi or use a dolmuş (minibus). Dolmuş operate across the street from the Sarıyer Cultural Center. The Dolmuş you want to use will have Koç University written on its front sign. Details about bus times can be found at: http://harita.iett.gov.tr/en/ iii. If you choose to use the metro from Taksim you will get off at the Darüşşafaka station. From there you may take a taxi to our campus, which is around 20 TL (approx. $12), or you can walk to the main street and wait for a dolmuş which will take you to Sarıyer. From Sarıyer you will need to transfer to another dolmuş across the street of the Sarıyer Cultural Center.