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Ankara's main
bus terminal, AŞTİ, is a mammoth building southwest
of the city center
(map),
with hundreds of buses roaring
in and out every hour on routes to all
cities and large towns in Turkey.
AŞTİ is
an acronym for Ankara Şehirlerarası
Terminal İşletmesi (Ankara Intercity
Terminal Administration)—so
you can see why everyone prefers to
call it AŞTİ (AHSH-tee;
or Terminal, TEHR-mee-NAHL).
Here's how to buy bus tickets
in Turkey.
Here's how to travel between
Ankara and Cappadocia.
Services at AŞTİ include
ticket offices (yazıhane),
snack stands, restaurants, pastry shops,
book stalls, telephone stations, bank
ATMs, toilets, showers, Internet cafés,
amusements, a mescit (small
mosque),
and two Emanetçi (Left
Luggage/Baggage Check) counters (on
the lower level).
AŞTİ has its own
Ankaray metro/underground train station, with a covered passage
connecting the terminal and the station.
Dozens of companies operate frequent
buses to Istanbul.
Here are Turkey's
top bus companies.
For buses to Cappadocia,
go to ticket office
No.
50 (Nevşehir
Turizm).
The airport bus from Esenboğa
Airport begins
and ends its route at AŞTİ,
passing the Ankara
Gar (railway station)
on the way to and from the airport.
The AŞTİ
website is
only in Turkish. Here's how to use
it:
—Intercity Distances:
click the Ulaşım
Bilgileri button on
the left-hand side, then select your
departure and destination cities
from the drop-down
menus on the line
that reads like this:
(06) Ankara ile (01)
Adana ile arasındaki mesafe
489 Kilometredir.
You'll see the distance between the
two cities.
—Bus Companies: do the same thing
on the line just below it to see which
companies operate between two cities:
Kalkış Yeri: Ankara Gideceğiniz Şehir: Adana
After you select a destination city,
a new
page will appear with these columns:
Saat = Departure Time
Firmanın Adı =
Bus Company Name
Gideceği Yer = Destination
Yazıhane No = Ticket Office Number
Peron = Gate (departure point)
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